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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

Michel de Montaigne

The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.

Oprah Winfrey

By their essential nature triumphs can't be given. They must be taken, and the worse the odds and the fiercer the resistance, the greater the honor. Victories can't be gifts.

Lois McMaster Bujold

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

Josh Billings

Our base running was horrible and the mental mistakes is what is costing our team victories.

Bud Maret

I think it just shows the strength and popularity of the Derby at this point. A few weeks ago our list of horses we thought were possible or probable seemed to be shrinking a bit. But when we got the last round of major preps, the list started growing again -- even though two horses (Brother Derek and Lawyer Ron) you'd regard as the favorites scored emphatic victories.

John Asher

We start from eighth place in the constructors' championship, any improvement is satisfying and we have to make as big a step as we can. I don't promise you podium finishes for this year or even victories but we will make our mark and put everything in place to close the gap to the top teams and get there.

Mario Theissen

J.P.'s double was a big lift for our team. We have been struggling to hold onto victories. It felt good not to give one away.

Brian Diatte

I'm not big on moral victories.

Jill Martin

We have earned four very hard road victories in the conference. We're really looking forward to coming home and playing Vermont.

Al Walker

There are no moral victories. A win is a win and a loss is a loss.

Keenan Burton

After that steal, it boosted our confidence and we knew we could win the game. That was one of our best victories of the season.

Alex Hertenstein

You earn victories like this just by sticking with it and digging down.

Lindsay Whalen

This defeat hurts because of the way it happened and because it broke our record of victories.

Lionel Messi

We've had some good victories along the way.

Mark Scarano

There are no moral victories. You can't really gain confidence and say. We hung with this team.' It's all about winning.

Phil Dawson

Today it's like two victories in one. I won the super-G and my Olympic qualification.

Christoph Gruber

We opened with State College and tied them, 36-36, but lost on the second criteria [most bout victories]. We had more pins, but they had more wins.

Ron Frank

Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.

Ralph W. Sockman

We knew each match was going to be important so we needed as many six point victories as possible.

Keith Smith

We played a good game against a good team, but there are no moral victories. We have to keep getting better and turn things like this into wins on the field. There's a few things we have to correct, but we're getting there.

Jeff Zickafoose

The fact that Democrat leaders in Texas and nationally are attempting to use the criminal-justice system to achieve the political victories that they failed to win at the ballot box makes them no better than Third World despots who impose their political will by jailing their opponents.

James Ellis

Singletary and Reynolds score half of their points, so we knew they were the key to their victories every night. We just kind of keyed on them (and) didn't let them catch the ball in time to give it up.

Akin Akingbala

Hannah played consistently all day, and picked up three victories. She is a very competitive person and has a great attitude. She did her part in helping the team earn some valuable points.

Matt Wiemers

I think our main focus of these next few games is really defending people and boxing out. I think whoever wins the battle of the boards will come up with two victories, either way.

Shay Murphy

Winning and losing isn't important to me so much as playing to a certain level. If we play to the level that I expect our team to play at, we should have three victories this weekend.

Bill Walton

What's good for Temple football is victories. Being the best you can be is important and that equals success. But I think for this program to take a step forward, we have to win games. I don't want to put a number on it, but it has to be a significant improvement over what we have achieved so far.

Bobby Wallace

There's not a guy in our dressing room who feels down and upset. I mean, obviously, we're disappointed we didn't come out and get the win in the first game. But we have a job to do and that's to get the split (of the first two games). Get the split in their rink and go back to ours and the Fort Wayne fans will lead us to two victories.

Jonathan Goodwin

I've imagined great victories, and I've imagined great races. The races are better.

Mark Helprin

The distribution of power! Jan has the absolute power in the team - like Lance Armstrong...in the years of his Tour victories.

Jan Ullrich

What we have achieved here (they topped their group with three victories from their three matches) has hopefully proven those people wrong and given the Guinean people pride in us and temporarily taken their minds off their daily hardships.

Pascal Feindouno

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

Sun Tzu

I don't know if we necessarily had something to prove, but we do feel differently than last week. Last week was a very humbling experience. . . . There's no moral victories, or anything like that, but against one of the top teams in the country, we played well.

Marcus Hamilton

We had a step in the right direction, but I don't accept moral victories or anything like that.

Lester Abram

I wish I knew what the answer was. But, we're going to keep working to find it and turn these hard-fought performances into victories.

Tony Shaver

We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win.

Edward Gibbon

One of the keys to our victories was going out there and building relationships with present organizations in their communities. [We] listened to them, went to their meetings, and got their input.

Terence Courtney

I don't know how to explain it but they're not losing their determination to win despite those consecutive victories.

Jong Uichico

Those early victories help. We were playing with plenty of confidence entering MIAA play.

Chip Sodemann

A small package of 25 victories.

Chad Bradford

We have some small and very potentially powerful victories of late, and that's something to be excited about. But I wouldn't say that we are now as potent as Dallas or Houston.

Char Miller

We don't look for moral victories. This was a loss like any other loss.

Gavin Grant

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm not in this thing for moral victories and I'm not in this to validate us as a team that plays hard. We've got to learn how to win ball games.

Tony Shaver

Going in, I had very high expectations. We did a lot of things this season and met some goals, but not all of them. This was a growth year for us. We did well, but there will be many more victories in the future.

Hazel Martinez

I don't like moral victories. We played well, and we made some mistakes, which cost us.

Al Melnick

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

William Mckinley

Until we know the results of those investigations, we should not take position on one side or the other. We wanted to remain neutral as possible. Of course, when you are just neutral after seven victories in one event, you don't look neutral at all.

Patrice Clerc

Their collective attitude, work ethic and persistence are paying off. These guys have earned all four of their victories by playing as a team and trusting each other. It's a whole lot of fun to watch Columbia City soccer this year!

Philip Fretz

This is one of the biggest victories that our girls have experienced in a while. We're real young. I've only got one senior on the team, and it means a lot to them. They're a gutsy bunch of girls. We're short, but we're quick, and they would not be denied. I just feel grateful to have coached them. They're wonderful.

Pam Player

Then a guy said, 'Well, you know, 12 victories is probably just what we'd like, Coach,' ... I said, 'Well, you know, frankly, that's only one game left.' We'd like to win and certainly that's what we will pursue.

Les Miles

We don't have a weak spot in our lineup. All but one starter has a winning record, and eight have hit double digits in victories.

Tim Crawford

There are a lot of accomplishments and victories you can make along the way of a race as long as this. And if we can reach some of those, we'll be fine.

Jackie Brown

After every match we are getting closer to the title. We need to keep playing well and capturing the victories.

Carlos Tevez

We set a school record with 21 dual-meet victories last season. We are hoping to break that record again this season.

Tim Crawford

We should be 3-0 on this road trip, but we're 0-3. There are no moral victories here.

Morris Peterson

I'm very pleased with team. These are two of the top teams in the state and to come out with two victories, I'm very pleased with the team effort today.

Kay Dileo

I like to think of my best moment on the job as quiet victories. Victories over what? Over the "system", over the various bureaucracies not watching me, over my colleagues' indifference, over my patron's ignorance, over the very concept of horn-blowing pride.

Paul Wiener

If you look at five plays, we get those plays, we win, It won't be our coaching style to be into moral victories.

Tyrone Willingham

Once and for all the idea of glorious victories won by the glorious army must be wiped out. Neither side is glorious. On either side they're just frightened men messing their pants and they all want the same thing - not to lie under the earth, but to walk upon it - without crutches.

Peter Weiss

But we don't believe in moral victories any more. I think maybe last year we would have been happy with a moral victory. But now we want to win, that's all that counts to us. This hurts.

Todd Galloway

I told them to be disappointed in the loss, but not in themselves because they left it on the floor. There are no moral victories for us, we know that, but they should take some satisfaction away.

Mark Vogt

It was very important for us to get this win. We need to reel off some victories.

Warren Lawrence

We're excited about districts. Maybe we can turn some of those losses into victories.

Scott Cardwell

I'm not going to walk out of here with my head down. I'm not looking for moral victories. I'm just looking for guys who will play with toughness and will compete and I think we did that. Maybe (Penn State) thought we were going to go in the bag, but I was going to keep playing.

Mark Dantonio

All the way back to 2002 and 2004, the issue of security and terrorism was supposed to be the strength that drives Republican victories and generally has been the strongest suit of the president. Now they don't have a strong suit to play.

Charles Franklin

I thought we played okay. We played all top-ranked 5A schools. We may not have taken in match victories, but we did win a game against San Antonio-Madison.

Lee Grisham

I want to be as honest as I can about the things I've been through - the sorrows and joys, victories and defeats - and to use those experiences as a well to draw from. Hopefully, the songs that result from that kind of writing will be songs that mean something to others.

Jim Cole

In a tough competitive market like this, the victories are model by model, not typically across the board for any particular maker.

Paul Taylor

It's always good to have an opportunity to win a game, but we don't do moral victories here. We're not a moral victory kind of team. We lost, we lost.

Jason Cain

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.

Abraham Lincoln

The people of California are sick and tired of all the fighting, and they are sick and tired of all the negative TV ads, ... in a couple of days the victories or the losses will be behind us.

Beverly Hilton

Of course we do, ... I know that it is going to be difficult, but we are by no means out of it. Our team still feels like it has a string of victories that we can put together, and if that happens it will certainly help our chances. Things are going to have to fall our way, but if we can do what we are capable of, I think that we have a chance.

Dennis Setzer

We spent a lot of time waiting on the ball instead of going to the ball and you can't do that. It looked like we wanted it handed to us instead of going to get it and taking it ourselves and that's frustrating. But there were little minor victories from this game and that's what we're going to have to take from this.

Jessie Mccartney

We're still waiting for that moment. You have a lot of little victories that you fight so hard for so that you end up sighing in relief instead of jumping for joy. I don't know what that moment will be; we're just relishing what's going on for us.

Marti Dodson

We lead the state in moral victories.

Tr Harlan

Our seniors clearly didn't want to walk out of here without the victory. The seniors stepped up today and took care of business. Our seniors walk out of here with 89 victories. That is pretty darn impressive for a four-year career.

Carol Gelet

This is one of the best come-from-behind victories I've seen in my 30 years of coaching. The guys showed a lot of character and played with a lot of heart.

Marlen Ronten

We are going to be good in goal and good defensively, so we are going to have to grind out victories.

Brendan Nash

It ranks in the top ten victories in my 19 years at Penn State. I couldn't be happier for the players.

Joe Battista

It's important to show our victories but also our defeat of the mean-spirited anti-gay legislation being put forward by the opposition. It's really an attack on children and families.

Samiya Bashir

That's the key for us ? play hard each night. It doesn't matter who we're playing as long as we play hard each night. I feel like, if we had played hard like that a couple of games earlier, we could have had a couple of victories instead of losses.

Dwight Taylor

Skip Wilson is a Temple and a Philadelphia collegiate baseball institution, ... His legacy will not only be measured in terms of victories and championships, but in the number of lives he has positively affected.

Bill Bradshaw

He shook loose at the top of the stretch, but that was the second time he lugged in. But he's young, and we hope it's just a learning process. He has shown he has a lot of room for improvement, especially if he cuts out the two-year-old stuff. But he is very unique, and part of the reason is because he has a whole lot of ones (victories).

Jerry Bailey

Throughout his first term, the governor has won key victories for working people.

Doug Scofield

The victories will give the Congress an advantage and raise expectations that it will do well in the next parliamentary elections as well.

Pran Chopra

These victories are the latest in what's shaping up to be a minimum-wage revolution in the states.

Jen Kern

We have the perfect bike and the perfect tyre for the job. I hope this is the start of many more victories.

Loris Capirossi

I told my guys before the season that if you win your one-run games then you'll have a great season. We're still having a good season, but those one-run losses do hurt. Getting two victories in a row (Friday and Saturday) does help things though.

Landy Faedo

Well, they still won it. We will take a couple of victories like that.

Jared Phay

The guys played with a lot of composure, focus and intensity that resulted in victories on both nights.

Sol Jones

The 105th Congress was a small-business friendly Congress, ... Small business had some key legislative victories because these lawmakers understand how important small business is to the economy.

Jack Faris

We have an outstanding staff now and a group of outstanding kids. I'll say this: whoever does get the job is walking into a lot of victories and a great situation.

Greg Baloga

The guys are excited about the way things worked out in Daytona. Obviously we were disappointed with the finish but that's behind us now and we're moving on to California. If we continue to have good, solid runs every week, eventually things will fall into place and we'll start bringing home the finishes we deserve, hopefully a few victories.

Doug Randolph

I think we had played some of our worst basketball that weekend. We felt those were some potential victories that we let slip away, but we have an opportunity to redeem ourselves.

Chris Gobrecht

I think it could be possible but in the end it's a sport. I don't promise you podium finishes or victories this year but we'll make our mark and put everything in place to close the gap to the top teams.

Mario Theissen

The field events also should be much improved this season as Nikki Colombo has looked strong in practice. Along with Tina Herrera, Erin Johnson and Rachael Smith, the lady throwers are on the verge of making their mark in helping the team to league victories.

Jack Power

I read all these stories that I don't know anything about politics. But I must know something. I've had some good victories in Congress, and I've survived this town for four years.

Donald T. Regan

We don't want any more morale victories. We don't want to just come close. We've come close too many times. We want to win. We played hard, but down the stretch Illinois made more plays.

Dion Harris

After the first seven minutes, we basically played them even. There are no moral victories but I liked the fact that we didn't back down and we didn't go away.

Michael Herring

Our kids have gradually played a little better. Our kids are coming off a disappointing loss against Bloomington. The positive thing is we played well for longer period of time. The disappointing thing is it's a loss. There are no morale victories.

Bob Lockart

We gave away something on one of the few court victories we've had on this. We need stronger oversight.

Jim Sharp

My scoring and getting my team involved help these 20-point victories come.

Shawn Henderson

These victories, especially on a consistent basis, will begin to show with the trickle-down effect. It will show from the top to the bottom as people get on the bandwagon. This will help improve our base at home, but, most importantly, it will bring new people on board. It will snowball. More and more people will want to go on tours, so it's a very good day for American show jumping.

George Morris

I was extremely pleased with the way that we played in our matches. It was nice to see that the things we have been emphasizing in practice were put into play during the matches. It's always nice to come away with some victories during the spring, but it was more important for us to see that we were progressing and improving as a team.

Dave Thorn

It will take more verdicts to tell whether trying every case individually is sustainable or needs to be revisited in light of plaintiff victories.

Chris Shibutani

She has a great perspective. She's young. She's only 14 years old. You can imagine for how many more years she can represent the United States, and how many great victories she can obtain in international competition. We're looking to see her in many years from now on.

Bela Karolyi

Tonight was a good game for us. I don't necessarily believe in moral victories, but our girls know now that they can win games like this.

Keith Hennig

Morale is very high after all the victories and with the crazy support we'll have, we're going to do everything we can to win.

Hassan Shehata

I hate even discussing moral victories, but I was happy (last night). I obviously would have liked to win, but if there is such a thing as a moral victory, we had it. We didn't quit.

Paul Moran

Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace.

Hugh Prather

I never go around claiming moral victories. But for us after being embarrassed 20-0 by them at our place, I liked that there wasn't any quit in us. We kept battling. But we were outclassed. It was like a race horse. They are a thoroughbred and we're a quarter horse.

Grant Hall

It hasn't always been easy. Those victories give us the confidence to know that we can come back against tough opponents.

Stan Domin

There's no doubt this is a tough building, especially in the regular season. Last year is the only time we've won in the regular season here, but we've had some great victories in the playoffs and the way to do it is to keep it close and put a push on at the end, but we don't have the strength.

Gary Edwards

Last year we had a lot of kids on the varsity field for the first time. It can be intimidating. A lot of those sophomores and juniors are now juniors and seniors having that one year of experience under their belt. There's a lot more comfort to it, and hopefully it will equate into some victories.

Doug Higgins

Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them.

Mia Hamm

We're fierce rivals. But we're really celebrating each other's victories.

Randy Myhre

I am glad our younger guys were able to get some valuable playing time and pick up some wins in the process. We are expecting a lot out of Alex and Carson in the future. I hope the victories make their confidence bloom.

Marc Sieving

My three little beautiful babies gave me three victories. The day they opened their eyes in the hospital, the day they walked out of there and the day they came to live with me at last.

Reyna Gomez

The history here in the last few years has been such that they haven't enjoyed those kind of games and those victories. Hopefully we can give our fans the confidence that so they can expect more of that so we don't have to keep buying new goal posts.

Guy Morriss

I think in general things are getting worse, not better. There are lots of little victories. Spam is one of our industries shining victories. But there are lots of areas where we aren't doing very well.

Bruce Schneider

Even though the symbols of my victories are being sold, what I will always retain is the knowledge that for such a long period I was the supreme world tennis champion.

Bjorn Borg

Two wins at the start of the conference don't mean anything. It's how we build on these victories that matters.

Binky Favis

We really don't want no moral victories. It would've been better to win. We was underdogs anyway, so there really wasn't no pressure on us.

Charles Warren

It was a huge win. We couldn't afford another loss one game away from our conference schedule. We have to keep getting better and keep picking up victories.

Joe Ryan

It was a must-win situation for us. It was a couple of big victories. We moved up the standings right away . . . we moved up from ninth to seventh. We're two games out of a playoff spot right now.

Todd Warnick

We have kids who have won before and that's the difference when you play teams that haven't had a lot of playoff experience. Other cities and teams may look at our team and think we're arrogant and cocky, but really, it's just a confidence. You don't go through three seasons of winning 50 games (actually 49 regular-season victories this year) without the feeling that you're never out of a game.

Jacques Beaulieu

These centers have gotten smarter over the years. They are turning victories that would have just been a back-pay award into something more.

Jennifer Gordon

We are not into moral victories. Even though no one else thought we could win the game, we believed we could.

Chris Capko

Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.

Polybius

Coach Sutton said it was one of the most inspirational victories he'd ever experienced. He said we played OSU defense. He even said the victory helped out his aching back.

Jameson Curry

When you make a lot of movies, some of them don't work. So when something does work and people are genuinely moved and you have 150 million people worldwide seeing a movie, believe me, it feels good and you want to snatch those victories from the air and hold onto them as long as you can, ... It just doesn't happen very often in the film business no matter whose career it is.

Rick Mccallum

We've had a hard time putting away teams. It wasn't a great offensive night, but it was good enough. At this time of year, you win or lose . . . there are no moral victories.

Trent Jewett

The interesting cause of organized labor's demise is perhaps earlier victories -- the vast majority of Americans are now empowered and skilled to the extent that they do not need collective bargaining.

Tim Kane

The victories here will prepare the ground for my Olympic dream.

Tejaswini Sawant

I can't wait for the award ceremony where Ken is going to give himself an award. We'll see if this is the start of 75 consecutive victories.

Will Shortz

In the environmental movement . . . every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.

David Suzuki

That's one measuring stick, certainly, for quarterbacks. But of all those games, how many ended up as victories for that guy's team?

Greg Knapp

There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.

Elie Wiesel

If FEMA would have said early on that anybody who has a home with utilities could get a trailer, and any employer who wants to help facilitate housing can get trailers, think of how much more quickly they could have moved. These are some of the low-hanging fruit. They should have been some our early victories.

Bobby Jindal

It's great that we're being competitive, but at some point we have to start winning these games. In two years we've closed the gap, but a loss is a loss. There are no moral victories anymore.

Brian Meehan

Weve had some moral victories this season. Weve had one-goal losses against teams that did a number on us last year.

Eva Lang

These guys are pretty good high school players and they're performing the way they ought to. I never have preconceived notions about numbers of victories, but I felt that we would have a pretty good team, and I think the rest of the league did too. They voted us third, and that was an appropriate spot for us.

Ed Heintschel

The greatest marketing tool there is is victories. I think [the team's merchandise sales] are going to finish strong.

Eddie White

It deprives the Republicans of a very experienced vote-counter, someone who's been very successful securing victories with a very thin majority.

Earl Black

These players want to be out there. They want to win. It's good to see their hard work pay off with victories like these.

Zack Nixon