Losing Quotes - Page 30

• The more you lose, the more positive you have to become. When you're winning, you can ride players harder because their self-esteem is high. If you are losing and you try to be tough, you're asking for dissension.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Self Esteem, Winning

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• Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, Winning, Coaching

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.194, Crown Business

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• Losing is only temporary and not encompassing. You must simply study it, learn from it, and try hard not to lose the same way again. Then you must have the self-control to forget about it.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Self, Coaching

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• The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Motivational, Sports, Baseball

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• This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

  Orison Swett Marden

  Men, Lost Everything, Tests

  Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

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• It is very important not to think about losing.

  Venus Williams

  Thinking, Tennis, Important

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• All my career I've gone to teams on the decline. I went to Quebec when they were losing the Stastny brothers. I went to Edmonton after they lost Gretzky and Messier. I went to Anaheim when it was an expansion team. I came to Montreal after they'd won the Cup and were headed down. I was beginning to think it was me.

  Ron Tugnutt

  Brother, Team, Hockey

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• I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Technology, Suffering, Progress

  1921 Speech, 13 Oct.

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• Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest that intense, eager, longing, craving, insistent, demanding, ravenous Desire which is akin to the persistent, insistent, ardent, overwhelming desire of the drowning man for a breath of air; of the shipwrecked or desert-lost man for a drink of water; of the famished man for bread and meat.

  Robert Collier

  Men, Overwhelming Desire, Air

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• It is true that when we take chances, we stand to lose. But it is also true that we will never win anything if we never even enter the game. Lucky people are aware of the possibility of losing, and indeed they may lose often. But since the chances they take are small, the losses tend to be small. By being willing to accept small losses they put themselves in position to make large gains.

  Max Gunther

  Loss, Winning, Games

  Max Gunther (2010). “The Luck Factor: Why Some People Are Luckier Than Others and How You Can Become One of Them”, p.166, Harriman House Limited

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• Losing is essential to anyone's success. The more you lose, the more you want to win.

  Brett Hull

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hockey

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• We're scared of losing. That's why we win. We know what it's like to lose and we hate it. We enjoy being champions too much.

  Bob Bourne

  Hate, Hockey, Winning

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• It's not about winning or losing a competition, it's about beating the doubt from within yourself and knowing at the end of each day you are one step closer to your goals.

  Jonathan Horton

  Motivational, Gymnastics, Winning

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• By continually increasing the difficulty of the sport, we are discouraging younger athletes from starting and continuing in the sport. But most importantly, we are losing the beauty of our sport. We do not want gymnastics to lose what makes it so great - its artistic beauty.

  Svetlana Boginskaya

  Sports, Athlete, Gymnastics

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• The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.

  George P. Shultz

  Softball, Sports, Volleyball

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• Losing is the great American sin.

  Jerome Holtzman

  Sports, Great American, Motivational Sports

  Jerome Holtzman (1978). “No Cheering in the Press Box”

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• It's not whether you win or lose - but whether I win or lose.

  Sandy Lyle

  Sports, Funny Inspirational, Golf

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• It's the attitude of the players, not their skills, that is the biggest factor in determining whether you win or lose.

  Harry Sinden

  Success, Sports, Volleyball

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• Boxers are going away and not getting decisions and are losing, so it's not looking good for us, is it, as a nation? Thanks for pointing that out. It's put even more pressure on me now. I don't mind that at all. I love pressure.

  Carl Froch

  Sports, Decision, Mind

  "Carl Froch ready to roll again and end sorry year for Brits on a high" by Kevin Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2011.

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• And in that moment I possessed and lost the whole world and everything in it and was left with the feeling and the knowledge, which is love, that no matter how we give ourselves we always end up losing. That to love is to lose, the moment we agree to the bargain. And that, being human, we keep standing there wanting to lose more.

  Ann Rinaldi

  Love You, Love Is, Giving

  Ann Rinaldi (2011). “Time Enough for Drums”, p.125, Laurel Leaf

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• And I met your baby moms last night. We took a picture together, I hope she frames it. And I was drinking at the Palms last night. And ended up losing everything that I came with.

  Drake

  Life, Mom, Baby

  Song: Over My Dead Body, Album: Take Care, 2011

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• When all else is lost, the future still remains.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Life, Future, Lost

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• One cannot run from a challenge without losing. To flee is signing a death warrant to dignity and character, and, having run, there is no return; one is a weakling forever. Meeting a challenge, though one may be defeated, gives strength, character, and a certain assurance that regardless of outcome, one will survive or go down fighting.

  Sigurd F. Olson

  Life, Running, Character

  "Reflections from the North Country".

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• The world's No. 1 tennis player spends 90 percent of his time winning, while the world's No. 1 golfer spends 90 percent of his time losing. Golfers are great losers.

  David Feherty

  Golf, Winning, Player

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• If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Time, Work, Soul

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