"If a player joins a club that's constantly winning things, it's like latching onto someone else's achievements, " said Venables.
To make money as a sports organisation you need to be winning things.
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Britain's sportsmen, feeble up to now, are winning things (beating Australia at cricket and Italy at football, for heaven's sake).
"There are guys back and used to winning things, " he added.
In the grand scheme of things, winning Ramsey is small beer but for UKIP it is a significant win.
Of course like many things in sports winning cures everything.
People become a little less focused on the small things that lead to winning.
Right or wrong, the reality for athletes is that winning often does take care of things and help people forget about the past.
"All these things that come with winning are great but I don't think much about 'em, other than the Ryder Cup and trying to win tournaments, " Dufner said.
Damian Hinds, Conservative MP for East Hampshire, said competitive sport taught children "the power of a team, pushing yourself, and learning that life involves losing some things as well as winning".
It's a great place to play, especially when you're winning, and it's tough when things are not going your way.
Winning Ohio won Mr Bush the presidency, in effect, so these things matter.
"One of the only things I haven't achieved in rugby is being on a winning Lions tour, " added Lewsey, who was the Test full-back on the ill-fated trip to New Zealand in 2005.
Mr. Graves has a particular fondness for all things Italian, developed during the two years he lived in Rome after winning the 1960 Prix de Rome, a prestigious art scholarship awarded to architects, artists and musicians.
So I guess somewhere in there is running on things you don't believe in and somebody you're not and winning.
In the face of unexpected setbacks and disruptive change, resilient leaders do two very important things: they maintain a clear vision of what they want to achieve (winning) and they continually communicate to employees how the organization will still win.
In the article, Michael Wilhelm notes that if Zuckerberg had shown up in a suit, it could actually have signaled that Facebook was moving away from its winning formula, which could spook employees (and presumably investors) who like the way things run now.
"Maybe we should have pegged them back and put them under pressure, it comes back to the same old things - if you take chances and score tries you'll probably end up winning, " he said.
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