While I told myself that each win was a small deposit on the ultimate ownership of the world welterweight crown, the enormous need in me to win touched a whole heap of other responses a fourteen years old can't really work out. It had something to do with rejecting the Lord, with my mother, the Judge, being surrounded by guys who came from wealthy homes, even my headless snake. While I didn't think of it as camouflage, I now know that it was, that I kept myself protected by being out in front. Too far in front to be an easy mark. . Bryce Courtenay
Why would I want to win anything other than a beautiful game?
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Patrick Rothfuss
I have won.
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Erin Hunter
Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.
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Lady Gaga
Winning is a state of mind that embraces everything you do.
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Bryce Courtenay
Obstacles are challenges for winners and excuses for losers
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M.E. Kerr
More Quotes By Bryce Courtenay
It's who you is when folks knocks at the door of your heart what counts. Hide the past and it gives them what's jealous of you the power to bring you undone.
Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark.
Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.
