Losing Quotes - Page 14

• Goalies almost never get credit for winning a game, but they always get blamed for losing a game.

  Steve Carell

  Winning, Games, Goalies

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• I work with a place in Santa Monica called Phase IV. My doctor recommended them to me when I started losing weight. They help people train for things like triathlons or biking and running races. They offer physical therapists, testing, lectures.

  Drew Carey

  Running, Doctors, Race

  "Drew Carey: 'I feel like I'm aging in reverse". Interview with Mary Brophy Marcus, usatoday30.usatoday.com. May 8, 2011.

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• Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Our Society, Skirts, Talent

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.92, Take Root Media

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• Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience.

  Hillary Clinton

  Girl, Baseball, Football

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• Losing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when I became a quadriplegic.

  Chuck Close

  Father, Important, Age

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• There are more than 300,000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The hurricane exposed the sad reality of poverty in America. We saw, in all its horrific detail, the vulnerabilities of living in inadequate housing and the heartbreak of losing one's home.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Home, Reality, America

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• We often don't think of them, we think of the great wars and the great battles, but what about losing a son or a daughter, or a girl losing her husband or vice versa? I think of the people who never got the chance to have the opportunities I had.

  Tony Curtis

  Girl, Daughter, Mother

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• You can only really judge yourself in comparison to other people. How bad you are, but you're not as bad as someone else. So it's degrees of losing.

  John Cusack

  People, Judging, Degrees

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• The new industries are brainy industries and so-called knowledge workers tend to like to be near other people who are the same. Think of the City of Hollywood. People cluster. This means you have winning regions, such as London and Cambridge, and losing regions. The people who want to be top lawyers in Sunderland are hoovered up by London.

  Evan Davis

  Mean, Winning, Thinking

  "Evan Davis: 'I'm a presenter who is gay rather than a gay presenter'". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. May 07, 2011.

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• My father started growing very quiet as Alzheimer's started claiming more of him. The early stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest because that person is aware that they're losing awareness. And I think that that's why my father started growing more and more quiet.

  Patti Davis

  Father, Thinking, Alzheimer's

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• I used to get stressed out all the time when I thought winning was important. I wanted to try to win and help my kids win. Once I figured out it wasn't about winning or losing, it was about teaching these kids about being men, that's when I started to relax.

  Snoop Dogg

  Teaching, Kids, Winning

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Money, Real, Sunset

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• To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Children, Thinking, Life Is

  "Elizabeth Edwards battles breast cancer". "Dateline NBC" with Katie Couric, www.nbcnews.com. November 21, 2004.

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• I think it's my nature to - every time I hear about an award or a nomination, it makes me realize how much I must've been losing before, because I was not aware that every major city had these critics' awards.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Thinking, Cities, Awards

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• Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Wisdom, Knowledge

  "Choruses from the Rock" pt. 1 (1934)

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• Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

  Epictetus

  Children, Lost Love, Wife

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• If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.

  Chris Evert

  Life, Sports, Attitude

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• I mean, I love winning, but losing is a much more intense feeling.

  Jennie Finch

  Mean, Winning, Feelings

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• So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Fighting, Winning

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• Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Identity, Different, Mergers

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• What I worry about is not just Nissan, but Japanese manufacturers losing motivation to maintain production in Japan. The high yen is definitely a headwind.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Motivation, Japan, Worry

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• Losing people makes you realize you've got to grab life - not put things off.

  Robin Gibb

  People, Realizing

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you repeat yourself, then I think you're in danger of losing that fan base, because if you're not interesting yourselves, you're not interesting your audience.

  Martin Gore

  Thinking, Interesting, Fans

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• Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Wisdom, War, Anger

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• The grief of losing my father has come in waves over the years, as it does with most people. His love and devotion as a father provided my closest, most intimate relationship. Dad, and our time together, is in my bones. While reflecting on him, the memories themselves seem to boil down into certain 'essences of Dad.'

  Jennifer Grant

  Memories, Dad, Father

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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