Loser Quotes - Page 8

• The Olympics is my favourite sporting event. Although I have a problem with that silver medal. When you think about it, you win the gold - you feel good, you win the bronze - you think, 'Well at least I got something'. But when you win silver, it's like, 'Congratulations, you 'almost' won. Of all the losers, you came in first of that group. You're the number one 'loser.' No one lost ahead of you.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Congratulations, Winning, Thinking

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• Winners expect to win before the contest starts; losers don't. Any individual becomes what he or she thinks about most. If you want to be a champion, then that thought must dominate your life. But most important, winners dwell on the rewards of winning; losers dwell on the penalties of failure.

  Wade Schalles

  Winning, Thinking, Champion

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• The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.

  A. A. Gill

  School, Thinking, Interesting

  "The Parenting Trap" by A. A. Gill, www.vanityfair.com. November 2, 2012.

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• The winner of the first point is the loser of the last.

  Michael Stean

  Lasts, Firsts, Winner

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• I was a completely normal kid, the school nerd. In Year 8 and 9 I got picked on. I was a freak- no one understood me. I was the kid who wanted to be abducted by ET. Then all the losers left in Year 10. But I was quite good at school, and very artistic. In Year 11 it turned around. I became one of the coolest kids in school. I was in school musicals- the kid who could sing. It was bizzare. I loved school. It's an amazing little world. The rules inside the school are different from the outside world.

  Darren Hayes

  School, Kids, Years

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• There are only two roads, victory for the working class, freedom, or victory for the fascists which means tyranny. Both combatants know what's in store for the loser.

  Buenaventura Durruti

  Mean, Two, Class

  The Toronto Daily Star, August 5, 1936.

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• The race to win turns us all into losers.

  Alfie Kohn

  Winning, Race, Turns

  Alfie Kohn (1999). “Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes”, p.448, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The image of success is important, but even more important is the ability to focus on solutions instead of on problems. That way, you'll never be thinking like a loser, and you probably won't look like one either.

  Donald Trump

  Success, Business, Thinking

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• Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.

  Questlove

  Giving Up, Years, Circles

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• It's natural for a person to deny he's a failure as a human being. That's why he searches for somebody who is more miserable than himself. That's why so much animosity exists on the Internet. Those who aren't able to find a more miserable person turn to the Internet and call other people losers, even though they've never met just to make themselves superior. Isn't that pathetic? There's a sense of security that comes from speaking badly of someone else. But that isn't true salvation.

  Tatsuhiko Takimoto

  People, Miserable Person, Internet

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• I was awarded 'Most Aggressive Rider of the Day', generally given to the most spectacular loser of the day.

  David Millar

  Given, Riders, Aggressive

  David Millar, Jeremy Whittle (2012). “Racing Through the Dark: Crash. Burn. Coming Clean. Coming Back.”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• We tend to idealize tolerance, then wonder why we find ourselves infested with losers and nut cases.

  Patrick Hayden

  America, Nuts, Tolerance

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• Remember this: with mind you will always be a loser. Even if you are victorious, your victories will be just defeats. With mind there is no victory, with no-mind there is no defeat. You have to shift your whole consciousness from mind to no-mind. Once no-mind is there, everything is victorious. Once the no-mind is there, nothing goes wrong, nothing can go wrong.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Mind, Victory

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• When they show the destruction of society on color TV, I want to be able to look out over Los Angeles and make sure they get it right.

  Phil Ochs

  Color, Tvs, Looks

  Liner notes for compilation album "The Broadside Tapes 1" by Phil Ochs, 1989.

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• Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can't putt.

  Jim Bishop

  Agreement, Two

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• Mexico doesn't deserve what has happened to us. A democratic change is urgent, a change that will permit us to stop being a loser country.

  Vicente Fox

  Change, Country, Mexico

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• It depresses me when people expect me to be like the characters I play on film. I'm not some whiny loser punk, I'm a man's man.

  Zach Braff

  Depressing, Character, Men

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• If we expect kids to be losers they will be losers; if we expect them to be winners they will be winners. They rise, or fall, to the level of the expectations of those around them, especially their parents and their teachers.

  Jaime Escalante

  Teacher, Fall, Kids

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• Teamwork is the glue which binds losers together

  Felix Dennis

  Teamwork, Together, Glue

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• To say that 'I will not be free till all humans (or all sentient creatures) are free' is simply to cave in to a kind of nirvana-stupor, to abdicate our humanity, to define ourselves as losers.

  Hakim Bey

  Humanity, Caves, Kind

  Hakim Bey (2003). “T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism”, p.97, Autonomedia

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• Statistics are for losers.

  Scotty Bowman

  Work, Ministry, Statistics

  Sports Illustrated A Lot More Where They Come From April 2, 1973

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• For the first time, you can actually see the losers turn green

  Bob Hope

  Oscars, Firsts, Green

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• Thinking of Poe, thinking of Mark Twain and Vachel Lindsay, thinking of Jack London and Tom Wolfe, one begins to feel there is almost no way of becoming a creative writer in America without being a loser.

  Nelson Algren

  America, Creative, Way

  "A Walk On The Wild Side".

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• The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.

  Alex Cox

  Real, Imagination, Stories

  Interview with Maximilian Le Cain, sensesofcinema.com. January, 2003.

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• Legal ethics is a misnomer ... lawyers conducting themselves legally are not necessarily conducting themselves morally ."...and ..."The zero sum nature of the legal system, combined with the universal adoption of zealotry as the marching orders of practioners and prosecutors, transforms the moral mission of the legal system from one of truth-seeking, storytelling, and justice, to one of fabrication, distortion, and manipulation in pursuit of victory. These victories, however, make us all losers.

  Thane Rosenbaum

  Zero, Order, Justice

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