Loser Quotes - Page 29

• Winners will be losers if they don't support the losers.

  Arthur Hailey

  Support, Winner, Ifs

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• Perfection' is man's ultimate illusion. It simply doesn't exist in the universe.... If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.

  David D. Burns

  Success, Men, Perfection

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• One of my friends once saw another guy's (criminal) record and said, 'Look, this guy is a born troublemaker, just a loser.' I had to tell him, 'No, that's my record - and it doesn't include my juvenile history.'

  Mike Tyson

  Fear, Motivation, Boxing

  "Tyson: 'My Whole Life Has Been a Waste'". usatoday30.usatoday.com. June 02, 2005.

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• Well, this week for example, I was just in Los Angeles making a documentary for German television on whales. They had tried to get me in England where they missed me.

  Wavy Gravy

  Whales, Example, Television

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• In radio I had one, maybe two people who cared about getting it done. I'd really be a loser if I forgot where I came from. So I show them the love. And how hard is it really to be interested in someone's life?

  Billy Bush

  Two, People, Done

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Let us see whether it is the New Order or me who will be the loser before Indonesian history. I have won. The New Order has fallen and my writings have been translated into 40 languages.

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer

  Writing, Order, Language

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• We have often had this particular exchange about climate and landscape and why we both feel so lonely here uprooted. It was what each of us had wanted of course.Besides wanting to experience a place we hated, we wanted to be insomniacs and loners, losers and drop-outs. To know the sky was the only location of meaning and joy left to us.

  Fanny Howe

  Lonely, Sky, Joy

  Fanny Howe (2000). “Indivisible”, Semiotext

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• It's correct that I'm a bad loser. Why should I lie? If I was good at losing I wouldn't be in Formula 1. I think it's more honest to act how you really feel than pretending to be the smiling boy who actually isn't in the mood to smile.

  Sebastian Vettel

  Lying, Boys, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the tip of his tongue an explanation which he trots out to show that it wasn't his own fault at all.... Hardly one loser has the manliness to say frankly, "I was wrong.

  B. C. Forbes

  Tongue, Faults, Blame

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• Competition is healthy ... but there is more to life than winning or we should nearly all be losers

  Charles Handy

  Winning, Competition, Healthy

  Charles Handy (2011). “The Empty Raincoat: Making Sense of the Future”, p.11, Random House

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• He who thinks to save anything by his religion, besides his soul, will be a loser in the end.

  Joel Barlow

  Thinking, Soul, Religion

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• The turkeys that most Americans eat for Thanksgiving are turkeys - losers that are mass produced and bland.

  Marian Burros

  Thanksgiving, Turkeys, Mass

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• The CrossFit program is broad, general and inclusive, and most of all, the movements can be scaled down to any level of athlete. Just watch what I do with it on 'The Biggest Loser.'

  Bob Harper

  Athlete, Watches, Movement

  "I Drank the CrossFit Kool-Aid" by Bob Harper, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 7, 2013.

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• There's some way in which we would prefer not to see very clearly the immense gifts and intelligence of some of the people who live in our most abject conditions. Maybe there are some things at work in deciding who gets to be society's winners and who gets to be society's losers that don't have to do with merit.

  Katherine Boo

  People, Way, Merit

  Interview with Steve Inskeep, kasu.org. November 15, 2012.

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• Popular kids are just a powerful union of needy, insecure losers.

  Jay Bell

  Powerful, Kids, Insecure

  Jay Bell (2012). “Something Like Winter (m/m romance)”, p.47, Jay Bell

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• The federal government has been a proven failure in picking winners and losers in the energy sector.

  Mike Pompeo

  Government, Energy, Winner

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• I often hear that Gintama is very kind to losers. The thought that “a failure like me can still keep living when I read this manga.” But I didn't intentionally draw losers. I've been told that it's because I'm a loser too. Well, fine. But honestly, I think everyone's a loser. The only difference is the skin we put on. Once you open the lid and look inside, everyone's the same.

  Hideaki Sorachi

  Thinking, Differences, Skins

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• It's nice to be in first place. But just because you're not on a winner doesn't mean you're a loser.

  Joe Torre

  Nice, Mean, Firsts

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• I should say many things. Mexico has been one of the losers of the 20th century. We tried many different alternatives to development and unfortunately we have 40 percent of the population poor; we have a per capita income that is extremely low.

  Vicente Fox

  Population, Different, Income

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• Delays, disappointments and defeats cause quitters to give up in resignation; losers, to give in the frustration; winners, to come through with determination.

  William Arthur Ward

  Determination, Giving Up, Disappointment

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• If we get it right, there need not be losers.

  John Anderson

  Needs, Ifs

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• Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Real, Character, Eye

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• I like to do little obsessed losers, or people who are in over their head, or people who are trying to figure stuff out, or guys whose girlfriends leave them and they don't quite get it. Guys who just don't quite get it.

  Bruce McCulloch

  Girlfriend, People, Guy

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• The British merchants represented that they received some profit indeed from Virginia and South Carolina, as well as the West Indies; but as for the rest of this continent, they were constant losers in trade.

  Ezra Stiles

  West Indies, Virginia, South Carolina

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• Their argument is that most shows are losers, which is true, but it's also disingenuous to say, 'We are not going to take the risk unless it is totally covered by the few successful shows that are out there.'

  Dick Wolf

  Successful, Risk, Argument

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