Didn't Win Quotes

#1. I won twenty-eight games in thirty-five and I couldn't believe my eyes when the Cards sent me a contract with a cut in salary. Mr Rickey said I deserved a cut because I didn't win thirty games. - Author: Dizzy Dean

#2. I committed myself totally, fully, but I didn't succeed in convincing a majority of French ... I didn't succeed in making the values we share win. - Author: Nicolas Sarkozy

#3. To be completely honest, I didn't want to compete with myself. I wanted to reinvent myself. This seemed like the perfect way to step back in without competing with what I've already done, because I can't win that battle. - Author: Marta Kauffman

#4. I didn't ever imagine, except in the most idle, obviously wish-fulfillment, ego-gratification fantasies, that anything I wrote would ever win awards, let alone so many. - Author: Ann Leckie

#5. I hoped to win a medal and hoped it would be gold. I knew I was good but didn't know I would be the one to score something that had never been done before. - Author: Nadia Comaneci

#6. Perhaps we didn't win anyway. (the Cold War) Perhaps they just lost. Or perhaps, without the bonds of ideological conflict to restrain us any more, our troubles are just beginning. - Author: John Le Carre

#7. And she knew that her fate wasn't set by how or where she was born, but the decisions she made and the battles she fought. It didn't matter if she had eight toes or ten, amber eyes or blue. What mattered was what she set out to do. - Author: Robert Beatty

#8. It really hit home that my parents felt as though they didn't have to worry anymore. They realized if you could win an Oscar, that was a good sign. - Author: Linda Hunt

#9. I can speak volumes about the guy sitting next to me. You look at his stat line tonight, he had a lot of foul trouble and didn't really get going, but when he was in there, he was defending. He was playing physical, and he was doing everything he could to help us win. - Author: Stephen Curry

#10. I think I had a superb campaign team. And I know it's always expected that if you lose, people point to the campaign team and say, 'Gee, they didn't do their job well.' If you win, they're all brilliant. And the team, in my view, did a superb job. - Author: Mitt Romney

#11. Four years ago maybe we thought we were inferior to Brazil, subconsciously we didn't see ourselves beating them. Now we believe in ourselves, we can be on the pitch with any team in the world and think we can win. - Author: Rio Ferdinand

#12. Deep down, I believed that I was supposed to win. And if I didn't, it was because of ME. - Author: Lashinda Demus

#13. He decided not to try to pin her down on that; he had a feeling it was one he wouldn't win. He hadn't known Isabel Adams an hour before reaching the conclusion that she was extremely unlikely to let slip by accident anything she didn't want him to know. - Author: Kay Hooper

#14. Manchester United is still in my heart. Disappointed they didn't win the title but they are still the kings of Premier League. - Author: Cristiano Ronaldo

#15. I didn't want to settle or become complacent after winning a major, I wanted to stay hungry. It's easy to do. It's easy to win a big tournament and kind of get a little lazy, so it's been a good motivator for me to work a little harder. - Author: Webb Simpson

#16. There are some songs where you're like, 'I really like this song,' and it just didn't work out how you thought it would. That's life. You win some, you lose some. You can't dwell on it. I can't be worried about the past. - Author: Ciara

#17. I know she fought
She fought hard
but she didn't win - Author: Lisa Schroeder

#18. When I lost the Wimbledon 2012 final, I didn't know if I'd ever win a slam. - Author: Andy Murray

#19. The first win came very quick, and I didn't know what it meant to win a major championship. I was a teenager, I was very young. I didn't know what I was doing. I just needed some time to get settled in on the tour. - Author: Inbee Park

#20. Fine," I growled. "You win. I'll help you."
"Thank you."
"Seriously? You threatened my family if I didn't agree. I don't really think thank you covers it."
He pressed his lips together and shrugged. "Manners never killed anyone. - Author: K.J. McPike

#21. A third-grader when WWII started, I was also waging my own "war effort." It was deeply magical thinking - I really thought what I did or didn't do could save lives, win battles, bring my dad and uncles home safe. And conversely, that if I screwed up, they were all in greater danger. - Author: Ann Medlock

#22. Although Mar would be quite pleased to be consort, Skjaldwulf didn't want to be wolfjarl.
He wanted Isolfr, and he would take the damned job that went with it, if he could win it, if that was what it took. - Author: Sarah Monette

#23. Being popular doesn't always win spiritual change. Christ didn't pour out the coins of the moneychangers and overturn their tables with any degree of manners when he cleansed the temple. His harshness drew a point - to make people realize how much better they could become. - Author: Shannon L. Alder

#24. Worse day ever!" I whined to Ellie.
"Oh, worse than the time you got pulled over and the cop said 'papers' and you said 'scissors, I win' and he didn't laugh? - Author: Sophie Monroe

#25. When I was living in Boston, I worked in this store that played the college radio station. I had to listen to it all day, and I didn't care for most of it. - Author: Win Butler

#26. I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience. - Author: Kevin Smith

#27. It struck Yuki as almost comic that humans drew lines on the globe, and on both sides of those lines raised up armies. Then they fought and died to take possession of...what? Hills. Yuki knew he had to fight, and had to win, but that didn't make war anything to be proud of. - Author: Dean Hughes

#28. When I saw all those other drivers, I realized that they wanted to win that money just as much as I did. But I didn't have to worry. A tire came off my car and I was lucky I got it off the track. - Author: Buck Baker

#29. She won't win," Eric said. He sounded confident, passionate
everything I might have hoped would be reassuring.
"You're sure?" I asked.
"Yes, my lover. I'm sure."
"But you're not here," I observed,
and I hung up very gently.
He didn't call back. - Author: Charlaine Harris

#30. The last two times I went to spring training, I had to win a job, and if I didn't get off to a blazing start, I'm on the bench. Now, I've proven myself, so it's not essential that I get off to a real good start. - Author: Eric Davis

#31. That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team. - Author: Warren Moon

#32. I've made peace with myself.
Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win.
Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting. - Author: Joe Abercrombie

#33. The best game ever played was in Monday 3/21/2016, 2 games were played for 40 minutes class sport and in both I win and I and my friend we were going on the 3 game, but unfortunately we didn't finished it. But from here it can be see that I'm the winner! - Author: Deyth Banger

#34. Side note, I was Prom Prince. My friend and I campaigned to be Prom King and Queen, and we got the rest of the non-popular people in the school to vote for us. We didn't win, but we got Prince and Princess. - Author: Tom Lenk

#35. I didn't just magically end up becoming the person that I am today. I also dealt with different kinds of pain and hardships, and I chose to fight and win over these battles instead of letting it defeat me and become just a mere victim. - Author: Kcat Yarza

#36. I didn't get into music to win awards. I love to play and the older I get the more I love it. And I love new things. - Author: Sam Bush

#37. Corr stood here," Sean says wonderingly. "I would've died. He didn't have to stay." For a moment, I see that it doesn't matter that he didn't win. The fact of Corr's loyalty is a bigger thing than the ownership of him. - Author: Maggie Stiefvater

#38. When I got into rap I didn't exactly win any popularity contests. I called myself Dee Dee King, after B.B. King, to the total dismay of my fellow Ramones. - Author: Dee Dee Ramone

#39. There's no room for failure performing [stand-up] for a black audience. If you don't get them right away it's tough winning them back even if you're doing top-notch material. If you didn't win them right when you walked out there, it's tough. - Author: Hannibal Buress

#40. I was struggling against corruption and the only thing ... my only weapon was to put the truth in the medias and of course it made me win lots of enemies that didn't want me to just denounce what was happening. - Author: Ingrid Betancourt

#41. Mitt Romney had a horse competing in the Olympics. He didn't win. But next year, he'll be competing in 'Dancing with the Stars.' - Author: David Letterman

#42. I felt the little beads of sweat pooling on my temple. Sit here and look nice ... I could do that. But answer questions? I knew I wasn't going to win this little game; that wasn't the issue. I just really, really didn't want to look like a moron in front of the entire country. - Author: Kiera Cass

#43. And whatever anyone thinks or says, England didn't win this war. And Germany wouldn't have won it, either."
"What do you mean?"
"War wins." He says. "And it keeps winning, over and over again. - Author: Anna Hope

#44. I try to win the love and approval of strangers, since it didn't work with my family. - Author: Judy Gold

#45. You're different, I'll give you that. They didn't break you, but don't
think you can fight me. You won't win. - Author: Pepper Winters

#46. Electing Barack Obama president was a glorious Jackie Robinson moment for the United States of America. Obama didn't just win; he became the first Democrat since Jimmy Carter to win a popular-vote majority. - Author: Timothy Noah

#47. I was disappointed if I didn't have a chance to win a game, and if I had the chance and didn't do it ... - Author: Jerry West

#48. It doesn't matter that I didn't win a trophy because I did it my way and I lived the dream. - Author: Alan Shearer

#49. Despite what everyone thinks, hatred is what makes the world goes round not love. Just look at Hitler, he changed the world with his hatred so did Abraham Lincoln. He didn't free the slaves out of love, he simply hated the Confederates so he did something to piss them off and win the war. - Author: Hermione Daguin

#50. I was an athlete. And I proved I didn't win just because I was pretty. I was good, too. - Author: Katarina Witt

#51. I feel like at the Olympics I gave the best performance of my life and I wasn't rewarded for that as an athlete. Yes, my fans and my mom were happy about it, but I didn't win that gold medal. - Author: Johnny Weir

#52. 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. - Author: Teri Hatcher

#53. 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. - Author: Kyrsten Sinema

#54. Even when you win you lose ... if you didn't learn something. - Author: Robert Kiyosaki

#55. If I had won ... all those other championships, my life might be totally different, but I didn't win. It's not going to affect my life. - Author: Greg Norman

#56. Didn't I warn you-Huh-Didn't I tell you one of em was going to win!?? So now, what do we do? - Author: Jack Norris

#57. I don't believe in luck. Like I didn't win a lot of races for awhile, and it's because I didn't put myself in position to win enough of them. - Author: Michael Waltrip

#58. 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. - Author: Lolo Jones

#59. 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. - Author: M.A. George

#60. You are anxious before every game because you had to win it. If you didn't you went down the ladder. I felt proud of the way we beat some teams in tough games. - Author: Sourav Ganguly

#61. I strongly believe what we're doing is the right thing. If I didn't believe it
I'm going to repeat what I said before
I'd pull the troops out, nor if I believed we could win, I would pull the troops out. - Author: George W. Bush

#62. I was a full-blown street cat. I was trying to hustle my way. I thought I was going to hustle my way to a mansion or something. I was doing pretty good, but I didn't realize that there was no way to win that game. - Author: Ice-T

#63. As a kid I watched the Academy Awards on television and always wanted one - or several - like one of my favorite directions, John Ford. He won six. On the other hand, Orson Welles, who's on the top of my list, didn't win any. Alfred Hitchcock didn't win any. Howard Hawks didn't win any. - Author: Martin Scorsese

#64. The great thing about the British SAS was that they viewed war the same way the American Special Operations community did. You didn't win by thinking inside the box and following someone else's rules. You turned the box upside down and made your own rules, no matter what the enemy threw at you. - Author: Brad Thor

#65. That was a f****g dumb question. If I didn't think I was gonna win, why the hell would I be fighting?! - Author: Rocky Marciano

#66. Roy received my comments with a forced
smile. "Hardy, didn't I warn you not to date a woman who reads?"
Hardy seemed amused by my outspokenness. "Keeps the arguing to a minimum," he replied. "No point in trying when I know she's going to win. - Author: Lisa Kleypas

#67. I am a winner. I just didn't win today. - Author: Greg Norman

#68. Hell, if I didn't drink drink or smoke, I'd win twenty games every year. It's easy when you don't drink or smoke or horse around. - Author: Whitey Ford

#69. I was strong because cancer is resolute, and I didn't want the beast to win. - Author: D. Nichole King

#70. Even if I knew that Separation would probably win, when they announced the film, I was thinking to myself "Oh! I want this! I want this!" And so, when we didn't win, I got depressed for about 20 minutes, and then I snapped out of it and enjoyed the rest of the evening. - Author: Philippe Falardeau

#71. Mr. Meant-to has a friend, his name is Didn't-Do. Have you met them? They live together in a house called Never-Win. And I am told that it is haunted by the Ghost of Might-have-Been. - Author: Marva Collins

#72. No, he didn't win, Great-Uncle Merry said, and even in the clear afternoon sunshine he seemed with every word to become more remote, as ancient as the rock behind him and the old world of which he spoke. - Author: Susan Cooper

#73. I can say I didn't win, but I can't say that I didn't try. - Author: Maribel C. Pagan

#74. I got into the movies by accident. When I got an offer, I thought, 'Let's try this, too.' Everything in my life has happened by trial and error. I didn't even think I would win the Miss India title, so where's the question of thinking I'd come this far. - Author: Priyanka Chopra

#75. You got beat up. Bones and bruises heal. Those girls didn't win because they didn't do what they wanted. They wanted to break you.
I was already broken.
You're not broken at all. - Author: Tijan

#76. I have only been here since 1996 but between 1966 and 1996 England had thirty years without foreign players and didn't win any more competitions in that time. - Author: Arsene Wenger

#77. John Henry Holliday didn't have a mother to love him when he was grown, so I have taken him for my own. My fondest hope for Doc is that it will win for him the compassion and respect I think he deserves. - Author: Mary Doria Russell

#78. I knew that if I kept the pressure on and didn't do anything stupid I would probably win. - Author: Jack Nicklaus

#79. I'm so, so full of joy that America elected Obama. He didn't win because he was black - people voted for him because he had a plan and because he talked sense and because you believed him. - Author: Estelle Fanta Swaray

#80. We didn't win the Cold War, we were just a big bank that bankrupted a smaller bank because we had an arms race that wiped the Russians out. - Author: Norman Mailer

#81. Today was the day to win again, Javlei held his axe in hand he had killed many people with it he didn't care that he had blood on his hands. He had won the STEDFARST races every year so far by being ruthless butchering other racers as he went. - Author: Charon Lloyd-Roberts

#82. The lottery question might get you thinking about what you would do if talent and money didn't matter. But they do. The question twentysomethings need to ask themselves is what they would do with their lives if they didn't win the lottery. - Author: Meg Jay

#83. Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win. - Author: William Shatner

#84. I think at the end of the day, even though I didn't win a Super Bowl ring, I felt like I backed them up for drafting me. I backed up the San Diego Chargers for picking me with the fifth pick. - Author: LaDainian Tomlinson

#85. I wanted to win the gold medal and then go home and further my education in college. I had no intentions whatsoever to become a professional fighter because I had heard horror stories about former boxers who made money but, in the end, ended up with nothing. I didn't want to be one of those guys. - Author: Sugar Ray Leonard

#86. I lost faith in the Oscars the first year I was a movie critic - the year that Bonnie and Clyde didn't win. - Author: Roger Ebert

#87. I had a coconut on the way, which was another first for me. A drink and food all in one. It didn't look like the normal coconuts you win at fairgrounds. There was no hair on it. I don't know if that's how they grow here or if it's that Brazilians hate hair on anything and they've waxed them. - Author: Karl Pilkington

#88. Even if they didn't win the battle, even if she couldn't save these kids, Angel knew, as she'd always known, that Max was their only chance at saving the world. - Author: James Patterson

#89. Okay, okay, you win. One-just one- date. But that's all." She didn't look at Josh, just stalked off toward the nearest exit. "Do you get all your dates by blackmail?"
"Nope," he said cheerily as he easily kept pace with her. "Only the ones that matter - Author: Dani Harper

#90. You didn't win the game of life by losing the least. That would be one of those-what were they called again?-Pyrrhic victories. Real winning was having the most to lose, even if it meant you might lose it all. Even though it meant you would lose it all, sooner or later. - Author: Tommy Wallach

#91. I didn't worry about leaving Jay with Pagan this time. I was sure
he'd get the message when he read his ticket.
After all when a guy reads,
She's mine. That's your one and only warning.
Dank Walker
He knows if he isn't ready for a fight he can't win then he'd better back the fuck off. - Author: Abbi Glines

#92. I didn't respond, because naked people never win arguments. - Author: Kevin Hearne

#93. I've never felt that I was less of an athlete or not accomplished athletically because I didn't win an Olympic medal. It's definitely something I would have liked to have added to my resume, but at the same time I think I can look back at my athletic career and feel that I was one of the best. - Author: Mary Decker

#94. Since we didn't use guns, we wanted to make sure we could earn the ability to win the audience over by making it believable. A lot of what you do when you work out in that mode is use your mental energy. - Author: Lucy Liu

#95. All my life I've been that way - ever since I was a kid. It doesn't matter whether we played video games or even before that when we had board games when you played with your sister and mom and dad - I didn't like losing then and didn't want to do anything but win when we played. - Author: Tony Stewart

#96. Losing one grounds you a bit. I learned a lot after losing the title in 2009, learned that I was probably too intense that year, and when I didn't win, I just felt horrible. - Author: Joel Parkinson

#97. It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn't fight with honor ... I fought to win. - Author: Orson Scott Card

#98. I had to believe I was immune to the emotional and mental blows of my life thus far. I had to believe that I was above it. If I didn't, how could I win? - Author: Rosie Perez

#99. We know next year was suppose to be our year, but we didn't feel like waiting when we think we can win now. - Author: Paul Konerko

#100. Did we win?" Salan asked as Karol stood. "Hell yes, we did," Karol said, glad that he didn't have to lie to say it. "You just stay there and wait your turn. And don't get impatient. We don't rush the cunning men for pinpricks and scrapes." "Be all right with me if they rushed a little, sir. - Author: Daniel Abraham