Thrill of Victory Quotes

I do love to gamble; I hate to admit it.

There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not forget this, Winston— always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever.

I hate talking about the dunk contest. I'm just so sick of the dunk contest. I'm done with that. That point of my life I'm over with.

Getting sacks are like prom night. It never gets old.

It doesn't get much more special than playing at Wembley in front of 70,000 people. It's definitely what dreams are made of.

I remember from the very beginning when I walked out at UFC 40, when we had the big lights, the flames, everything. Fans want to see entertainment.

Americans' addiction to sports, with the NFL at the top, is based on the excitement generated by the potential for the unexpected great play which can only happen with honest competition from great athletes.

It is nice to walk out on a court to have it packed.

I love competing in front of a crowd. I enjoy the performance.

If the jump is perfect, you come out, and you feel like you took a three-pointer in basketball or doing the perfect thing in whatever your sport is. You just get that adrenaline rush, a sense of satisfaction, like you want to do it again and again.

What makes climbing great for me, strangely enough, is this life-and-death aspect. It sounds trite to say, I know, but climbing isn't just another game. It isn't just another sport. It's life itself. Which is what makes it so compelling and also what makes it so impossible to justify when things go bad.

It's always been the most important thing for me to enjoy my cricket.

Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.

Victory is plesant, not only to those who love to conquer, bot to all; for there is produced an idea of superiority, which all with more or less eagerness desire.

Winning is a lot of fun. I remember having a meeting a couple years ago and telling the guys: 'You're not enjoying yourselves.' O'Neill said to me afterwards, 'Skip, it's not fun unless you win.'

There's a great sense of achievement, testosterone, fun, being able to live out your masculinity when you play an action role or an action-adventure or a real tough-guy role.

It is amazing how the public steadfastly refuse to attend the third day of a match when so often the last day produces the best and most exciting cricket.

It's not about big markets or small markets. It's not about dominant teams or not. It's about the actual competition and how good the games are, how good the series turn out. That's what I think is the most important for fans.

People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet.

The rush you get from competing in front of the whole world, there's nothing like it.

I get frustrated with certain aspects of the game. But there's things that delight me, it's just the uncertainty of it all.

In football you can never know. You relax and in one second it causes pressure.

There is nothing so satisfying as to be shot at without effect.

Sports is the ultimate escape, the ultimate in reality programming. It's true drama. You really don't know what's going to happen.

I just enjoy playing in the big moments, in the big games.