Losing Quotes - Page 5

• There are far more important things in life than making a putt or missing a putt or winning a championship or losing a championship.

  Bernhard Langer

  Sports, Winning, Things In Life

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• If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment.

  Chris Evert

  Winning, Accomplishment, Tennis

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• The United States and Arizona are both losing jobs to offshore locations.

  Janet Napolitano

  Jobs, United States, Location

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• Guys who might not be superstars but because of their hustle, because of the little things they do, these are the guys who can really mean the difference between winning and losing.

  Dwyane Wade

  Success, Basketball, Mean

  The IGN Interview, www.ign.com. August 26, 2005.

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• I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg.

  Judy Holliday

  Legs, Born, New Yorkers

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• Bargain... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.

  Kin Hubbard

  Money, Thinking, Stores

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• You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

  Joe Paterno

  Sports, Confidence, Football

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• You never advance without losing something en passant... you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.

  Ninette de Valois

  Dance, Ballet, Progress

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• Ultimately, if you can say that I'm a bad owner and we're winning championships, I can live with that. But if we're not making the playoffs and we're spending and losing money, then I have to look in the mirror and say maybe I'm not taking the necessary steps to doing what it takes to run an organization.

  Michael Jordan

  Running, Winning, Mirrors

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• It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.

  Garry Kasparov

  Games, Feel Good, Feelings

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• It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

  Vince Lombardi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Vince Lombardi, Jr. (2012). “What It Takes to Be Number One”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Loss

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.

  J. B. Priestley

  War, Years, Hymns

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• I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Moving On, Death

  "The Diary of Anais Nin: Vol. 1 (1931-1934)" by Anais Nin, (p. 190), March 19, 1969.

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• I do believe, as my father once said, that "No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out."

  Al Gore

  Failure, Loss, Victory And Defeat

  Al Gore's Presidential Concession speech, www.americanrhetoric.com. December 13, 2000.

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• I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

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• The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Encouragement, Freedom, Business

  "The Power of Purpose: Find Meaning, Live Longer, Better". Book by Richard Leider, p. 35., 2010.

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• Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, people—they always go away, sooner or later. You can’t hold them, any more than you can hold moonlight. But if they’ve touched you, if they’re inside you, then they’re still yours. The only things you ever really have are the ones you hold inside your heart.

  Bruce Coville

  Love, Sympathy, Heart

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• There are only two types of player-those who keep their nerves under control and win championships, and those who do not.

  Harry Vardon

  Sports, Golf, Winning

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• Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.

  Lance Armstrong

  Hurt, Two, Scary

  Interview with Kevin Cook, www.playboy.com. June 2005.

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  I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.

  Ty Cobb

  Inspirational Sports, Fire, Interest

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• Like everyone else, I've had moments when I've felt that I've been losing my grip.

  Russell Crowe

  Moments, Felt

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

  Eddie Bernice Johnson

  Feels

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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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