Top 100 Can't Win Quotes
#1. 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
#2. We have to make some radical move to get the attention of everyone. Cheaters can't win and steroids has put us in the position that it's OK to cheat.
Lou Brock
#3. You can't win a marathon without putting some bandaids on your nipples!
Kevin Spacey
#5. Never take a path that has no heart in it. You can't lose if your heart is in your work, but you can't win if your heart is not in it.
Carlos Castaneda
#8. Just like a boxer can't win without a few punches on his face, a student can't be fully trained without ups and downs.
Pawan Mishra
#9. Grassroots organizing tends to be most available to big campaigns, but it's actually most useful to small ones. You can't win a presidential campaign without going on TV, but you can win a local election simply by organizing your community. NationBuilder levels the playing field.
Joe Green
#10. I can't win all my battles, but those that I do win, I will celebrate and enjoy the victory.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#11. I have two basic rules about winning in trading as well as in life: 1. If you don't bet, you can't win. 2. If you lose all your chips, you can't bet.
Larry Hite
#12. 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
#13. All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive ... because I'm a woman ... even because I'm a lesbian.
Tammy Baldwin
#14. Financial peace isn't the acquisition of stuff. It's learning to live on less than you make, so you can give money back and have money to invest. You can't win until you do this.
Dave Ramsey
#15. I train for two reasons. Number one, I love working out, and number two, I want to win. You can't win if you don't train to the best of your ability.
Branch Warren
#16. You can't win the Kentucky Derby unless you're on a thoroughbred.
Joe Torre
#17. On one thing professionals and amateurs agree: mothers can't win.
Margaret Drabble
#18. Italians can't win the game against you, but you can lose the game against the Italians.
Johan Cruijff
#21. Stop it!" he yelled, gripping my arms. "Don't you get it? You can't win!"
"Then kill me!
Richelle Mead
#22. You can't outwit fate by trying to stand on the sidelines and place little side bets about the outcome of life. Either you wade in and risk everything to play the game, or you don't play at all. And if you don't play, you can't win.
Judith McNaught
#23. Zeroth law: You must play the game
First law: You can't win
Second law: You can't break even
Third law: You can't quit the game.
C.P. Snow
#24. You can't win with some people. If you're not in government, you're criticised for being not serious. If you are in government, you're criticised for wanting power. That's the Labour party's line of attack, and it's a bit ridiculous.
Vince Cable
#25. We can't win at somebody else's expense. We can only fully be satisfied when the other person's needs are fulfilled as well as our own.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#26. At its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can't win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game just becomes a random symbol for petty tribal behavior.
John Carmack
#27. You can't win, Darth. Strike me down, and I will become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.
George Lucas
#28. You can't win the hearts and minds of the masses unless you inspire them - you must lift their spirits and enliven their hearts.
Jason Silva
#29. When we classify an issue as a 'shield issue' it is usually because we feel that someone else occupies the high ground on that issue. We feel we can't win on that issue and so we adopt a defensive posture.
Preston Manning
#34. First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.
Donald Rumsfeld
#35. You can't win by being more average than average.
Seth Godin
#36. I fully understand those who say you can't win this thing militarily. That's exactly what the United States military says, that you can't win this military.
George W. Bush
#37. There's a lathered sorrel stallion running through the Joshua trees and a young man in the saddle with his coat tails in the breeze. He's got a six gun on his right hip and a rifle at his knees and he's dealing in a game that he can't win.
Charlie Daniels
#38. I realized early that unless you're willing to kill the innocent, you can't win.
Pat Conroy
#39. We can't win the world with weapons or violence.
We can win the world with love and practice of nonviolence.
Debasish Mridha
#40. I'm behind you." I spun to see Derek. "I can't win," he said. "You're as skittish as a kitten.
Kelley Armstrong
#43. You can't win until you're not afraid to lose.
Jon Bon Jovi
#44. In '82 Brazil showed that you can't win the World Cup without a solid defense.
Alan Hansen
#45. Well you can't win the lottery if you don't have a ticket
Andy Gray
#46. While I personally believe strongly in the philosophy and ideology of the Free Software movement, you can't win people over just on philosophy; you have to have a better product, too.
Matt Mullenweg
#47. The older you get, the more you start to realize that you can't win an argument in a relationship. You can't win a fight with your woman. Because if you lose, you lose. And if you win, you lose.
Trevor Noah
#48. They say I can't lose. I say you can't win!
Mike Tyson
#49. You can't win an argument. You can't because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it.
Dale Carnegie
#50. Own it. Don't apologize for who you are. Own it. You can't win if you don't show up, right?
Penelope Douglas
#52. The war against illegal file-sharing is like the church's age-old war against masturbation. It's a war you just can't win.
Lawrence Lessig
#53. You can't win if you aren't willing to lose it all.
J.J. McAvoy
#54. Ball so hard that you can't win it. So much money bank can't fit it.
Wiz Khalifa
#55. I will be better in Monte Carlo than I was in Phoenix. If I can't win maybe I will lead 50 laps.
Jean Alesi
#56. Black Power is a nihilistic philosophy born out of the conviction that the Negro can't win ... the view that American society is so hopelessly corrupt and enmeshed in evil that there is no possibility of salvation from within.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#57. What if we both can't win?" "I've already told you what happens then." "What?" "I give you the plank, Karissa." It takes a moment for her to understand. The Plank of Carneades.
J.M. Darhower
#58. When people come at me they can't win, they think they can, but they can't. I'll just walk away.
Danny Trejo
#59. If you can't win your race, make sure the guy ahead of you breaks the record.
Steve Prefontaine
#60. I think that if you don't think we're in a war that you can't win the war.
George W. Bush
#61. Don't start a war you can't win, my friend. In the battle of teases, I would whip your slutty ass, you sex fiend.
R.K. Lilley
#62. That's what music is to me. Like, stuff that I really like to play loud. And I've got my quiet CDs, too, that I listen to around the house, but if you can't go there, then ... Everyone gets so upset with me, I can't win.
Liz Phair
#63. Fear life but don't die, your alone, everybody's alone, oh Cody Pomeray you can't win you can't lose all is ephemeral all is hurt
Jack Kerouac
#64. Comparison, a great teacher once told me, is the cardinal sin of modern life. It traps us in a game that we can't win. Once we define ourselves in terms of others, we lose the freedom to shape our own lives.
James C. Collins
#65. You can't win unless you have good people with great attitude. They are the ones who won the games. I didn't win any games. You never saw a coach make a tackle anywhere. My philosophy was to get the best players and then try to do something new with them.
Hank Stram
#67. If you can't win, don't join them; learn how to lose.
Walt Kelly
#68. American economy is tricky. If you stay in the game you're in a good position for the upswing. If you're not in the game you can't win.
Farrah Gray
#69. Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win.
Robert A. Heinlein
#70. You can't win at everything in life, Tate," I said softly, "He should learn that." "You're right, Ace, you can't. But you can learn from losin' how not to lose again. Or at least not make the same mistakes.
Kristen Ashley
#71. If you can't win, make the one ahead of you break the record.
John McKeithen
#72. If the leadership can't win a debate, then we should show true leadership and implement the democratic will of our party.
Jeremy Corbyn
#73. Come off it, Mr. Dent," he said, "you can't win, you know. You can't lie in front of the bulldozer indefinitely." He tried to make his eyes blaze fiercely but
Douglas Adams
#74. You can't win integrity and honor from games. You can only earn them from living a life dedicated to those ideals.
P.C. Cast
#75. There are some battles you can't win, no matter how much you fight.
Jessamine Verzosa
#76. You can't win 'til you're not afraid to lose
Jon Bon Jovi
#77. You've got to have great athletes to win, I don't care who the coach is. You can't win without good athletes but you can lose with them. This is where coaching makes the difference.
Lou Holtz
#79. Never be passive. Victories happen when you take charge of a game. You can't win by playing not to lose.
Karen Kingsbury
#80. If you can't win the game, if you can't solve the puzzle, then you're just a loser.- Near
Tsugumi Ohba
#81. You should know whatever game you're playing, you can't win. Not against all of us. If you leave now, you won't be hurt. If you stay, we'll break you so bad that you'll be crawling away."
- Reed Royal
Erin Watt
#82. We have a choice: to spend a lot of time fighting for what we know is right, or to just accept what we know is wrong. We must stand up for our rights and for the rights of others, even if most people say we can't win.
Susan Polis Schutz
#83. My closest friends from Israel make fun of me for becoming an American, and my American friends make fun of how Israeli I am ... I can't win.
Alona Tal
#85. I hate this idea that I've somehow become detached. It's like I can't win. I'd been hearing all these years that I was too hands-on: that I was the guy writing out the lineup card. Now, I'm not present enough. How is it possible to be a detached micromanager?
Billy Beane
#86. Satan's gotta get along without me. Since I've broke the chain of sin I know for sure that he can't win.
Buck Owens
#87. Even if you kill her, she'll still be alive-here." He tapped his chest. "In me. I keep her here. She's part of me. So until you kill me, you can't really kill her. And you can't win. It's that simple.
L.J.Smith
#88. Your opponents would love you to believe that it's hopeless, that you have no power, that there's no reason to act, that you can't win. Hope is a gift you don't have to surrender, a power you don't have to throw away.
Rebecca Solnit
#89. When you can't win the fight, you get bigger guns."
- Episode 14, "Better Space Than Never
Ashley Poston
#91. Have you ever sabotaged yourself? Ever come close to victory only to slide back into the jaws of defeat? When you are fighting yourself, you can't win.
Robert G. Allen
#92. 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
#93. The United States is more reliant on the technical systems. We're more reliant on the critical infrastructure of the internet than any other nation out there. And when there's such a low barrier to entering the domain of cyber-attacks we're starting a fight that we can't win.
Edward Snowden
#94. When you win, you want more of it. You can't win enough.
Randy Johnson
#96. 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
#97. Gortrek gave him a look. 'Never get into a war of words with a poet, Ironbreaker. You can't win.
Nathan Long
#98. 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
#99. We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.
Douglas Adams
#100. I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.
Dr. Seuss
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