Quotes About Losing

Has anybody noticed that we haven't won a game since we ate that chicken á la king?

Because there are so many ways to analyze the market, you will inevitably find some indicator from some method of analysis that can be used to justify holding a position. This is true for both profitable and unprofitable positions: you will keep a profitable position longer than originally intended and possibly have it turn into a loss, and you will rationalize holding a losing position far beyond what you were originally willing to lose.

He's beginning to like me. I am a better and better audience as I get numbed, and although I've played this game of Impress You (and won it, too--though I don't like either of the prizes; winning is too much like losing) I'm too tired to go on playing tonight.

Remember, losing feels about twice as bad as winning feels good; being wrong feels about twice as bad as being right feels good. We are in a better place when we don't have to live at the edges. Euphoria or misery, with no choices in between, is not a very self-compassionate way to live.

If you're going to lose to somebody, losing to a guy like Brock Lesnar is not something that people will laugh at. Brock is arguably one of the top ten fighters on Earth.

Even if I play backgammon with my coach, I hate to lose. I won't talk to him for, like, an hour. So imagine how it feels when you lose at tennis. That makes me determined not to lose because I hate it so much. Even at a set down and match point, I always believe I can come back.

I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive.

There will be blood, he said quietly, blood and death. You should not have come. Since when was a woman afraid of blood? she asked. The problem is not only Sean's. It is mine also. If there is to be blood, I will share in the letting or the losing of it.

Trouble with me was, I was a mighty poor hater. There was satisfaction in winning, but winning would have been better if nobody had to lose. That's the way I've always felt, I guess.

I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather lose with Socrates, let us say, than win with Lenin.

I drew my strength from fear. Fear of losing. I don't remember the games I won, only the games I lost.

There's no success without failure and no winning without losing.

Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.

Yes, my love, who soever lives, loses, . . . but he also wins. [Ger., Ja, meine Liebe, wer lebt, verliebt . . . aber er gewinnt auch.]

I don't think you're going to be a success in anything if you think about losing, whether it's in sports or in politics.

I think that sometimes the difference between winning and losing, success and failure, is this gray line between will, passion and self-belief that says, 'I'm going to do this'.

From my point of view, which is the point of view of no illusions, there is only winning and losing. You might as well be a winner.

People use ideas of non-duality as an escape from reality. It is very easy to say there is no winning and losing and justify the fact that you didn't do a very good job.

I say that love is a lottery in which he who wins, wins death! You are very fortunate to have lost, believe me, my dear d'Artagnan. And if I have any counsel to give, it is, always lose!

Is there anything you do badly?" "Lose." She gave her sweetest smile. "I swear I'm the worst loser in the world.

It's not life or death it's a game and at the end of the game there is going to be a winner and a loser.

If you make a mistake, your opponent can punish, and you end up losing the game.

We say there are people who have worked in campaigns who say that they have lost some - and we call those folks operatives, managers, strategists, consultants; and then there are people who work in campaigns and say that they have never lost, and we call them liars.

When you win everything is great but when you're losing nobody wants to know you - except for the people that really love you.