Losing Quotes - Page 17

• I don't think you could get anything worse than losing a child. I think if my child died, I would prefer it if I were dead.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Children, Thinking, Died

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• I just hate losing and that gives you an extra determination to work harder.

  Wayne Rooney

  Inspirational, Football, Determination

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• With everybody having a Facebook and a Twitter, I feel like regular people consider themselves stars. It's a live, real-time upload of every time we buy a pair of socks, the most telling sign that we're losing our politeness. When you know everything about somebody, you can talk to them any way you please.

  Jeff Ross

  Stars, Real, People

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• Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Freedom, People, Liberty

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• We are a people that have always celebrated other people's success so long as we always had the opportunity to meet that success ourselves. That is the American nature. That is the American character. That is one of the things that makes us different from the rest of the world. And I'm afraid we could lose that or are on the verge of losing that.

  Marco Rubio

  Character, Opportunity, Long

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• America has always been a nation of small places, and as we lose them, we're losing part of ourselves.

  Richard Russo

  America, Small Places, Nations

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• If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.

  Marat Safin

  Men, Be A Man, Ifs

  "Marat Safin crashes out of Shanghai with swipe at Berdych and Roddick". www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2009.

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• Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Science, People

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.217, Ballantine Books

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• Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Children, Horrible, Losing A Child

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• My heart pounds sickeningly and I turn pale... I often feel as if I were dead... I seem to be losing my mind.

  Robert Schumann

  Heart, Mind, Pounds

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• It's always tough when you lose - you've worked so hard for that moment and it hasn't gone the way you wanted. But you have to realise there's always a bright side, you have to pick yourself up and get ready for the next game.

  Maria Sharapova

  Games, Being Positive, Way

  "Tennis star Maria Sharapova reveals why she wants more women to take up the sport". www.mirror.co.uk. June 17, 2010.

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• Whenever I have friends over, we end up eating and talking and losing track of time, and, once in a while, singing karaoke. It reminds me of the family meals we had in Russia, which always lasted a very long time. That's a tradition I miss.

  Maria Sharapova

  Russia, Talking, Long

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• Peace should provide security. It should be durable. I'm ready to go far in making painful concessions. But there is one thing I will never make any concessions on and that's the security of the Israeli citizens and the very existence of the state of Israel. The Palestinians are losing time.

  Ariel Sharon

  Israel, Citizens, Painful

  "The Bulldozer". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2001.

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• The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.

  Adam Smith

  Real, Hype, Discipline

  Adam Smith (2010). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.138, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I've said this over and over, but I'll say it a million more times - I'm concerned more about the death of a bee than I am about terrorism. Because we're losing hives and bees by the millions because of such strong pesticides.

  Patti Smith

  Strong, Pesticides, Bees

  "Patti Smith: Forget terrorism, save the bees" by Caitlin McDevitt, www.politico.com. June 6, 2012.

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• You're always going to survive the pain of loss. I can live with that confidence inside of me.

  Hope Solo

  Pain, Loss, Defeat

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• I wasn't losing my focus but I was getting tired of focusing. What I was focusing on was becoming too routine, too ritual, not something that was interesting, new and exciting.

  Picabo Street

  Tired, Interesting, Focus

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• Politics is about a lot more than winning and losing. I think politics at its best is about compromise, shades of grey and about issues.

  Matt Taibbi

  Winning, Thinking, Issues

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• On the field I'm trying to play for the glory of God but then also I'm trying to give everything I have and win and compete. And so I think more than just winning or losing, I think He cares about where our hearts are when we're playing.

  Tim Tebow

  Heart, Winning, Thinking

  "Tim Tebow Discusses Faith and Football in the No Spin Zone". The O'Reilly Factor, www.foxnews.com. June 03, 2011.

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• We play a sport. It's a game. At the end of the day, that's all it is, is a game. It doesn't make you any better or any worse than anybody else. So by winning a game, you're no better. By losing a game, you're no worse. I think by keeping that mentality, it really keeps things in perspective for me to treat everybody the same.

  Tim Tebow

  Sports, Winning, Thinking

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• One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won't have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Sports, Winning, Vices

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.287, Pan Macmillan

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• I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Sports, Pain, Gambling

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• All gamblers lose regularly, but they rarely discuss it in public. Losing is bad for the image, dude. Nobody buys Hot Tips from Losers. Remember that.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Hot, Loser, Remember

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.227, Pan Macmillan

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• Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football fans, both addicts; and on some days, nothing else mattered.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Football, Fans, Loser

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• Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Memories, Inspiration, Moments

  Henry David Thoreau (1993). “A Year in Thoreau's Journal: 1851”, p.204, Penguin

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