“You're in a horse race but you're thinking like a sheep. Sheep don't win horse races.”
Jeannette Walls book The Glass Castle
Source: The Glass Castle
TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Derren Brown: The System (2008)
“You're in a horse race but you're thinking like a sheep. Sheep don't win horse races.”
Jeannette Walls book The Glass Castle
Source: The Glass Castle
“That horse had better win. I saw George get on the plane with an automatic.”
Mickey Mantle (1931–1995) Professional baseball player
On George Steinbrenner's Kentucky Derby entry, Eternal Prince; as quoted in "Baseball Has a Double Standard for Beer Companies" https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/519946294/ The Capital Times (May 4, 1985)
Kenneth Chenault (1951) American business executive
A Principled Leader (2004)
Context: After 9-11, I told our senior management team that this was a tremendous leadership challenge that each of us was facing and I wanted them to be courageous. I wanted them to be decisive, to not shirk away from taking tough actions. I also told them to be compassionate. If the organization believed that they were not compassionate, particularly in these times, they would lose their privilege to lead. I wouldn’t be the one to take away their leadership – the organization – the people — would. Compassion can be offered without sacrificing a sense of urgency or a strong will to win. That’s one of the values I believe in very strongly, and I talk about it in the organization. I want to win the right way. I’m very competitive. I’ve got a strong will to win, but I want to win the right way. That’s my focus.<!-- ** p. 17
Sebastian Vettel (1987) German racing driver in Formula 1
http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2008/9/8379.html September 13, 2008
After his first pole.
Sourced quotes
Yuzuru Hanyu (1994) Japanese figure skater (1994-)
Interpretation of a Japanese interview, as quoted in the same The New York Times-article linked above, published 4 January 2018.
Other quotes, 2018
Phil Hartman (1948–1998) Canadian American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and graphic artist
On the Simpsons, Lionel Hutz
Namwali Serpell (1980) Zambian feminist academic and writer
Source: On coming to terms with her mixed race identity in “Namwali Serpell: 'As a young woman I wasn’t very nice to myself'” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/30/namwali-serpell-the-old-drift-interview in The Guardian (2019 Apr 30)
Suzanne Collins (1962) American television writer and novelist
Caesar Flickerman and Peeta Mellark, p. 138
The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games (2008)
Context: "So, here's what you do. You win, you go home. She can‘t turn you down then, eh?" says Caesar encouragingly.
"I don't think it‘s going to work out. Winning... won‘t help in my case," says Peeta.
"Why ever not?" says Caesar, mystified. Peeta blushes beet red and stammers out. "Because... because... she came here with me."
Alfred de Zayas (1947) American United Nations official
Report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order on the adverse impacts of free trade and investment agreements on a democratic and equitable international order http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/IntOrder/Pages/Reports.aspx. <br class="br">2015, Report submitted to the UN General Assembly