The novel wins by points, the short story by knockout.
The objective is to win: fairly, squarely, decently, win by the rules, but still win.
Does anybody in this room really believe that [I win]? Give me a break.
The difference between winning nineteen games and winning twenty for a pitcher is bigger than anyone out of baseball realizes. It's the same for hitters - someone who hits. 300 looks back on the guy who batted. 295 and says 'tough luck buddy.
Can't win without talent, you know.
Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.
I didn't respond, because naked people never win arguments.
Did you ever admire an empty-headed writer for his or her mastery of the language? No. So your own winning style must begin with ideas in your head.
It's an honor to win a Grammy, of course.
The bad thing about the Bushwhackers is that win, lose, or draw, you gotta have everything you got on fumigated.
I'd rather just stay quiet and play the game. Winning is hard enough as it is.
Winning is everything.
I spin around on the swivel chair and look up at the ceiling; Oliver being Oliver being Oliver being Oliver. I am suddenly aware of the separation between my-actual-self and myself-as-seen-by-others. Who would win in an arm wrestle? Who is better-looking? Who has the higher IQ?
You are just a murdered. (Near) (btw this was an epic win on near's part when light spazzed out and went crazy)
I support our democracy. And sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.
A few people have said I should let you win
He who does not hope to win has already lost.
The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness.
To become a token woman--whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your sisters--is to become something less than a mansince men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.
You can't win an argument. You can't because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it.