Quotes about Victory

Politics had seemed to become, even well before the age of Trump, a mortal affair. It was now zero-sum: When one side profited, another lost. One side's victory was another's death. The old notion that politics was a trader's game, an understanding that somebody else had something you wanted—a vote, goodwill, old-fashioned patronage—and that in the end the only issue was cost, had gone out of fashion. Now it was a battle between good and evil.

After all, Ailes was perhaps the person most responsible for unleashing the angry-man currents of Trump's victory: he had invented the right-wing media that delighted in the Trump character.

In politics somebody has to lose, but invariably everybody thinks they can win. And you probably can't win unless you believe that you will win—except in the Trump campaign.

There were so many fellows ranked over me I couldn't just whoop them all. I had to out-shadow them by talking.

In a competition of love we'll all share in the victory, no matter who comes first.

I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.

There live a great man named Joe / who was belittled by a loudmouth foe / While his rival would taunt and tease / Joe silently bore the stings / And then fought like gladiator in the ring

If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.

The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most.

I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.