For me, it's about the desire to win. My audience becomes a crowd of wild animals and I have to be the lion-tamer or be eaten.

-Connolly, Billy
Quoted in Pamela Stephenson Billy (2001).

We really win if we win. But we may even win if we lose.

-Dole, Bob (RobertJoseph)
  On the prospect of gaining popularity by reintroducing a balanced budget amendment. In the NewYork Times, 2 Mar.

Some time, Rock, when the team's up against it, when things are wrong and the breaks are beating the boys^tell themtogo intherewith all they'vegot and win just one for the Gipper.

-Gipp, George
  Last words, to coach Knute Rockne. Rockne told the team about Gipp's request in1928, when their fortunes were low, and inspired the squad to new efforts.'Win one for the Gipper' subsequently became a catchphrase throughout US sport.

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!

-Hawthorne, Nathaniel
  The Scarlet Letter, ch.15.

   When in doubt, win the trick.

-Hoyle, Edmond
A Short Treatise on the Game of  Whist (first published1742, this edn edited by Charles  Jones,1790). This may be an addition by Jones.

She canoverpower, astonish, afflict, but she cannot win; her majestic presence and commanding features seem to disregard love, as a trifle to which they cannot descend.

-Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh
  Of Sarah Siddons. Critical Essays on the Performers of the London Theatres.

Christiansarenotcalledtowinbattles,buttofindways of being in battles.

-Jenkins, David Edward
  Spirituality for Conflict.

My thanks to you allöand now it's on to Chicago, and let's win there.

-Kennedy, Robert F(rancis)
  Last public remark after winning the Californian primary for the Democratic presidential nomination in Los  Angeles, before being assassinated as he left the rally, 4  Jun.

You're never too bad to win.

-McElligott,Tom (ThomasJames)
  In the Wall Street Journal, 26 Mar.

When you win, nothing hurts.

-Namath,JoeWillie (JosephWilliam)
Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

Pesons le gain et la perte, en prenant croix que Dieu est. Estimons ces deux cas: si vous gagnez, vous gagnez tout; si vous perdez, vous ne perdez rien.Gagezdonc qu'il est, sans he¤  siter. Let us weigh up the gain and loss involved in calling heads that God exists. Let us assess thetwo cases: if you winyou win everything, if you lose you lose nothing.Do not hesitate then; wager that he does exist.

-Pascal, Blaise
c.1654^1662  Pense¤  es, no.233 (translated byA Krailsheimer).

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, öDrawing no dividend from time's to-morrows. In the great hour of destiny they stand, öEach with his feuds, and jealousies, and sorrows. Soldiers are sworn to action; they must win öSome flaming, fatal climax with their lives. Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin öThey think of firelit homes, clean beds and wives.

-Sassoon, Siegfried Louvain
  'Dreamers'.

   'And everybody praised the Duke, Who this great fight did win.' 'But what good came of it at last?' Quoth little Peterkin. 'Why that I cannot tell,'said he, 'But 'twas a famous victory.'

-Southey, Robert
  'The Battle of Blenheim'.

To win inVietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.

-Spock, Dr Benjamin McLane
  Dr Spock onVietnam, ch.7.

There's three things you can do in a baseball game^you can win, you can lose, or it can rain.

-Stengel, Casey (Charles Dillon)
Quoted in ColinJarmanThe Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upwardly- mobileöand the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely.We owe that to ourselves and our crippled self-image as something better than a nation of panicked sheep.

-Thompson, Hunter S(tockton)
  The Great Shark Hunt,'Jacket Copy for Fear and Loathing in LasVegas'.

   Have you ever noticed how we only win the World Cup under a Labour government?

-Wilson of Rievaulx, (James) Harold Wilson, Baron
Quoted in Peter Ball and Phil ShawThe Book of Football Quotations (1989).

My doctor forbids me to play, unless I win.

-Woollcott, Alexander Humphreys
Of croquet. Quoted in ColinJarmanThe Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).