It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.

The 1st period is won by the best technician. The 2nd period is won by the kid in the best shape. The 3rd period is won by the kid with the biggest heart.

Before broadcasting for 50-some years, I did TV, played 10 years in the big leagues, won a world championship - and played a big part in that, too, letting the Cardinals inject me with hepatitis. Takes a big man to do that.

It's a pity that nobody has found an exploding black hole. If they had, I would have won a Nobel prize.

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.

Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.

With confidence, you have won before you have started.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.