Top 100 Lose To Win Quotes
#1. Or
to quote another paradoxical gem of my dad's: sometimes you have to lose to win.
Donna Tartt
#3. There is no doubt that man is a competitive animal and there is no place where this fact is more obvious than in the ring. There is no second place. Either you win or you lose. When they call you a champion, it's because you don't lose. To win takes a complete commitment of mind and body.
Rocky Marciano
#5. Throughout the parables the paradoxical teachings continue: Give to receive. Die to live. Lose to win.
Amos Smith
#6. I needed the loss. I needed to lose to win. Like they say, 'If you lose, don't lose the lessons.
Phyllis George Brown
#7. I am a sore loser. I've always been like that ever s'nce I started playin' sports and just life in general. I hate to lose and I play to win.
Snoop Dogg
#8. I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.
Rafael Nadal
#9. The new women in politics seem to be saying that we already know how to lose, thank you very much. Now we want to learn how to win.
Gloria Steinem
#10. When you lose the title, that doesn't mean you lose the contract to what you had. Just like when you win the title, it doesn't mean you win brains, PhDs and MAs.
Don King
#11. We picked the Red Sox because they lose. If you root for something that loses for 86 years, you're a pretty good fan. You don't have to win everything to be a fan of something.
Jimmy Fallon
#12. I tried to be the leader ... that was my aim. But it is important to know how to win and how to lose.
Vitali Klitschko
#13. 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
#14. Stop giving yourself permission to fail;
start giving yourself permission to succeed.
You cannot win battles you have already lost in your mind.
You cannot lose battles you have already won in your heart.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#15. Our doubts are traitors and make us
lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. In other words, a
wish is a good place to start but then you have to get off your butt and make it
happen. You have to pick up a quill and write your own damn story. (Mimi Wallingford)
Suzanne Selfors
#16. Be so strong that no one can ignore you. By blaming others you never win, but you do lose to your conscience again and again.
Debasish Mridha
#17. If she's going to win, we need a plan." Her smile was diabolical, and I grinned with her. I'd never met anyone as organized as these girls. If I had them, there was no way I could lose.
Kiera Cass
#18. Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.
Brian Clough
#19. It's not that I want to win, it's just that I don't want to lose.
Gackt
#20. I (God) will leave man to make the fateful guess, Will leave him torn between the no and yes, Leave him unresting till he rests in me, Drawn upward by the choice that makes him free, Leave him in tragic loneliness to choose, With all in life to win or all to lose.
Edwin Markham
#21. The life of a professional golfer is precarious at best. Win, and they carry you to the clubhouse on their shoulders. Lose, and you pay the caddies in the dark.
Gene Sarazen
#22. William Shakespeare put it this way, Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
Earl Nightingale
#23. Whether you win a match or lose a match, in terms of your emotions, it's important to be pretty levelheaded.
Maria Sharapova
#24. It is better to lose and gain the love, than win and lose the love.
Debasish Mridha
#25. I don't like losing. I like winning. I don't like to lose beautiful matches. I like to win ugly ones.
Ernests Gulbis
#26. If you think you are going to win, you'll lose. Moreover, if you think you are going to lose, you'll lose.
Toshihiko Seko
#28. Winning is based to a certain extent upon personal power. If you have enough personal power you tend to win. If you don't, you tend to lose.
Frederick Lenz
#29. It's the only way I think I'm ever going to walk away from the game, is to go ahead and say I'm going to, and then I've got to. There's no turning back now - win, lose or draw.
Bobby Cox
#30. Jim Rohrbach sticks to his rules. You can learn from him and win, or ignore him and lose. It's an easy choice. He gives trend following a good name!
Michael Covel
#31. The difference is almost all mental. The top players just hate to lose. I think that's the difference. A champion hates to lose even more than she loves to win.
Chris Evert
#32. My heart is in this work, for it is not a question of 'Will we win' or 'Will we lose.' We must win, and that is all there is to it.
William Kalush
#33. 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
#34. It always feels good to win, it's always tough to lose.
Tim Duncan
#35. The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Vince Lombardi
#36. I hate to lose more than I like to win.
Larry Bird
#37. the person who has the weapon to make you win or lose is .......YOU
Fiona Harrold
#38. I always used to tell my players that we are here to win! And you know what, Al? When you don't win, you lose.
John Madden
#39. If there is something to win and nothing to lose from asking a question then ask whatever it takes
W. Clement Stone
#40. To win, the first thing you have to do is not lose.
Warren Buffett
#41. I love the shot put because you win or lose by yourself. Either I get exposed, or I dominate. I always dominated because I trained to dominate.
Tom Lister Jr.
#42. I can't say, 'It doesn't matter if you win or lose.' It's not true. You go in to win.
Katarina Witt
#43. You can't win unless you try to win, but you can lose by trying not to lose.
Jack Campbell
#44. I'm ready to lose my life if that's what Portugal needs to win. I'll play vs USA even if I play with one leg.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#45. Wanting to win is what keeps the trade on, If you win, you lose the trade.
Auliq Ice
#46. Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#47. 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
#49. It is the things we can't afford to lose that make us fight until we win."
~ Shrouded in Pompei
Lisa Fantino
#50. I hate to lose more than I like to win. I hate to see the happiness on their faces when they beat me!
Jimmy Connors
#51. 12
Lose Battles, But Win The War: Grand Strategy
Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it.
Robert Greene
#52. 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
#53. Win or lose, we achieve nothing in the world that we understand [ ... ]' 'But then the world does not matter.' 'Indeed it does not [ ... ] It is good to understand that.
David Gemmell
#54. Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.
Earl Weaver
#55. You are the spokesman for your character, you put on his case. Are you going to win or lose? There'll be no drama if you look like a loser at the outset.
Clive Swift
#56. The way I figure is we win as a team and we lose as a team, but I've got to figure out some way where I can have a better April and help the team get off to a better start. I normally heat up when it gets warm, but it would be nice to come out of April and everybody is chasing you.
Albert Belle
#57. I've said many times, 'You learn to win through not liking to lose.' And that's what I mean by learning how to win.
Tom Watson
#58. My will shall shape the future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force. I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice, my responsibility. Win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny.
Elaine Maxwell
#59. Any manager will tell you that they would rather win one and lose two than to draw three, because you get more points
Les Ferdinand
#60. When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.
Venus Williams
#62. When you think of me as a football player, I would like for people to think that I put it on the line every time. Good or bad, win or lose, I put it on the line.
Joe Greene
#63. Sometimes in life you're going to win and sometimes you're going to lose. But just because you lose doesn't mean the other guy needs to win.
John Scalzi
#64. Win or lose, I've been fortunate to be able to pitch deep enough into games to get decisions.
Dontrelle Willis
#65. My saying is; We win and lose together. I think that really does apply to both my fans, family and the team.
Lewis Hamilton
#66. One always has to be willing to lose to be able to win ... in battle and in life. I wonder. Are you willing to lose, Rayla?
Christie Rich
#67. Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.
Karl Rove
#68. Eighty per cent of teams who score first in matches go on to win them. But they may draw some - or occasionally lose.
David Pleat
#70. To lose--get angry and fight back. To win--forgive with love.
Debasish Mridha
#71. One shouldn't be afraid to lose; this is sport. One day you win; another day you lose. Of course, everyone wants to be the best. This is normal. This is what sport is about. This is why I love it.
Oksana Baiul
#72. 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
#73. Any time you try to win everything, you must be willing to lose everything.
Larry Csonka
#74. Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose - to accept defeat. To learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes you must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying!
Bruce Lee
#75. In order to WIN the game, you must first not LOSE it.
Chuck Noll
#76. It is not enough for me to win. My enemies must lose.
David Merrick
#77. I remember my late father, who was the biggest football fan I have ever known, used to stress when I was younger that, win or lose, you always have to compete with honor.
Adam Richman
#78. It occurred to me, even in that moment: you can win the battle and still lose the war.
Chris Cole
#79. Regardless of what happens, I still honor my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, because at the end of the day, that's what's important, win or lose ... We need to get back to one nation under God, and be role models for kids,
Tim Tebow
#80. Americans like a winner. If you lose, you're nothing. I'm going to win, though. It's good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We've met five times. He's won three times
and we've drawn twice. But I'm a stronger player and a long match favors me.
Bobby Fischer
#81. I was the guy that told Bill Clinton he was going to win. I had gotten the final polling numbers. He had a comfortable lead. He was not going to lose.
Paul Begala
#82. If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care.
Winston Churchill
#83. In order to win, we pay with energy and effort and discipline. If we lose, we pay in disappointment, discontent, and lack of fulfillment.
Maya Angelou
#84. That's the thing about marriage. It's a shell game we play with ourselves. We're the suckers and we have to lose, but we play anyway because we lie to ourselves that we can win.
R. K. Milholland
#85. It is easier to lose a thousand disciples than to win over one.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#86. A child is born to win, but too many have been conditioned to lose.
Zig Ziglar
#87. It is easier to lose a thosuand disciples than to win over one.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#88. The bittersweetness of uncertainty: To win or to lose.
Markus Zusak
#89. When we continue to hate, we continue to lose. When we amplify mutual respect and love, we have a lot to gain. Quite simply, there is more for us to gain through love than hate.
Suzy Kassem
#90. I prefer to play and lose rather than win, because I know in advance I'm going to win.
Eric Cantona
#91. It is not enough merely to win; others must lose.
Gore Vidal
#92. Sometimes you have to lose a piece to win a game.
Rick Riordan
#93. 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
#94. A competitive world offers two possibilities. You can lose. Or, if you want to win, you can change.
Lester Thurow
#95. The only advice that I'm in the mood to give - and that I give regularly - to young people is this: fight for what you believe in. You will lose, just like I have lost, all the battles. But only one you may win. The one that you engage every morning, in front of the mirror.
Indro Montanelli
#96. In life you are given two ends; one to think with and the other to sit on. Your success in life depends on which end you use most. Heads you win, tails you lose.
Conrad Burns
#97. I will do" gives you a great chance to win; "I will try" gives you a great chance to lose. Pick your words wisely.
Farshad Asl
#98. If you claim a standard, you have to live by it. Win or lose. Else the standard never meant nothing.
Robert Brooks
#99. Good isn't obsessed to win
But
Bad is destined to lose
Hemdiva Dev
#100. The fact of the matter is that people who have a strong desire to win, to be the best at what they do, are more likely to reach their full potential than someone who says, "I don't care if I win or lose, I just want to get better.
Stan Beecham
