— Dan Patrick American sportscaster 1956
Catch Phrases
Source: http://www.rankopedia.com/Favorite-ESPN-SportsCenter-Catchphrase---Basketball/CandidateData/18582/.htm
„Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.“
Source: Jordan, Michael. I Can't Accept Not Trying : Michael Jordan on the Pursuit of Excellence. San Francisco, CA: HarperSanFrancisco, 1994. p. 129
Context: I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying [no hard work].
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. (p. 20, 24)
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— Jerome Bettis Former American football running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers 1972
Bettis announcing his retirement following the Steelers’ Super Bowl victory in his hometown of Detroit (February 5, 2006http://www.hwwilson.com/_home/bios/1992060806.htm
„After winning MMA world championship, I will be retired to professional sports.“
— Reza Goodary Mixed martial artist 1988
Source: One of the factors of my success has been and is away from the margins of sports. After winning MMA world championship, I will be retired to professional sports. https://www.borna.news/fa/tiny/news-1256573 BORNA News, (November 4, 2021)
„The game itself is bigger than the winning.“
— Dejan Stojanovic poet, writer, and businessman 1959
“Game II,” p. 97
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “A Game”
„The Silicon Valley culture is "I can win and you can win" - it isn't a sum-zero game.“
— Steve Blank American businessman 1953
Interview with Steve Blank (2013)
— Michael Jordan American retired professional basketball player and businessman 1963
Hall of Fame induction address, 2009 http://www.nba.com/bulls/news/jordanhof_speech_090912.html
„It's important that you win games at any level.“
— Phil Brown (footballer) English association football player and manager 1959
27-Feb-2009, Hull Daily Mail
He's getting the hang of this football management lark!
„It's fun to be in the game, and it's even more fun to win.“
— Michael Korda British writer 1933
Source: Success! (1977), p. 145
Context: Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you derive from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out. You may earn a good living, you may have a safe career, but you will never be a success. Find out what you enjoy doing, and your chances of succeeding will be dramatically better. We play the game every day, sometimes without even recognizing that we're doing it. We compete with other people, or other teams, or other companies, not only because it is essential to business survival, but because we frankly enjoy competition. It's fun to be in the game, and it's even more fun to win.
„It's never just a game when you're winning.“
— George Carlin American stand-up comedian 1937 - 2008
— Viswanathan Anand Indian chess player 1969
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— James P. Carse American academic
Source: Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility
— Yuzuru Hanyu Japanese figure skater (1994-) 1994
Quote from an article on the Olympic Channel https://www.olympicchannel.com/en/stories/news/detail/yuzuru-hanyu-coy-cryptic-beijing-olympic-2022-chen-ankle/, published 3 April 2019. (Retrieved 11 September 2020)
Other quotes, 2019
„Sometimes you have to lose a piece to win a game.“
— Rick Riordan, book The Throne of Fire
Source: The Throne of Fire
„The world is a game of chess; the loser loses and the winner wins.“
— Jamal-al-Din Afghani Political activist and Islamic ideologist 1837 - 1897
As quoted in Jamāḷ al-Dīn al-Afghāni: A Muslim intellectual (1984) by Anwar Moazzam, p. 3
„There is plenty of time to win this game, and to thrash the Spaniards too.“
— Francis Drake English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician of the Elizabethan era 1540 - 1596
Reputedly while playing Bowls at Plymouth Hoe, upon being informed that the Spanish Armada had been sighted approaching England. ([29 July, 1588, 19 July]); This attribution is not known to have appeared in writing until 1736, so its authenticity remains uncertain.
Disputed
Variant: There's time to finish the game and beat the Spaniards too.
„Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games“
— Babe Ruth American baseball player 1895 - 1948
The earliest quotes similar to this are presented as unattributed folk wisdom, such as this example from 1959:
As Brother Allen of Newsweek indicated, it has been fun, but don't try to rest on your laurels. Always remember, “YESTERDAY’S HOME-RUN DOESN’T COUNT IN TODAY’S GAME,” and today’s game is well under way.
The quote does not begin to be attributed to Babe Ruth until the 1980s, nearly 30 years after its first appearance.
Disputed
Source: F. N. Abbott, "On Your Marks", in [The Palm, vol lxxix, no. 1 (February 1959), Harry L., Bird (ed.), 1959, Champaign, IL, Alpha Tau Omega, 17, http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiuc.1744313v0079?urlappend=%3Bseq=19]
Source: https://books.google.com/books?id=cQsKAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Yesterday%27s+home+runs%22&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Ruth
