Winning The Day Quotes

• Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.

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  Babe Ruth

  Motivational   Inspiring   Running  

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• Think about winning the day... if you are worried about the mountain in the distance, you might trip over the molehill right in front of you.

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  Drew Brees

  Distance   Thinking   Winning  

  Drew Brees (2010). “Coming Back Stronger: Unleashing the Hidden Power of Adversity”, p.80, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• You master Monday! You start winning the day! You start winning the week! Then the month! Then the year!

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  Eric Thomas

  Monday   Winning   Years  

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• When you wake up, think about winning the day. Don't worry about a week or a month from now -- just think about one day at a time.

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  Drew Brees

  Winning   Thinking   Worry  

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• Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time.

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  Thomas Wolfe

  Time   Home   Winning  

  Thomas Wolfe (2006). “Look Homeward, Angel”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• A good friend of mine once told me that each morning when you wake up, think about winning the day. Don't worry about a week from now or a month from now - just think about one day at a time. If you are worried about the mountain in the distance, you might trip over the molehill right in front of you. Win the day!

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  Drew Brees

  Morning   Distance   Good Friend  

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• The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

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  Lily Tomlin

  Inspirational   Funny   Meaningful  

  Quoted in People, 26 Dec. 1977. Although now associated with Tomlin, this saying appears anonymously in Robert Reisner, Graffiti (1971), in the form "Remember, even if you win the rat race - you're still a rat." Rosalie Maggio, in New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women, states that William Sloane Coffin said "Even if you win the rat-race, you're still a rat" as a chaplain at Williams College or Yale University in the 1950s or 1960s.

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• If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?

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  Vince Lombardi

  Softball   Sports   Athlete  

  "The Winner-Takes-All Society" by Chris Wallace, www.guernicamag.com. March 25, 2014.

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• Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.

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  Barack Obama

  Country   Winning   Thinking  

  "Obama: Voters 'Scared,' Not Thinking Clearly About Election", www.foxnews.com. October 18, 2010.

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• For me, winning isn't something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream.

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  Emmitt Smith

  Inspirational   Sports   Football  

  "Rice, Smith lead star-studded Class of 2010" by Vinnie Iyer, www.sportingnews.com. August 06, 2010.

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