John McCain Quotes About Winning
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We conservatives can win the ideological battles on a level playing field. Our ideas are better. Given fair elections based on contributions from regular voters, instead of $100,000 checks from business-as-usual special interests, we will prevail.
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I wrestled and played football in high school and in my last year, I started as a wrestler and actually had a fairly good record. But I hated to lose. I always gave it everything I had which, unfortunately, was not as much as I'd hoped for. But keep in mind, I feel like I got the most out of my ability. One moment that was special above all the rest was winning my last bout at the Naval Academy to finish the entire summer undefeated. That was thrilling, but what's more, it helped me in prison because the first time I got knocked around by the Vietnamese, it did not come as a total shock.
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Both candidates in this election [2004] pledge to end this war and bring our troops home. The great difference - the great difference is that I intend to win it first.
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Americans want to win; bin Laden thinks he's winning now.
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We must win in Iraq. If we withdraw, there will be chaos, there will be genocide, and they will follow us home.
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The question is not whether you would like to be president or not. The question is: Do you think you can win and do you want to run? And none of those are clear to me.
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As almost anyone with war experience knows, you're never supposed to show the enemy what you won't do to win.
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