Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.
She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.
If we'd kept a clean sheet tonight we'd have won 1-0.
If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen.
I have won elections and I have lost elections.
The slow boat-I know it's the slow boat because I've been watching them for thirty-three weeks-won the first piece by a full length. Then the fast boat won the second piece. And so it went for the next four pieces, back and forth. Conclusion: I hate seat racing.
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.
I hold 'Mi Tierra,' my first Spanish-language album, very close to me because that was all done in my native tongue and won me my first Grammy.
The mind can be convinced, but the heart must be won.
I was afraid the teacher was going to make me read in front of class and I was going to look bad. [But] if I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily. And I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.
In case you're wondering why Guy Fieri is here, he won a contest.
The battle for women's rights has been largely won.
I won the family lottery. I come from the best family in the world.
suicide is the ultimate 'one-up,' as it were, the accusation that brooks no defense, the argument won at last.
If I play badly I'll pick a fight in the third, just to get into a fight. I'll break a guy's leg to win, I don't care. Afterward I say, 'Yeah all right I played badly, but I won the fight so who gives a damn.
Before my commercial success, I had difficulty doing what I wanted, but my sincere short films always won prizes in festivals. So I was ready for larger successes.
It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me.
Anybody who imagines that an election can be won under these circumstances by banging on about William Ayers and Jeremiah Wright is. . . to put it mildly. . . severely under-estimating the electoral importance of pocketbook issues. We conservatives are sending a powerful, inadvertent message with this negative campaign against Barack Obama's associations and former associations: that we lack a positive agenda of our own and that we don't care about the economic issues that are worrying American voters.
Donald Trump insisted yesterday that he is not racist, because one time an African-American won Apprentice. Because nothing says 'not racist' like making a black man run your errands.
Ranieri? He's right in what he says: I am very demanding of myself and I need to win to be secure about things. That's why I've won so many trophies in my career. He, on the other hand, has the mentality of someone who doesn't need to win and at nearly 70 years old he has won a Supercoppa and another small cup. He's too old to change his mindset.