Top 100 Lose A Game Quotes
#1. You can lose a game but, I see guys every week including myself, you lose a game, it's a tough loss, you're down, two weeks later you forgot about it. You know it's amazing how down you were, but all of the sudden you're like it never happened.
Brett Favre
#2. I once heard that Paul Seymour said as much as winning an NBA Championship, he'd like to see the Celtics lose a game after Auerbach brought out the cigar so he could go up to Arnold and stuff the cigar in his face.
Bob Cousy
#4. Sometimes, you lose (a game) and sometimes the other team wins.
Otto Rehhagel
#5. If we lose a game, I change up what I did that day, like if I eat something that day I will not eat the same thing again the next game day.
Kliff Kingsbury
#6. They can't have Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling lose a game.
Keith Hernandez
#7. When you lose a game or don't play well you can't wait for the next one, because it soon disappears, the disappointment.
Ryan Giggs
#8. I don't know if every player in the Premier League feels hurt when they lose a game. The right sort is very important. I was naive in thinking that everyone was like me.
Tony Fernandes
#9. Players with fight never lose a game, they just run out of time
John Wooden
#10. Usually when we lose a game is because we turn the ball over or not play well enough and usually it is the turnover thing. We have to take care of the ball. It is starts with me and not turning it over.
Ben Roethlisberger
#11. When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
Tom Landry
#12. If you don't win, it's not a great tragedy - the worst that happens is that you lose a game.
Bobby Fischer
#13. Field hockey is my strongest sport, and if I lose a game, I take a long, hot bath and moan about it.
Emma Watson
#14. If I had the Rangers payroll, I'd never lose a game
Glen Sather
#15. One reason I won't compromise is because I believe honesty helps you win over the long haul. You can win a game tomorrow and lose a team. You can lose a game tomorrow and win a football team.
Lou Holtz
#16. Life is like a basketball game, you can shoot but miss. sometimes you even lose a game. There is always a next tournament, but never a time to give up.
David Dunham
#17. Fans who lack the faith can make a team lose a game it is already winning.
Paulo Coelho
#18. There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4)
William Shakespeare
#19. My job is to play well offensively and help my team score points. So I feel very responsible every time we lose a game.
Peyton Manning
#20. You never lose a game if the opponent doesn't score.
Darrell Royal
#21. This is the first time since I've been coaching that I gave them off on Christmas Day. Sometimes when you lose a game you want to get right back at it. But in reality I thank God we had an opportunity for our guys to be home with their families on Christmas.
Louis Orr
#22. We played well in Kenya. We didn't lose a game and we bowled Pakistan out for 100 twice. We don't need to change much from that for this tournament.
Shane Warne
#23. If you lose a game, everyone asks why this player didn't play. If we win, nobody asks.
Jurgen Klopp
#24. A faithless fan can make a team lose a game they have won.
Paulo Coelho
#25. Life is a game board. Time is your opponent. If you procrastinate, you will lose the game. You must make a move to be victorious.
Napoleon Hill
#26. The king just sits there, moving one square at a time. The queen can move so freely. I suppose I'd rather lose the game than forfeit her freedom.
Deborah Harkness
#27. Sometimes a Pawn is enough to change the whole game and those who ignore the importance of it, are liable to lose their Queen.
Sandeep Sharma
#28. We approach markets backwards. The first thing we ask is not what can we make, but how much can we lose. We play a defensive game.
Larry Hite
#29. In basketball, you can be the greatest individual player in the world and still lose every game, because a team will always beat an individual.
Bill Walton
#30. Investing is a negative game emotionally. If you're playing for the emotional satisfaction, you're bound to lose, because what feels good is often the wrong thing to do. When all the criteria are in balance, do the thing you least want to do.
William Eckhardt
#31. I hate to lose. When I was a kid, I used to cry every time I lost a game, up until, like, the 8th grade. I used to go ballistic.
Chris Bosh
#32. I know it's a lot harder for women who don't have enough help, but the truth is, no matter how much money you have, if you want to stay involved with your children and don't want to lose being a primary parent to them, you're still in the game.
Patricia Richardson
#33. Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.
Samuel Butler
#34. A game is where you win and lose, and both are part of it. When there is more chance of losing, it is more charming. The game has value when it is tough. So some little problems that come in life are part of the whole game.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#35. To lose one's objective attitude to a position, nearly always means ruining your game.
David Bronstein
#36. There will be a game where somebody scores more than Brazil and that might be the game that they lose.
Bobby Robson
#37. You can only win the game when you understand that it is a game. Let a man play chess, and tell him that every pawn is his friend. Let him think both bishops holy. Let him remember happy days in the shadows of his castles. Let him love his queen. Watch him lose them all.
Mark Lawrence
#38. Sometimes you have to lose a piece to win a game.
Rick Riordan
#39. You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player.
Jose Raul Capablanca
#40. I made a mistake before, but it won't happen again. I know you'd leave me forever if I did and I can't ... " he paused, "I won't lose you again.
J. Sterling
#41. No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.
Reid Hoffman
#42. People lose it when I say this, but I'm a novelist who doesn't read novels. There are lots of good reasons for not reading novels! I'm also a game writer who doesn't play games - I keep everything very separate. The only crossover with me is comics. I write them, and I read them passionately.
Karen Traviss
#43. This is a team game and one man doesn't win and one man doesn't lose. In the end, the best team usually wins.
Wilt Chamberlain
#44. It is no shame to lose to me, mortal. Even among mythical creatures there are very few who can give a unicorn a good game.
Roger Zelazny
#45. I'm at the top of my game so, when I win or lose, I don't freak out ... I don't think we can call it a rivalry yet. There's just to many great players around.
Roger Federer
#46. She sent Death a thought, one she hoped would be her final gift. The Game means something only because we lose. That is your gift to humans. So thank you.
Martha Brockenbrough
#47. When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.
Michael Jordan
#48. Everybody was waiting for Chelsea not to win every game and one day when we lose there will be a holiday in the country. But we are ready for that.
Jose Mourinho
#49. It's a non-stop invention, this game of life, and as soon as you think you've got it, you lose it.
Tim Finn
#50. There are children who will leave a game to go and be bored in a corner of the garret. How often have I wished for the attic of my boredom when the complications of life made me lose the very germ of freedom!
Gaston Bachelard
#51. You really shouldn't trust a soul in this game. Not when everyone has something to gain or lose.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#52. For every winner, there's a loser. And that person didn't really need to lose. They just didn't understand the game plan.
Buzz Aldrin
#54. The World Cup is a very complicated tournament - six games, seven if you make it to the final - and maybe if you lose one game you're out, even if you're the best.
Pele
#55. Money is not important It is OK to lose in the markets Trading is a game Mental rehearsal is important for success They've won the game before they start[xlviii]
Bruce Bower
#56. Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.
Joseph Brodsky
#57. Pro football is a game; not a war. It's for win or lose, not life or death ... but say that in the summer, for winter brings the playoffs, and a season is at stake.
John Facenda
#58. The only place you can win a football game is on the field, the only place you can lose it is in your hearts.
Darrell Royal
#59. Life is merely a numbers game, a series of odds, and eventually we all lose. To think otherwise is foolish. But if we didn't, why would anyone ever bother getting out of bed in the morning?
Pete Wentz
#60. Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.
Magnus Carlsen
#61. Stats don't matter. I care about winning, not stats. If I score 0 points and we win I'm happy. If I score 50, 60 points, break the records, and we lose, I'm pissed off. 'Cause I knew I did something wrong. I'll have a hell of a season if I win the championship and average 20 points a game.
Shaquille O'Neal
#62. Now, his hair is white and he no longer understands anyone's need to love, for he has lost everything, not to love, but to his games of love; and when you love as a game, you lose everything, as he lost his home and wife, and now he clings to me, afraid of loss, afraid of solitude.
Anais Nin
#63. We can't afford to be so worried about losing the next election that we lose the battles we owe to the next generation. The real gamble in this election is playing the same Washington game with the same Washington players and expecting a different result. And that's a risk we can't take.
Barack Obama
#64. That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way is winning.
Richard Bach
#65. To lose a problem, do not oppose, let go of any need to control, perhaps it's all an illusion we project, more like a game we play than real?
Jay Woodman
#66. I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.
Rafael Nadal
#67. It's easier for me to get ready for a game on the road because you're expected to lose when you play away from home. That's a challenge to right there and that perks my competitive juices.
Michael Jordan
#68. I've always felt that the mark of a man is his willingness to fight for his principles. It doesn't matter if you win or lose. It doesn't matter if you ever had a chance to win in the first place. Even if the deck is rigged and the game's against you, you keep fighting until the bitter end.
Craig Schaefer
#69. I ain't never had much fun. I ain't never been two inches away from a football. Here guys go fishing on the day of the game, hunting, golfing, and all I want to do is be alone, studying how not to lose.
Bear Bryant
#70. If the game is designed for you to lose, don't play that game. Play a different one.
Seth Godin
#71. Now it's virtually impossible to write a game that successfully provides challenge and frustration, and that's a shame. We are going to lose something that makes scientists, that makes doers, that makes hard-minded, witty, clever people, and I worry that those people aren't being made these days.
Patrick Rothfuss
#72. Religion, therefore - despite the correctness of its insistence that something needs to be done about our relationship with God - remains unqualified bad news: it traps us in a game we will always and everywhere lose.
Robert Farrar Capon
#73. For those who want to pick up old fights, we're game, but what a waste of time. Why not join hands instead? Join hands in the biggest challenge of all, where we all win, or we all lose: the battle for the survival and progress of our one and only country.
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
#74. Life is like a game, Charlie Brown ... Sometimes you win ... Sometimes you lose."
"I'll be happy if I just make the playoffs.
Charles M. Schulz
#75. Everything is just a game... made by human and the complexity is again made by human... so after all you re under the code... that's why you lose.
Deyth Banger
#76. If the owner of a franchise is approached and promised good money for his team to lose an irrelevant game, he tells his players to lose the game and they don't care because they get paid huge amounts anyway.
Rashid Latif
#77. Never force something, Drew. A bolt, a pass, a game, whatever." His dark brown eyes held mine. "Force it and you'll lose. Patience and persistence is how you win in life. Take your time, look for the solution, and if it doesn't come to you, fall back, reassess, and try again.
Kristen Callihan
#78. Obviously, every game's big. It's lose or get yourself in a bad situation.
Jered Weaver
#79. 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
#80. Once upon a time, this moment - this last light of the evening the day before the race - was the best moment of the year for me. The anticipation of the game to come. But that was when all I had to lose was my life.
Maggie Stiefvater
#81. When it's over, it's over is part of football's greatest appeal to me. When a game ends, win or lose, it's time to prepare for the next one.
Tony Dungy
#82. We live in a reward-centered society. When I was a child, my father used to say, "It's not whether you win or lose but how well you play the game." I used to think that was about sports, but as an adult, I realize what I create, do, etc., is more important than winning a prize.
Renee Lawless
#83. If you've had a good time playing the game, you're a winner even if you lose.
Malcolm Forbes
#84. Everybody says that it takes a loss to lose and I think it did take a loss for us to lose in a sense. But overall, when we win games here at Duke, and we don't play well, we might as well have lost the game.
Jason Williams
#86. You can lose when you outscore somebody in a game. And you can win when you're outscored.
John Wooden
#87. Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn't.
LeBron James
#88. You learn to accept defeat graciously in golf. Unlike other sports, the game itself is a constant opponent. It never stops. A golfer is fortunate to win a few times. We spend our whole lives trying to conquer something, and we lose a lot more than we win.
Ben Crenshaw
#89. The thing that's really kept me on my toes is how my mom would always tell me - it's not the best thing for a mother to tell you - but she'd never tell me after I'd lose a soccer game, 'You'll do better next time.' She'd always say, 'There's always somebody better.'
Brandon Flowers
#90. My insides feel like they are crumbling like a towering JENGA game. I lose.
Steph Campbell
#91. Basketball is a game and their primary reason for participating in the sport is simply for the pleasure they experience while playing. Don't be afraid to lose. Have fun while you're busy playing hard and playing smart.
Morgan Wootten
#92. Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.
Chuck Noll
#93. You know that old expression "It's not whether you win or lose; it's how you play the game". That line was definitely not coined by a chef. Because for a chef, it's only about whether or not you pull through. If you fail, nobody cares how hard you tried.
Marcus Samuelsson
#94. It was the horror of someone who'd been dealt a winning hand, had bet her life on the game, and then proceeded (deliberately?) to lose.
Marie Rutkoski
#95. Sometimes you play a game even when you know you're going to lose or sometimes you leave a game even when you know you can win.
Unknown
#96. Love is not a game, ladies. Treat it like one, and you're bound to lose. Everyone talks about the rewards of finding that one person. Nobody warns you about the pain of losing him.
Lauren Layne
#97. Life is indeed a gamble, the ultimate game of chance, based purely upon having the ability to make the right choices at the right time. You never win or lose in life if you realise it is all just for the experience. Learn to create your own destiny, don't wait to see what fate throws your way.
Steven Redhead
#98. They're all weak, all women. They're stupid compared to men. They shouldn't play chess, you know. They're like beginners. They lose every single game against a man. There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knight-odds to and still beat.
Bobby Fischer
#99. The mental game of 'holding out,' not eating for as long as possible, at least for me, was a really unhealthy mental place. I would inevitably lose that battle and eat too much in one sitting and end up really mad at myself.
Alison Sweeney
#100. First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game
Siegbert Tarrasch
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