Can't Win Quotes - Page 6

• You can't win all the time. There are guys out there who are better than you.

  Yogi Berra

  Sports, Winning, Guy

  Yogi Berra (2001). “When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes”

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• I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic is very important to get the audience on your side. As for a competition, you can't win without strong technical content.

  Evgeni Plushenko

  Strong, Winning, Bad Ass

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• Italians can't win the game against you, but you can lose the game against the Italians.

  Johan Cruijff

  Soccer, Winning, Games

  "'You play football with your head, and your legs are there to help you': Johan Cruyff in quotes", www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2016.

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• It's just the stupidest law possible... You're just making criminals out of people who aren't engaged in criminal activity. And we're spending zillions of dollars trying to fight a war we can't win! We could make zillions, just legalize it and tax it like we do liquor. It's stupid.

  Morgan Freeman

  War, Stupid, Fighting

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• Can't win without talent, you know.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Winning, Talent

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• You can't win unless you learn how to lose.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Sports, Winning

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• To THINK BIG and to use our talents doesn't mean we won't have difficulties along the way. We will - we all do... If we choose to see the obstacles in our path as barriers, we stop trying. "We can't win," we moan. "They won't let us win."

  Benjamin Carson

  Mean, Winning, Thinking

  "Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story". Book by Benjamin Carson, 1990.

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• I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Lonely, Winning

  Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

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• I'm behind you." I spun to see Derek. "I can't win," he said. "You're as skittish as a kitten.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Winning, Behind You, Kitten

  Kelley Armstrong (2008). “The Summoning: Number 1 in series”, p.177, Hachette UK

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• Never be passive. Victories happen when you take charge of a game. You can't win by playing not to lose".

  Karen Kingsbury

  Winning, Games, Victory

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• Annie turned away, her eyes glittering. 'Here's what no one tells you,' she said. 'When you deliver a fetus, you get a death certificate, but not a birth certificate. And afterward, your milk comes in, and there's nothing you can do to stop it.' She looked up at me. 'You can't win. Either you have the baby and wear your pain on the outside, or you don't have the baby, and you keep that ache in you forever. I know I didn't do the wrong thing. But I don't feel like I did the right thing, either.

  Jodi Picoult

  Baby, Pain, Eye

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• No, I don't think my presence will cause an increase in black attendance at Cleveland. People come out to see the players. When do you see a manager anyway? When he's out on the field arguing with the umpires, making a fool of himself and you know you can't win, and when he brings out the line-up card.

  Frank Robinson

  Winning, Player, Thinking

  Biography/Personal, www.imdb.com.

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• We are not going to win because you have a new head coach, any more than you are going to fix a flat tire by changing the driver. We will win the minute all of us get rid of excuses as to why we can't win and stop wallowing in self-pity.

  Lou Holtz

  Winning, Self, Tire

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• People always say you can't win if you don't play

  Lev Yilmaz

  Winning, Play, People

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• You can't win every battle! You must have the word Defeat in your dictionary; if not, defeat will triumph even more strongly!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Winning, Battle, Triumph

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• You can't win with sin.

  Fraser Young

  Winning, Sin, Can't Win

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• People are already talking about the next presidential election. There's stories all over about who might run. At a recent speech, a prominent Democrat said that Hillary Clinton should not run because she can't win. Immediately after the speech, Hillary told her husband to shut up.

  Conan O'Brien

  Running, Husband, Winning

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• Grind it out. Hanging on just one second longer than your competition makes you the winner. If you can't win, make the fellow ahead of you break the record. The mile has a classic symmetry....It's a play in four acts.

  John Landy

  Winning, Play, Competition

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• Getting life insurance is like making a bet you can't win. If you live, you don't get the money. If you die, you don't get to enjoy the money.

  Oliver Gaspirtz

  Winning, Enjoy, Can't Win

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• Life is like a tennis game. You can't win without serving.

  Arthur Ashe

  Winning, Games, Tennis

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• Regarding the Laws of Thermodynamics: "(1) You can't win, (2) you can't break even, and (3) you can't get out of the game.

  Dennis Overbye

  Winning, Law, Games

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• If Hillary can't win the nomination - and it's clearly very, very hard for her - she's basically a stalking horse for McCain. She's preparing the demographic ground for McCain, by getting white working-class Democrats used to (if you will) not voting for Obama.

  Rich Lowry

  Horse, Winning, Class

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• If the government is vulnerable to public opinion, then famines are a dreadfully bad thing to have. You can’t win many elections after a famine, and you don’t like being criticized by newspapers, opposition parties in parliament, and so on. Democracy gives the government an immediate political incentive to act.

  Amartya Sen

  Party, Winning, Government

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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• When people come at me they can't win, they think they can, but they can't. I'll just walk away.

  Danny Trejo

  Winning, Thinking, People

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• We can't win - if we nominate someone - if we nominate someone that half of the Republican Party hates, we're going to be fighting against each other all the way to November [of 2016]. We will never win that way.

  Marco Rubio

  Hate, Party, Fighting

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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