Sentences with phrase «harder than winning»

Defending a title can be harder than winning it but despite a record - breaking season, the players believe that to be remembered as one of the great sides, they need to win it again and again.
It is way harder than winning the EPL or CL.
Mourinho won it with Porto, with is much harder than winning it with Arsenal.
Are you a service provider who makes reaching a live person harder than winning the lottery?

Not exact matches

His willingness to see his employee as a human being and respond with empathy and humor is winning him more hard work and dedication than dour - faced whip cracking ever would.
Now, more than a decade later and with award - winning wine to show for their hard work, they are adding a new crop: marijuana.
It's harder to teach a kid to win than to drive a particular type of car.
Her entire life has been a string of hard - won, improbable triumphs, and she is loath to lower her standards to anything less than spectacular.
According to UpCounsel attorney Gary Lipson, the tide has turned, and it's now harder than it used to be for patent trolls to win lawsuits.
That means finding a measure that wins over moderates, does enough for hard - line conservatives and — barring any Democratic support — loses support from no more than three Republicans senators in the process.
Trump ran for president as a kind of hard - nosed realist who cared more about America «winning» than about freedom outside our borders.
The debate, then, is a lot harder for my side to win; the arguments for sex ordered toward procreation within marriage are much stronger than «man - woman good, man - man / woman - woman bad.»
i long with you david... and i myself stumble in my own awkward efforts toward freedom, and as you said, we know the fact is that it is scary to move into freedom... because it is unknown... but i see so many on this newfound road to freedom get trapped in the liminal space of wish - fullfillment community (which actually rather looks like affinity rather than the hard - won community that comes from communitas)... i'm sure this is going to come off the wrong way, but i'm going to say it anyway: many of the comments seem to be «all about me», and truly that is what religion is... but not freedom, not the mission of Jesus where you die to yourself by taking up your cross daily... not being centered on the «other» rather than yourself...
He said we are inclined to win more to God by mercy than we are by the hard edge of condemnation.
After investing more than $ 1 billion into cutting grocery prices and delivering its strongest supermarket sales growth since 2010, Woolworths is turning its sights to convenience and in - store experience to protect hard - won market share gains from new rivals such as Amazon.
Yes congrats chelsea, i say it begrudgingly, but they deserve.We need to show that same kind of resolve and fighting spirit, because stoke would enjoy nothing more than tripping us up.This is where being ruthless is everything, we need to kick em in the teeth hard, no fancy pansy football.We need the win
That's actually harder to pull off than winning a couple of those games.
Damon Hill finally got it together in 1996 and won the World Championship driving the FW18, though rookie teammate Jacques Villeneuve pushed him harder than he would have liked.
Indeed Real Madrid are unbeaten in 29 matches across all competitions and it's hard to imagine anything other than a comfortable win for the Spanish giants as they travel to face Andalusian opponents.
Of course it would be silly to suggest that winning any game, cup or otherwise, isn't good for the club, but let's remember just how problematic FA Cup success has been for this club... I'm certainly not going to suggest I didn't enjoy seeing Arsenal win, I'm a fan of this club first and foremost, but how bad are things when you find yourself secretly wishing that your own team lost so that just maybe real change would finally come... I resent this team for even making me feel such thoughts and it's going to take a lot of effort on their part to earn my trust again... this club has treated the fans so poorly that it has created an incredibly fragile and toxic environment, so much so that a «what have you done for me lately» mentality has emerged... fans rise and fall depending on the results of each game because we don't have faith in those in charge to make the necessary changes to personnel and tactics... each time we win many fans attack any dissenting voices and make unrealistic claims about the players, the manager and the potential for unprecedented success... every time we lose the boo - birds run rampant, calling for heads to roll and predicting the worst... regardless of what side you fall on, it's not your fault, both sides are simply overcompensating for the horrible state of affairs that have been percolating for several years... it's hard to take the long view when those in charge have lied incessantly and refuse to take any responsibilities for their own actions... in the end, we are trapped by the same catch - 22 that ManU faced upon Fergie's exit... less fearful of maintaining the status quo than facing the unknown, which was validated, wrongly or rightly, by witnessing the difficulties they have faced during this transitory period... to be honest, the thing that scares me most is that this team has never prepared whatsoever for this eventuality, which considering our frugal nature and the way we have shunned many of our most revered former players is more than a little disconcerting
It is hard to imagine him being worse than Giroud for us... and if he clicks then we have a great CF for a bargain, win / win right?
That's a harder thing to do than it may sound like, but Los Murciélagos have pulled it off, to the tune of winning five of their last six matches in all competitions, and a nine - match winning streak earlier in the season.
When the bracket was released a little more than a week ago, it was hard to imagine this Seminoles team would advance further than the one that won 26 games and earned a No. 3 seed last season.
Personally I have always felt it is harder to win the Prem than it would be to win the CL.
Froome may yet win again — he's, rightfully, the betting favorite — but he'll have to fight harder than ever to wear the Maillot Jaune in Paris.
but we know talent wins in the league more than anything else, and if you have someone guys like, someone guys will play hard for, someone who guys want around because they know it'll mean good things for their career, then that's a big part of getting to a good place
JORDAN (to reporters in 1993): Winning this championship was harder than anything I've done before, with all the ups and downs and the mental approach that I've had to take into each game.
Maybe he could have pointed out that Scholes said Ozil took the easy option out but also that it is now harder for him to win things than at Real Madrid.
But with Le Prof now working harder than ever and finally looking like he is willing to splash the cash in order to win the title, perhaps Arsenal fans can all finally forget the past and get behind the team.
This season can be won, as Alexis wants the cup and will play harder than usual.
It may have been a harder road to silverware than most expected after an expensive summer, but Manchester City achieved one of their biggest goals of the season by winning the Capital One Cup after a penalty - shootout win over Liverpool — 1 - 1 after extra time — that featured three of the Citizens» South Americans stars contributing to the win.
Overall we worked hard today and got the win so I'm happy more for the fighting spirit rather than this meaningless competition.
Florida State enters 2014 as the favorite — the Noles lead the 2014 championship betting odds already, ahead of Alabama, Stanford, and Ohio State — but there's nothing in sports that's harder to do than win consecutive titles.
If Arsenal had won or even managed a draw, no one would say anything abuot Alexis other than he is often the hardest working, more positive player on the pitch.
You don't win in the NFL by paying players more than their worth, especially if they don't work hard for it and aren't playing up to it.
They also failed to win in the eight games they played on the road, perhaps suggesting the absence of home advantage will hit them harder than it will Australia.
These being said, it is much, much harder to win EL than FA Cup.
If this is the line up we should still win but we are making it unnecessarily harder than it should be.
Also since Chelsea and City came into contention the League is much harder to win than the time he won his 3 trophies.
After the barren years, there is no doubt that the Frenchman has major honours in his sights again, but the Premier League and Champions League are competitions that are even harder to win than ever these days, with clubs like Barcelona, Real Madrid, PSG, Bayern Munich, Chelsea and Man City all able to outgun us in the transfer market.
Pittsburgh hugged its prospects so hard to win but didn't get further than an NLDS appearance by doing so.
But as Cincinnati's surprised fans are learning, and Ed Jucker knew all along, it was going to be harder to hold a championship than to win one.
Whether the Open Division in girls volleyball works out well for the top teams will be hard to determine, but it's clear to see that many more teams from other divisions will now have better odds at winning a CIF state title than they did previously.
Is it really so hard to believe that the striker would prefer a move to London than Manchester, with Arsenal being able to offer Champions League football and on previous season's showings, a better chance of winning the Premier League?
It's hard to really argue against Zidane though as he was a more than worthy winner, with the Real Madrid boss continuing his incredible streak of winning trophies with the La Liga title and the Champions League last season.
He is a very hard worker, but if you are going to win titles or big trophies then you need more than that from your striker / winger.
With Arsenal now on a run of seven straight wins in a row with Middlesbrough next in line for a beating, it was always going to hard for Arsene Wenger to drop anyone with the team playing so well, but Le Prof made four changes for last nights match against Ludgorets, and perhaps this team was even stronger than the one that struggled to maintain the pace against Swansea on Saturday.
Maryland looked the part in disposing of Richmond and a USF team that was much better than we realized at the time; a loss to Bowling Green made it harder to craft a path to six wins, but if they kept playing like they did against USF, a few more wins would probably show up.
The difference between Lackey and Darvish over two months is likely to be much smaller than you think, and while it looks like the Cubs will need every last win, it's harder and harder to justify a huge prospect dump for a rental after the Quintana trade.
It's harder to win than the world cup actually since there is no weak team, so no margin for error.
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