Losing Quotes - Page 6

• Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

  Bill Tilden

  Change, Winning, Games

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.

  Alex Trebek

  Sunset, Winning, Gambling

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• No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

  Richard Petty

  Positive, Attitude, Sunset

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• Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser.

  O. J. Simpson

  Loser, Gracious, Show Me

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• I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing.

  Eddie Bernice Johnson

  Feels

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• If you're afraid of losing, then you daren't win.

  Bjorn Borg

  Winning, Ifs

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• I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself.

  Ike Turner

  Confidence, Tired, Fighting

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• If the truth be known, we are on the verge of losing an entire generation of our young people, killing and dying in the streets of America.

  Ron Dellums

  America, People, Dying

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• You can't be everything to everybody, but you can be everything to somebody. Don't lose the ones you love trying to please the world

  Trent Shelton

  Love, Dope, Trying

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• At the end of the day, anybody who thinks there's a reward for nothing, ends up losing.

  Kerry Stokes

  Wisdom, Thinking, Greed

  Interview with Steve Sailah, www.abc.net.au. June 2, 2000.

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• The goal of winning is not losing two times in a row.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Winning, Two, Goal

  "Better Than a Management Book" by Marty Nemko, www.sfgate.com. October 17, 2004.

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• Many things are lost for want of asking.

  George Herbert

  Asking, Want, Lost

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.321

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• No matter if you win or lose, the most important thing in life is to enjoy what you have.

  Dong Dong

  Winning, Things In Life, Important

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• Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

  Samuel Butler

  Funny, Sweet, Father

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks”

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• After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.

  Barbara Cartland

  Funny, Birthday, Women

  Quoted in Times (London), 6 Oct. 1993.

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• Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

  Jackie Chan

  Technology, Culture, Cinema

  Twitter post from Jun 23, 2014

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• It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Funny, People, Risk

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.224, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

  Aldous Huxley

  Sunset, Dark, Obscurity

  1925 Those Barren Leaves, pt.1, ch.1.

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• One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It's a revolving door.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Doors, Symptoms, Turnover

  "Building a winning boardroom team". www.cnn.com. May 16, 2005.

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  If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Birthday, Son, Men

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• I was just tired of losing... Life was passing me by.

  Serena Williams

  Tired, Passing, Passings

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• I know that I am leaving the winning side for the losing side, but it is better to die on the losing side than to live under Communism.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Winning, Leaving, Sides

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.541, Regnery Publishing

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• [It is b]etter to die on the losing side than to live under communisim.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Sides, Socialism, Dies

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.541, Regnery Publishing

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• Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose.

  Lynn Davies

  Life, Sports, Athlete

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• For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in

  Ian Thorpe

  Motivational, Sports, Swimming

  Ian Thorpe (2012). “This Is Me: The Autobiography”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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