Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

People don't like to talk about victory and defeat anymore.

I ended the war a horse ahead.

If victory has a hundred fathers, it also brings forth a hundred advisors.

Regardless of the magnitude, the crowd, or the pay-per-view sales, the goal is to beat the guy in front of me.

He who knows things, and in fighting puts his knowledge into practice, will win his battles. He who knows them not, nor practices them, will surely be defeated.

We don't realize that we face a frustrating situation in which we win every battle, but we lose the war.

If one thinks only of winning, a sordid victory will be worse than a defeat. For the most part, it becomes a squalid defeat.

I've been to war, and I know the consequences and sacrifice it takes. If we must fight, we fight to win.

I love it. In the NFL, you win or you lose, and the money still shows up.

You never win a game unless you beat the guy in front of you. The score on the board doesn't mean a thing. That's for the fans. You've got to win the war with the man in front of you. You've got to get your man.

You got an all-out prize fight, you wait 'til the fight's over, one guy's left standing and that's how you know who's won.

Don't worry about making friends; don't worry about making enemies. Worry about winning, because if you win, your enemies can't hurt you, and if you lose, your friends can't stand you.

All the stats don't mean a thing if we don't get the win. The most important stat is the win. Nothing else really matters if you don't get the win.

A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.

I'm not afraid to fail. Sometimes when you lose, you win. Sometimes when you win, you lose.

Life is like a game, Charlie Brown... Sometimes you win... Sometimes you lose." "I'll be happy if I just make the playoffs.

At the end of the day, if we don't win that game, we're going home, anyway, so what does it matter. I just wanted to be available, and it ended up to the point where I could help out tonight.

Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.

War is not at all such a difficult art as people think. . . . In reality it would seem that he is vanquished who is afraid of his adversary and the the whole secret lies in that.

Yes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, but everyone forgets the second half of that quote: the road to heaven is paved with good actions.

When 'tis an aven thing in th' prayin', may th' best man win ... an' th' best man will win.