Quotes · Skopia

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Play · Tragicomedy

To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory.

Pierre Corneille

Le Cid · 1636

★ 6.9

Personal journal

As always, victory will have a hundred fathers, but defeat will never be acknowledged by anyone at all.

1942

★ 6.9

Press conference

You play to win the game.

2002

★ 6.2

Winning isn’t everything...It’s the only thing.

Henry R. "Red" Sanders

1948

★ 6.0

Historical literature

Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.

117 BC

★ 3.7

Film · Sports (film) · Sports comedy (film) · Sports comedy · Sports

Sometimes when you win, you really lose, and sometimes when you lose, you really win, and sometimes when you win or lose, you actually tie, and sometimes when you tie, you actually win or lose.

Gloria Clemente

White Men Can't Jump · 1992

★ 3.7

Interview · Magazine

Nobody cares about the bronze or silver medals.

2010

★ 3.7

Film · Biography (film) · Biography

I hate losing more than I even want to win.

Moneyball · 2011

★ 2.2

Film · Sports (film) · Biography (film) · Sports · Biography

If you win, you win. If you lose, you still win. There's no way you can lose.

Raging Bull · 1980

★ 2.0

Film · Sports (film) · Drama (film) · Sports · Drama

We're in the business of winning.

Coach Gary Gaines

Friday Night Lights · 2004

★ 2.0

Film · Biography (film) · War (film) · Biography · War

Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost and will never lose a war. Because the very thought of losing is hateful to Americans.

General George S. Patton

Patton · 1969

★ 1.9

The important thing in life is not the victory but the contest; the essential thing is not to have won but to have fought well.

Baron Pierre de Coubertin

1908

★ 1.8