Losing Quotes - Page 40

• Sometimes I truly fear that I am losing my mind. And if I did it it would be like flying blind.

  Howard Hughes

  Flying, Mind, Would Be

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• I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Plot, Fiction, Equilibrium

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• Over futile odds, and laughed at by the gods
  And now the final frame. Love is a losing game.

  Amy Winehouse

  Love Is, Odds, Games

  Song: Love is a Losing Game, Album: Back To Black, 2007

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• The most important thing in my life is Christ. He’s more important to me than winning or losing or whether I’m playing or not. Everything else is just a bonus.

  Tim Howard

  Christian, Winning, Jesus Christ

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• Winning or losing, it's always something special and something you'll remember, even more so when the match was as dramatic as it was today. It's even more memorable when I see my kids there with my wife and everything. That's what touched me the most, to be quite honest. The disappointment of the match itself went pretty quickly.

  Roger Federer

  Disappointment, Memorable, Kids

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• I have no sense of humor about losing

  Rafael Nadal

  Sense Of Humor

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• As a tennis player you can win and you can lose, and you have to be ready for both. I practised self-control as a kid. But as you get older they both - winning and losing - get easier.

  Rafael Nadal

  Kids, Winning, Player

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• Two weeks ago, I was in a fantastic situation, winning at Roland Garros. Now, losing in the first round, it's tough. The tour continues. Life continues. This is a sport of victories, not a sport of losses. Nobody remembers the losses. I don't want to remember the loss.

  Rafael Nadal

  Sports, Loss, Winning

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• Don't get too excited when I am winning, and don't get too depressed when I am losing. Just keep it cool.

  Marat Safin

  Winning, Excited

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• If you're losing, just be a man, be a man and lose as a man. Don't pretend that you are injured and then you start running around and start to hit winners, and then all of a sudden you pull the hands up in the air after winning the match. I mean, what kind of sportsman are you? What kind of man are you?

  Marat Safin

  Running, Mean, Winning

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

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• As a tennis player you have to get used to losing every week. Unless you win the tournament, you always go home as a loser. But you have to take the positive out of a defeat and go back to work. Improve to fail better.

  Stan Wawrinka

  Home, Winning, Player

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• I always try to find the positives in losing a match but it's not always easy.

  Stan Wawrinka

  Trying, Easy

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• Speaking as a man, it's not a woman's issue. Us men are tired of losing our women.

  Dan Quayle

  Stupid, Tired, Men

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• There's nothing to stop a man from writing unless that man stops himself. If a man truly desires to write, then he will. Rejection and ridicule will only strengthen him. And the longer he is held back the stronger he will become, like a mass of rising water against a dam. There is no losing in writing, it will make your toes laugh as you sleep, it will make you stride like a tiger, it will fire the eye and put you face to face with death. You will die a fighter, you will be honored in hell. The luck of the word. Go with it, send it.

  Charles Bukowski

  Writing, Sleep, Eye

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• People are only mean when they're threatened… and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does. Even people who have jobs in our economy are threatened, because they worry about losing them. And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Jobs, Mean, People

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• Losing can persuade you to change what doesn't need to be changed, and winning can convince you everything is fine even if you are on the brink of disaster.

  Garry Kasparov

  Winning, Needs, Chess

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.23, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as a I get older, life is totally about losing everything.

  Mike Tyson

  Losing Everything, Acquiring Things, Life Is

  "Tyson can't beat Father Time" by Chuck Johnson, usatoday30.usatoday.com. June 12, 2005.

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• Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Philosophical, Love Is, Rivals

  Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.105, Arcade Publishing

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• Losing gets old. It's just been a heck of a month, to be honest with you.

  Alan Trammell

  Months, Honest, Being Honest

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• I hate losing more than I like winning

  Chris Paul

  Hate, Winning, I Hate

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• Our government has become too responsive to trivial or ephemeral concerns, often at the expense of more important concerns or an erosion of our liberty, and it has made policy priorities more dependent on where TV journalists happen to point their cameras. . . . As a nation we have lost our sense of tragedy, a recognition that bad things happen to good people. A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and to find some villain for every dramatic accident, risks an even larger loss of life and liberty.

  William A. Niskanen

  Jobs, Loss, Government

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• Rick Blaine: We'll always have Paris. We didn't have Paris, we lost it until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night. Ilsa Lund: When I said I would never leave you. . . . Rick Blaine: And you never will. But I got a job to do too. Where I'm going you can't follow. What I've got to do, you can't be any part of. Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that. Now, now . . . here's looking at you kid.

  Humphrey Bogart

  Jobs, Crazy, Kids

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• The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them, and they make us despair in losing them.

  Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

  Giving, Promise, Despair

  "A Mother's Advice to Her Daughter". Book by Anne Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, 1728.

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• And writers say, as the most forward bud
  Is eaten by the canker ere it blow,
  Even so by love the young and tender wit
  Is turn'd to folly, blasting in the bud,
  Losing his verdure even in the prime,
  And all the fair effects of future hopes.

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, Stupidity, Bud

  William Shakespeare (1858). “The Plays of Shakespeare”, p.4

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• People kill what they fear. They burned, and drowned, and hanged those they saw as witches, the devil's servants: the wise women and the cunning men, the unfortunate, the lost and the strange

  Neil Gaiman

  Wise, Fear, Men

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