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Winners

  • 08-05-2012 08:04PM
    #1
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,144 ✭✭✭


    What famous people or present do you admire for their winning attitude, mindset, work ethic or guile?


    I admire Floyd Mayweather, Napoleon, Abraham Lincoln, Fifty Cent, Rafael Nadal, Miles Davis amongst many others.


    These people possess or possessed traits which bring about success.


    I believe there are several qualities winners tend to possess. They often have the ability to focus intensely on reality and see things for what they are. They become comfortable with harsh realities and make the most of it. They display a fearless attitude towards adversity, they see oppurtunities in a negative situation where others would complain or feel sorry for themselves, they dedicate themselves to their craft with hard work and enthusiasm. They see through rhetoric and find the reality of a situation.


    They remain emotionally stable, not getting too down when things are bad but also not getting too excited or caught up in their success as many do while losing touch with the traits which got them their success. If they have dreams and ambitions they realise you have to get active, make some noise, bruise a few people in your path and expect others to do the same to you. It is human nature and instead of complaining you must just get better at protectin yourself.


    Most people can't handle boredom. That means they can't stay on one thing until they get good at it. And they wonder why they're unhappy.


    So who are winners in your eyes and what makes them winners?


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Comments

  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 731 ✭✭✭inmyday


    Sonia O'Sullivan

    Her career was very very special, so many medals, and she holds two world records and loads of nation records. She is an excellent winner, and she showed that by coming back after what happened in Atlanta and proving it.
    She also seems to be very nice, although ive never met her.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    martin sheen


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭MidlandsM


    Ted Bundy............man, what a savage worker.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Michelle Smith De Bruin

    She had her goals and rules be damned, she went out and got them


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,061 ✭✭✭tvercetti


    Larry Murphy!!!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,450 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Michael.


  • Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 5,620 ✭✭✭El_Dangeroso


    50 cent?

    What? Hahahhahaha!! No seriously what?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 830 ✭✭✭Born to Die


    tvercetti wrote: »
    Larry Murphy!!!

    Which Larry Murphy?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,703 ✭✭✭token56


    People who are genuinely happy.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 830 ✭✭✭Born to Die


    My Dad and even more so my Ma.













    cue morons


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,904 ✭✭✭Chavways


    Hitler


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,250 ✭✭✭lividduck


    Michael O'Leary,Michael O'Leary, and , o yeah Michael O'Leary:D


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,948 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    50 cent?

    What? Hahahhahaha!! No seriously what?

    Wikipedia has some strange additions on his page.
    In 2005, Jackson expressed support for President George Walker Bush after rapper Kanye West criticized him for the slow response in assisting the Hurricane Katrina victims.

    If his felony convictions did not prevent him from voting, he claimed he would have voted for Bush.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    Pedro Sanchez.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,144 ✭✭✭Scanlas The 2nd


    50 cent?

    What? Hahahhahaha!! No seriously what?

    My reaction would be the same before I learned more about him.

    Now that I think of it, Jedward have some winners' qualities, as much as I hate to admit it. They take bold action and are impervious to criticism.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 854 ✭✭✭Caraville




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,916 ✭✭✭shopaholic01


    I really, really admire Rafael Nadal too - especially when he changes his shirt;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Eamon Coghlan, Stephen Roche, Sean Kelly, Sonia, Catherina McKiernan, Fionnuala Britton: all have won at various times. I admire them because I know how hard it is.

    What made them winners? They finished first. :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,249 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    Jim Stynes.

    Probably the greatest Irish-Australian of all-time. For someone who wasn't born in Australia to be given a state funeral speaks volumes of the man


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,050 ✭✭✭token101


    Wikipedia has some strange additions on his page.

    Off topic but......

    You can't vote if you're a felon? Jesus is it any wonder they're mad to convict everyone that's poor. What a f***ing sick society.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,286 ✭✭✭SouthTippBass


    Schwarzenegger!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,144 ✭✭✭Scanlas The 2nd


    I think I'd have to go with Christian Bale too. He's a winner. The dedication he puts into movies is incredible. Just look at him in the machinist or the fighter compared to batman.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 378 ✭✭I_smell_fear


    Some desperate attempts at trying to be funny here


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 854 ✭✭✭Caraville


    Actually most of the winners I know are people in my life that have gone through the most horrific of traumas and still survived and how they coped and continue to cope I will never know.

    But apart from them, in the public eye I really admire:

    Kilkenny hurlers- showing people how it's done since what seems like forever. The talent that continues to come from Kilkenny is actually unbelievable.

    Andrea Bocelli- living with such a difficulty as blindness yet achieving such success with the most beautiful voice.

    Josh Groban- Cute, a gorgeous singer, really intelligent and flipping hilarious. He's just cool.

    Oprah Winfrey- She wrecks my head at times, but in fairness she had achieved ridiculous amounts of success considering she came from nothing really. Really epitomises the American Dream type idea.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,970 ✭✭✭laoch na mona


    anyone who doesn't care if someone else has more and is happy with their life


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 853 ✭✭✭toexpress


    Baroness Thatcher ...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 476 ✭✭Burky126


    I think I'd have to go with Christian Bale too. He's a winner. The dedication he puts into movies is incredible. Just look at him in the machinist or the fighter compared to batman.

    I think you meant to say Daniel Day Lewis.His dedication to film is beyond a statement.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,486 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    I think I'd have to go with Christian Bale too. He's a winner. The dedication he puts into movies is incredible. Just look at him in the machinist or the fighter compared to batman.

    Daniel Day-Lewis walks all over him in terms of dedication to roles.. http://www.totalfilm.com/news/first-look-at-daniel-day-lewis-s-abraham-lincoln


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 660 ✭✭✭jupiterjack


    rafa nadal


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