Top 100 Can't Win Quotes
#1. My experience is that you can't possibly win against whatever the tidal wave is that's coming at you.
Lorenzo Di Bonaventura
#2. You can't outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little sidebets about the outcome of life. either you wade in and risk everything you have to play the game or you don't play at all. and if u don't play u can't win.
Judith McNaught
#3. You too can win Nobel Prizes. Study diligently. Respect DNA. Don't smoke. Don't drink. Avoid women and politics. That's my formula.
George Wells Beadle
#4. Don't get me wrong. I don't take anything for granted. But it seems like the better I play, the more attention I get. And I can't get away from it. You play great, you get attention. But I hate attention. It is weird. I'm in a bind. The more you win, the more they come.
Derrick Rose
#5. I have found a way to beat myself
I win by losing, something like that
I'm told that I'm stupid
So ok, I'll be stupid
If I can't register the pain
Then it's not there
I'm not so stupid after all
I'll show them
Henry Rollins
#6. You don't have to win to be a winner. If you give 100 percent, getting yourself mentally and physically prepared to play the game, if you look in the mirror and can say you give it everything to win, that's it. You're not going to win every time.
Duke Snider
#7. Loyalty must be forged - to him, to his: stronger than iron, from experience, from risk - it can't be bought, or taught, or promised before the fact. Allegiance must be earned so it will hold, win or lose.
Janet Morris
#8. Sometimes when they all talk I feel like shouting, 'so your life went wrong - why assume mine will? Maybe it'll work for me!' But this would only invite a pitying smile, and a 'she'll learn' comment. You can't win with them. You can't even compete.
Kate Cann
#9. You can't win everybody to the Lord, but you can always win somebody.
John R. Rice
#10. Even the good guys,' she said, 'can't win all the time.
Witi Ihimaera
#11. It's better to fight because if you don't fight, you can't win. Besides, even when you don't win, you can change the game.
Elizabeth Warren
#12. I can say I didn't win, but I can't say that I didn't try.
Maribel C. Pagan
#13. Yes, I prosecute bastards like him, make them pay for what they did to innocent victims who can't fight for themselves. And every time I win a case, I not only win for the victim, but also for me.
Buffy Andrews
#14. If you can't joke about giant french ticklers and gas powered dildos in a fucking locker room then the terrorists win, E. Our freedoms are eroding. I'll pick up lube and condoms instead. Bring your hand. It's the only action you're getting.
Celia Aaron
#15. The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't.
Jimmy Doolittle
#16. The formula for prison is a lack of space counterbalanced by a surplus of time. This is what really bothers you, that you can't win. Prison is lack of alternatives, and the telescopic predictability of the future is what drives you crazy.
Joseph Brodsky
#17. There is nothing in this life that can destroy you but yourself. Bad things happen to everyone, but when they do, you can't just fall apart and die. You have to fight back. If you don't, you're the one who loses in the end. But if you do keep going and fight back, you win.
Alexandra Monir
#18. Today, some chess games can't go in 40 minutes. One game not every time can finish fast, sometimes it's difficult to win and the ways are odd.
Deyth Banger
#19. It seems to me that man has engaged in a blind and fearful struggle out of a past he can't remember, into a future he can't foresee nor understand. And man has met and defeated every obstacle, every enemy except one. He cannot win over himself. How mankind hates himself.
John Steinbeck
#20. In a scene [where the improvisers must interact] without the letter S, the audience is waiting for you to lose - so they can laugh at you. Don't try to win.
Keith Johnstone
#21. With the skills that I have and with my commitment to getting better I don't see any reason I can't win every single fight I'm in.
Daniel Cormier
#22. Life is like a tennis game. You can't win without serving.
Arthur Ashe
#23. See, here's the thing. Morgan was right: you can't win them all. But that doesn't mean that you give up. Not ever. Morgan never said that part - he was too busy living it.
Jim Butcher
#24. I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up.
Leo Durocher
#25. When you promise yourself something, make a commitment, you can't give up. Because, when you're in the gym, you have to fulfill the promise you made to yourself. The people who can self motivate - in any field - are usually the ones who win. Regardless of talent.
Tom Platz
#26. Don't write us off. Nobody thought we'd win the World Series in 2005, but we did. There are years when we think we're great, and we're bad. I mean, the funny thing about this game is that you can't figure it out.
Jerry Reinsdorf
#27. You just can't win. Men have very recent land mines in their heads. Women have recorded conversations and photographs in their heads from 15 years ago.
Denis Leary
#28. You win one and then you win another. You feel more comfortable and more confident, and it snowballs. You can't wait to get to the next hole and play better.
Vijay Singh
#29. I don't think you ever will yourself to win. I think you prepare yourself the best you can, get yourself in the best mindset you can get in, and go after it.
Jack Nicklaus
#30. I can't say, 'It doesn't matter if you win or lose.' It's not true. You go in to win.
Katarina Witt
#31. You can't win unless you try to win, but you can lose by trying not to lose.
Jack Campbell
#32. You can't win if nobody catches the ball in the outfield. You're only as good as the team you have behind you.
Jim Palmer
#33. Apollymi keeps a tight rein on them. (Kat)
Death to the bitch-goddess! May she die in a flaming pit of Charonte spit! (Xirena)
Damn, Kat, you can't win for losing. Is there anyone, other than you, who actually likes your family? (Sin)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#34. Feast of the Holy Innocents The most thrilling thing you can ever do is win someone to Christ. And it's contagious. Once you do it, you don't want to stop.
Luis Palau
#35. I don't care for sex. I find it an embarrassing, dull exercise. I prefer sports, where you can win.
Norm MacDonald
#36. You can't win for losing. Either you fulfill their stereotype of being a radical 60's person or you've sold out. In fact, of course, millions of people who were active in the 60's are doing work on issues that try to reflect their values.
Bernadine Dohrn
#37. Sometimes earning awards doesn't matter as much as earning revenue or profit, or having a good response from the audience. No matter how many awards you win, if you can't earn any profit from your movie, if the audience doesn't like it, then it doesn't matter how many awards you get.
Stephen Chow
#38. If our team is playing well and winning, it doesn't really matter to me if I am scoring points or not. For me though the more I can help offensively the better our chances are to win, so I just push myself to get better and hope it continues for the rest of the year.
Eric Staal
#39. You can't win on innovation unless you have a way to communicate it to customers.
Steve Jobs
#40. Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes.
Frank Abagnale
#41. I don't know why I keep saying this, and I don't know why I keep using their names ... And I'm not dogging them. I'm not slandering them. I'm not saying they are bad musicians. But how can Taylor Swift or Justin Timberlake win for R&B and funk? They are pop singers.
Sharon Jones
#42. You can't be great at everything, but you are world-class at something. Go. Figure out what that is. It's how you win.
Josh Linkner
#43. We can't win friends with a scowling face and an upbraiding voice.
Dale Carnegie
#44. It is one of the secrets of happiness that you know which battles you can win and which you can't.
Robert B. Parker
#45. On ambition, goal setting and competition - it doesn't matter if you lose, but you can't win if you don't play the game.
Aaron Lauritsen
#46. You can have the top stars to bring the attention, you can have the best stadium, you can have the best facilities, you can have the most beautiful project in terms of marketing and all this kind of thing. But if you don't win ... All the work these people are doing is forgotten.
Jose Mourinho
#47. It is the things we can't afford to lose that make us fight until we win."
~ Shrouded in Pompei
Lisa Fantino
#48. Self-esteem can't win you a race if you're not in shape.
Louis Zamperini
#49. Someone said I wasn't attractive enough. People say those things, but they make you stronger. Then you can win an Emmy and think, ha, ha, ha.
Allison Janney
#50. If you can't win with words then show them a good example!
Stephen Richards
#51. Tam Lin says rabbits give up when they're caught by coyotes [ ... ]. He says they consent to die because their animals and can't understand hope. But humans are different. They fight against death no matter how bad things seem, and sometimes, even when everything's against them, they win.
Nancy Farmer
#52. It's funny that it all becomes about clothes. It's bizarre. You work your butt off and then you win an award and it's all about your dress. You can't get away from it.
Reese Witherspoon
#53. You didn't just accidentally win my favor," I dispute, slowly shaking my
forehead against his.
"You earned it. Now, if I can just save your life twenty or thirty more times ... We might actually be able to call it even.
M.A. George
#55. You can't be in debt and win. It doesn't work.
Dave Ramsey
#56. We can learn from past failures and mistakes, but we shouldn't get stuck there. We can keep future goals in mind, but we shouldn't get stuck there, either. The only way to reach our potential is to focus on what we must do now - this moment, this day - to perform effectively and win.
Joe Torre
#57. Maybe there's a little girl who thinks she can be an Olympic athlete, and she sees all the things I struggled through to get here. Yeah, I didn't walk away with a medal or run away with a medal, but I think there's lessons to be learned when you win and lessons to be learned when you lose.
Lolo Jones
#58. Can't win without talent, you know.
Al McGuire
#59. Look, I won in high school, I won a national championship in college, I want to win one in the NBA. But winning a gold medal, I don't think anything can top that.
Carmelo Anthony
#60. Be smart! Fight the battles you can win and accept the ones you can't. That's how you survive.
C.J. Roberts
#61. I do want to sell as many records and win as many awards as I can. The awards though, they don't necessarily determine if you're good or not. I know that now.
Anthony Hamilton
#62. 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
Jodi Picoult
#63. But if we hide ourselves away, afraid to grow and learn, we might wake up in the flames of the ignorance that burns and we'll never be much more than only casualties of war in a struggle we can't win if we have no faith to begin. We've got to tip the lid and let some sunlight in.
Dawud Wharnsby Ali
#64. You're in a fight to the death. This isn't a
boxing match. You can't win by scoring the most points.
Jeaniene Frost
#65. My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can't imagine how often I've tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne - to beat her down, hide her.
Anne Frank
#66. You can't turn the ball over and expect to win.
Aaron Rodgers
#67. Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane.
Haruki Murakami
#68. You can't win all the time. There are guys out there who are better than you.
Yogi Berra
#69. You can't do anything to help your team win when you don't play.
Freddy Adu
#70. I was not a Democrat; I was an independent. Here's the thing: You can't win that way. But I didn't know that.
Kyrsten Sinema
#71. There's other ways to protect yourself and your family, Arlen. Wisdom. Prudence. Humility. It's not brave to fight a battle you can't win.
Peter V. Brett
#72. You can't win without being patient. You know why? Success comes when you value time by using it profitably. It comes over time; delay is not denial!
Israelmore Ayivor
#73. I've turned over a new leaf. On TV, Kenny Wallace said I was a pessimist after Charlotte, so I got mad. Now I am so excited about coming back that I just can't stand it. I wish we were starting tomorrow and I'm going to win! That's the new me.
Mark Martin
#74. We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.
Douglas Adams
#75. Pain only hurts when you are looking for a reason to quit. You don't feel a thing when you know you can still win.
Dane Cook
#76. Gortrek gave him a look. 'Never get into a war of words with a poet, Ironbreaker. You can't win.
Nathan Long
#77. Not to decide is to decide. Letting something go until it 'decides itself' is Life by Default. You don't want to live that way. So choose. Choose right now. Stop worrying about what you can 'lose' or how you can 'win' and just follow your joy. Where does your joy say you should go?
Neale Donald Walsch
#78. When you're 0-2 in the Super Bowl, they say unkind things about you. They say, 'He can't win the big one.' And that's the worst thing that can be said about you.
Don Shula
#79. The fastest runners don't always win the race and the greatest heroes don't always win the battles. But just keep running and fighting if that's all you can do. Never lose faith. And one day, you just might attain all that you hoped for and ... more.
Jose N. Harris
#80. The way I figure it, if you can't tell I'm high by looking at me, I win.
Marc Maron
#81. A serious pacifist approach can't win wars against enemies whose only program is violence. That doesn't mean I think the US has fought terrorists so wisely most of the time since 9/11. But there are some enemies that need to be destroyed by force lest they destroy much much more.
Philip Gourevitch
#82. I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.
Dr. Seuss
#83. Setting aside its failure to win over most people, the Bible can't even communicate clearly to the people who already cherish it deeply and believe in it with all their heart.
Guy P. Harrison
#84. I didn't care at all about losing, but I just didn't want Emerson to feel bad, You know, I didn't win, but Felicity won, and when you come to the set next time, you can give her a big congratulations.
Teri Hatcher
#85. I don't think you can really expect to win a hockey game giving up three power-play goals. In reality, you cant give up those and that's the difference in the hockey game.
Randy Carlyle
#86. It is. It's all over. The system is fucked. You can't win by doing things the right way in this world. No. There is no right and wrong. There's only what you get away with and what you don't.
C.D. Reiss
#87. If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#88. You realize that you can't win 'em all. You try to win 'em all; you get frustrated, but you gotta have a short fuse either way. Success in the NFL is just as deadly as allowing yourself to kinda wallow in sorrow. It works both ways.
Jon Beason
#89. Then what's the point of trying if you can't even win?"
"You win in lots of different ways," Asher said. "Lots of little wins. The point of this life is not to be good all the time. It's to be as good as you can. No one is perfect. No one does it right all the time. That's not what life is.
Cate Tiernan
#90. What is it about men, anyway? You can't live with 'em and the law frowns on neutering them. It's not exactly a win-win situation.
Susan Andersen
#91. I concluded that I'm a competitor. And, whatever happens, you keep leading. You can't fear anybody. Why? Because at the end of the day, I might not be in this job a couple of years from now. I'm here to win.
Masai Ujiri
#92. I'm not trying to sell pipe dreams to people. I'm not giving them some fake utopia. I'm not telling them it's easy. If it was easy, everyone would do it. But you don't fight the fights you can win, you fight the fights that need fighting. That's the most important part.
Immortal Technique
#93. I don't have Paul's calling - I'm not out there being all things to all men to win them for Christ - but sometimes I can be a signpost. Sometimes I can sow a seed. And post-hole diggers and seed sowers are mighty important in the building of the Kingdom.
Johnny Cash
#94. You get irritated when I say I'm not angry and you get irritated when I say I am angry. I can't win."
"Because you just saying whatever you think will shut me up," he accused me.
"Aye, but it's not working."
"Argh!" was his response, and he charged on down the street.
Moira J. Moore
#95. We know next year was suppose to be our year, but we didn't feel like waiting when we think we can win now.
Paul Konerko
#96. Tomboy. Alright, call me a tomboy. Tomboys get medals. Tomboys win championships. Tomboys can fly. Oh. And tomboys aren't boys.
Julie Foudy
#97. I'm tired of the 'can't win against evil' way. I'm sorry, you cannot. They'll run you over. So that is my one big passion. 'Ten Stupid Things People Do to Let Evil Win' - that will be my next passion book. I am angry.
Laura Schlessinger
#98. My best advice: win little battles. Get in the habit of winning, of shipping, of having customers that can't live without you. Once you've demonstrated you know how to do the art, then go after the windmills.
Seth Godin
#99. A lot of our so-called Latino leaders are gutless. I talk to these cry-baby Latino leaders, and they say they can't win elections until Latinos are a majority.
Juan Vargas
#100. Like you can't have a car that can take the kids to schools on Friday and win the grand prix on Saturday, you can't make a microscope that can do it all.
Eric Betzig
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