“But coming close wasn't the same as winning, was it? … He had won because winners won and everyone else just went home.”

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novelist 1965

Richard Yates book Revolutionary Road

Source: Revolutionary Road

“Pompey had fought brilliantly and in the end routed Caesar's whole force… but either he was unable to or else he feared to push on. Caesar [said] to his friends: 'Today the enemy would have won, if they had had a commander who was a winner.”

Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher

The Life of Pompey

“When a war is won, it's the losers, not the winners, who are liberated.”

Romain Gary book Tulipe

Tulipe (1946)

“Oh the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all.”

Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books

Source: Oh, The Places You’ll Go!

“Your mother won a special reward," she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded.”

Sarah Dessen book Dreamland

Source: Dreamland

“Death had won my three friends; Death had almost won me. But now I was the one who was going to win and I was going to win by outwitting Death over and over again … To compete with Death, as I had discovered in the mountains, was to know one was alive.”

Susan Howatch book The Wheel of Fortune

The Wheel of Fortune (1984), Part 1: Robert

“Unhappy writer, you had dreamt of winning souls and you have won nothing but ears!”

Léon Bloy (1846–1917) French writer, poet and essayist

Source: Pilgrim of the Absolute (1947), p. 36

“We had won many trophies before and after that like the team under MSD are winning now. But the joy of that day is something different. May be because it was the first time we had won the coveted World Cup. Each year for these 30 years, I start receiving phone calls and texts from the night of June 24 the way I receive the same for my birthday!”

Kapil Dev (1959) Indian cricketer

Kapil Dev: 30 years on, I can still recall India World Cup victory

“A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.”

Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

“I wasn't expecting him to be a gracious, so fair enough. The winner can say anything when he wins… so I guess we will just have to swallow it for now.”

Viswanathan Anand (1969) Indian chess player

2013 World Chess Championship

“But coming close wasn't the same as winning, was it? … He had won because winners won and everyone else just went home.”

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