Solitary pursuits like playing video games and skateboarding can't compete with the thrill of mobbing a teammate as he scores the winning run - nor do they end with a postgame trip to Dairy Queen.
Winning the overall is a dream I've had since being a young skier. It's everyone's dream.
I was lucky enough that my parents knew about World Cup skiing, so since I was really little, we were watching World Cup winning runs.
At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.
The mind is absolutely instrumental in achieving results, even for athletes. Sports psychology is a very small part, but it's extremely important when you're winning and losing races by hundredths and even thousandths of a second.
Christianity is the fastest-growing religion in the world; Islam is the second. It's spreading in Asia, Africa, and South America. So the world is in a kind of religious revival, and the atheists are totally flummoxed. They thought they were winning, and now they see that they aren't.
The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.
Not winning a title gives fuel to sportswriters and talking heads who question an athlete's true value.
I always hear commentators talking about squads that have been around and that have won things; they always mention the experience of winning and knowing what it takes to win. They have only got that through winning trophies and winning competitions.
My definition of winning at squash is playing and surviving, and I've never lost a match.
Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?
We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup winning teams throughout the past few seasons, when they needed to play defense, they did it. If you can play defense, that's when you know it's game over.
The most important thing for us is winning the Stanley Cup and I want to win.
As a kid, you dream of winning the Stanley Cup. As you get older, you understand the importance of winning the Olympics.
Winning the Stanley Cup in '99 was a dream come true. I'll never forget it.
A lot of people, especially performers in wrestling, feel that winning the title is the only statistic that matters, but it's always about the journey. If you don't have the people behind you, believing in you, and the start of a new chapter after winning the title, then you don't have anything.
Here's the thing - I mean, I don't act for statues. I really don't. The great thing about winning an award is that it creates opportunities.
It's all stealing bases and winning games. If not, go home.
The biggest thing is winning. No matter what percentage, no matter what my numbers say in the sense of points, assists, rebounds and steals, it's always been about winning.
Winning the championship at 'WrestleMania' was a dream come true because not only had it more than a decade since there had been a women's singles match at 'WrestleMania,' but the fact that I got to win it against my best friend in a storyline that was so close to my heart, it was just all kinds of emotional.