
Top 100 If You Can't Win Quotes
#3. Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
Patricia Ireland
#4. In other words, if you can't win the game, change the rules.
Eric Schmidt
#5. If you can't win the game, if you can't solve the puzzle, then you're just a loser.- Near
Tsugumi Ohba
#6. If you can't win, make the one ahead of you break the record.
John McKeithen
#7. If you can't win, don't join them; learn how to lose.
Walt Kelly
#8. If you can't win your race, make sure the guy ahead of you breaks the record.
Steve Prefontaine
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. I can't say, 'It doesn't matter if you win or lose.' It's not true. You go in to win.
Katarina Witt
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. Self-esteem can't win you a race if you're not in shape.
Louis Zamperini
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. The way I figure it, if you can't tell I'm high by looking at me, I win.
Marc Maron
#27. 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.
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. If you're running to be president of the United States, you can't just tell people you're going to make America great again. I think you need to begin to explain exactly how you're going to do it policy-wise. We're not going to win a general election with a candidate that refuses to detail policy.
Marco Rubio
#31. Sometimes you can be one of the best, but you don't accept that if you don't get the ring or win the Super Bowl. There's a lot of good teams between the Super Bowl winner and other teams. Once the Super Bowl is over, we lump everyone into the other 31, and that's not fair.
John Madden
#32. You can neither win nor lose if you don't run the race
David Bowie
#33. If you think you are beaten you are, if you think you dare not, you don't. If you like to win, but you think you can't, it is almost certain you won't.
Napoleon Hill
#34. I have so many questions about love. How do you win at it? Especially if you're in a relationship with an impossible person? What if you believe in someone who's completely untrustworthy, who at their core can't even believe in themselves?
Paul Haggis
#35. As long as you fight, you cannot lose ... if you leave everything out there, it doesn't matter if you win or lose. To me you can never lose.
Bas Rutten
#36. Don't worry about making friends; don't worry about making enemies. Worry about winning, because if you win, your enemies can't hurt you, and if you lose, your friends can't stand you.
Bear Bryant
#37. If you're going to try to win an election, you can't be 80 percent. You can't say, I'm for what my Democratic opponent is, for but not quite so much of it.
Pete Du Pont
#38. You knew that if you survived that accident, there's no way I could ever leave you again. Not unless I want your blood on my hands. You're lucky your gamble paid off. Now you can do or say whatever you want, can't you. You've got me right where you've always wanted me.
You win.
Heather Demetrios
#39. Getting life insurance is like making a bet you can't win. If you live, you don't get the money. If you die, you don't get to enjoy the money.
Oliver Gaspirtz
#40. I strongly believe that you can't win in the marketplace unless you win first in the workplace. If you don't have a winning culture inside, it's hard to compete in the very tough world outside.
Douglas Conant
#41. When you win, you don't get carried away. But if you go step by step, with confidence, you can go far.
Diego Maradona
#42. If you go (with a break), you can either win or not win. If you don't go for it, you definitely won't win.
Jens Voigt
#43. You may be able to conquer the whole world and gain everything in action,
But you'll live in torment if you can't find peace of mind and satisfaction.
Mouloud Benzadi
#44. You can't win a game if you don't score any points.
John Madden
#45. You can't win if you're chasing the wrong problem.
Paul Wolfowitz
#46. You can't win every battle! You must have the word Defeat in your dictionary; if not, defeat will triumph even more strongly!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#47. If you don't believe you can win, there is no point in getting out of bed at the beginning of the day.
H. L. Hunt
#48. Winning is not everything - but making the effort to win was ... If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
Vince Lombardi
#49. There's always motivation coming into Majors. If you can't get up and get excited to win one of these, then you probably shouldn't be playing golf.
Jason Dufner
#50. You can't measure success if you have never failed. My father has taught me that if you really do want to reach your goals, you can't spend any time worrying about whether you're going to win or lose. Focus only on getting better.
Steffi Graf
#51. If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
Shelley Long
#52. People always say you can't win if you don't play
Lev Yilmaz
#53. In the American political system, you're only allowed to have real ideas if it's absolutely guaranteed that you can't win an election
P. J. O'Rourke
#54. We must plant the seed of desire, water it with sincere faith. If you think you are beaten you are. If you dare not, you don't. If you want to win, but think you can't, it is almost sure you won't." 14
Pamela Grundy
#55. If Hillary can't win the nomination - and it's clearly very, very hard for her - she's basically a stalking horse for McCain. She's preparing the demographic ground for McCain, by getting white working-class Democrats used to (if you will) not voting for Obama.
Rich Lowry
#56. But you still fight. You still hope. Because there's a chance you might win. And even if you don't - you fight for the people you love, especially when they can't fight for themselves - Kennedy
Kami Garcia
#57. Cyclists live with pain. If you can't handle it you will win nothing
Eddy Merckx
#58. Any guy hates Valentine's Day. Even if you're in love, you can't win on Valentine's Day. If you're married, you can't win on Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day is like the thing you want to avoid at all costs.
Vince Vaughn
#59. It's awfully important to win with humility. It's also important to lose. I hate to lose worse than anyone, but if you never lose you won't know how to act. If you lose with humility, then you can come back.
Bear Bryant
#60. You've got to get people to believe that change is possible ... You have to show that you can fight things successfully even if you don't win.
Winona LaDuke
#62. Don't start a fight if you can't duke it out. Either win or concede but whatever you do, don't have others fight for you.
Donna Lynn Hope
#63. Don't give in, Alex, don't let them win. You beat them once and you can do it again. Don't let this place break you. Keep your mind busy, keep yourself occupied, find things to do. If you're doing things, then you still exist, right?
Alexander Gordon Smith
#64. If you can't support us when we lose or draw, don't support us when we win
Bill Shankly
#65. You can't win together if you don't work together.
Nick Saban
#66. You can be the best person in the league but if you don't win championships, something's missing.
Terrell Davis
#67. There's no reason to play in the NBA if you don't believe you can win it all.
LeBron James
#68. If there's one thing I believe more than I believe anything else, it's that you can't fake the core. The truth that lives there will eventually win out. It's a god we must obey, a force that brings us all inevitably to our knees.
Cheryl Strayed
#69. If Hillary Clinton wants to win the White House, she's gonna have to convince Americans they can trust her and if you seen the polls, they don't. There's one American who has faith in her, her husband Bill.
Eric Bolling
#70. Y'know what? This is what I go by: It doesn't matter how good-looking a guy is, it just depends on his personality. If a guy can make you laugh and make fun of you, then that's what would win me over. So, yeah.
Rachel Bilson
#71. How can a guy win a game if you don't give him any runs?
Bo Belinsky
#72. 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
#73. I'm sorry Eren ... I can't ... Give up. If I die now ... I won't even be able to remember you. So no matter what ... I'm going to win! Whatever I have to do, I'm going to live!!
Hajime Isayama
#74. 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
#75. This pool is a triumph of imagination. That's how you win at life, Gin. You have to imagine your way through. Never say something can't be done. There's always a solution, even if it's weird.
Maureen Johnson
#76. If you've got the time, we can play a game. It's easy. We just see if I'm the same shape as the space you have inside you. If everything fits, we both win. If it doesn't, don't force it. That's how you get splinters in your heart.
Pleasefindthis
#77. If the state polls are right, then Mr. Obama will win the Electoral College. If you can't acknowledge that after a day when Mr. Obama leads 19 out of 20 swing-state polls, then you should abandon the pretense that your goal is to inform rather than entertain the public.
Nate Silver
#78. Don't be afraid to let go. You have people rooting for you who you can't even see. And if you come up short the first time, you've only lost the battle. You can still win the war, so go for it.
- Jeffery
Rob Buyea
#79. Human survival is something that you can't see in another person; you can see if someone has that will to survive or that will to win; you can't see that, you can only watch that evolve over time.
Dhani Jones
#80. You can never know the odds. If you don't play, you'll never win
Richard Bedford
#81. I've always played hard. If that's rough and tough, I can't help it. I don't believe there's any such thing as a good loser. I wouldn't sit down and play a game of cards with you right now withing wanting to win. If I hadn't felt that way I wouldn't have got very far in baseball.
Rogers Hornsby
#82. You can't expect to win the war if you send archers into battle armed with only a bow and an empty quiver.
Diane Condon-Boutier
#83. If they can snuff out that part of you that's good, the part of you that won't kill, then they win, don't you see? If they can do it to you, they can do it to anyone. And they win. They WIN!
Patrick Ness
#84. Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win.
Robert A. Heinlein
#85. 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
#86. Performing magic has a lot to do with the arrangement of apparent coincidences and providing pathways along which desires can travel, or, to put it in more basic terms, there's little point in sigilizing for a lottery win if you don't also buy a lottery ticket.
Grant Morrison
#87. You can't really win as a Booker judge. If you choose the obvious names, the unit-shifters, you're accused of being timid and unimaginative; if you choose the unfamous, you're labelled willful and perverse.
Tibor Fischer
#88. You don't have to be the kind of beautiful that everyone can agree on. If the right person finds you beautiful, you win. You win forever.
Rainbow Rowell
#89. 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
#90. I think that if you don't think we're in a war that you can't win the war.
George W. Bush
#91. If you look at the record books, Dale Earnhardt's done everything, except win the Daytona 500. Now they can't have that riding over him. Now they're just going to say, 'Dale Earnhardt, 1998 Daytona 500 winner,' and his shoulders are going to get lighter every time.
Ernie Irvan
#92. If you can't enjoy the game unless you are pretty sure your team is going to win, baseball is not the game for you. Remember, the best team in baseball in any year is going to be beaten about 60 times.
Daniel Okrent
#93. 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
#94. You can't win if you aren't willing to lose it all.
J.J. McAvoy
#95. Own it. Don't apologize for who you are. Own it. You can't win if you don't show up, right?
Penelope Douglas
#96. 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
#97. If you want to win, but think you can't, it's almost certain that you won't.
Moe Norman
#98. 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
#99. Well you can't win the lottery if you don't have a ticket
Andy Gray
#100. The Hell of Regret He who wins the race cannot run with the pack. And once you get out you can't come back, because caged lions don't mate with free ones! If ever you are going to win, you
must forsake the social construct of the cage and all the cage dwellers.
T.D. Jakes
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