You can’t win with a hangover. Ray Donovan s4e7: Norman Saves the World, Terry to boxer, Showtime 2016
With win-win-win we all win. The Office US s2e21: Conflict Resolution, Michael, NBC 2005
Heads I win. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead 1990 starring Gary Oldman & Tim Roth & Richard Dreyfuss & Joanna Roth & Ian Richardson & Joanna Miles & Donald Sumpter & Iain Glen et al, director Tom Stoppard, opening scene
I’m in it to win. Just like you are. ’Cause that’s what I was hired to do. Everything else is coloured bubbles. Runaway Jury 2003 starring John Cusack & Gene Hackman & Dustin Hoffman & Rachel Weisz & Jeremy Piven & Bruce Davidson & Bruce McGill & Marguerite Moreau & Nick Searcy & Leland Orser et al, director Gary Fleder, Fitch to Rohr
‘This is victory. This is what winning looks like.’ General Allen to US army in Afghanistan, cited This is What Winning Looks Like, Vice TV 2013
You’ll find that drivers are a very happy lot of people because they appreciate life far more than the average man does. A driver usually gets killed on a Sunday. Ferrari: Race to Immortality, Sky Documentaries 2020
Enzo Ferrari once said [to drivers], ‘Win or die, you’ll be immortal.’ ibid. driver
When catastrophe would happen, we would just kind of carry on. ibid. wife of driver
Enzo Ferrari was a great talent scout … He’d spotted there were a bunch of English drivers who had started to do very well indeed. ibid. observer
Mike Hawthorn: A lot of fun. I think he used racing as a stepping stone to enjoyment of life, whereas to me, it was life. ibid. Stirling Moss
Wherever you get this danger, you get this thrill. ibid. girlfriend of Hawthorn
We need winners. We don’t need those who finish second or third. ibid. Enzo Ferrari
Lap after lap, Hawthorn and Fangio, no more than yards apart, kept the crowd enthralled with an exhibition of driving skill no adequate words can describe. ibid. race commentary
It [front end of Mercedes] went through the crowd like a torpedo. And it killed over 80 of them and killed over a hundred more. There were even children in the front row. They were in the firing line. ibid. Doug Nye, historian
I have in fact no interest in life outside of racing cars. ibid. Enzo Ferrari
Fangio to me is the best driver in world bar none. ibid. Stirling Moss
So Peter Collins wins his first Grand Prix for Ferrari. ibid. race commentator
A star can be someone with a special style or perhaps a man who is extremely bold. ibid. Enzo Ferrari
I think he [Enzo Ferrari] loved the cars more than the drivers. ibid. Bill Nye
There is no loyalty to a factory. ibid. driver
Fangio left Ferrari … to go to the rival Maserati team … Mike Hawthorn rejoined the Ferrari team at the start of 1957; they had Collins, Musso, the Spanish Fon [Alfonso Cebeza de Vaca y Leighton] 11th Marquess de Portago, and they had Castellotti. It was an incredibly strong team. ibid. Bill Nye
Portago’s crash: Nine spectators were killed, five of them children. It was not uncommon in the 1950s for spectators to be killed. ibid.
Bad luck is the consequence of what we haven’t been able to do or foresee. ibid. Enzo Ferrari
Silverstone: Peter Collins wins after a magnificent drive. And Mike Hawthorne is second. ibid. race commentary
A man has no need of entertainment. Entertainment only distracts from his duty. ibid. Enzo Ferrari
The important thing in life is not the victory but the contest; the essential thing is not to have won but to have fought well. Baron Pierre de Coubertin, 1863-1937