Top 78 Quotes About Losing A Game
#1. Losing a game is not a big deal, except you've got to make sure that you move on and get the next one.
Martin Brodeur
#2. Lack of patience is probably the most common reason for losing a game, or drawing games that should have been won.
Bent Larsen
#3. The biggest surprise has been making the adjustment after losing a game. In the NBA you could lose tonight and you have to put that game behind you because you have another game the next night.
Dwyane Wade
#4. Goalies almost never get credit for winning a game, but they always get blamed for losing a game.
Steve Carell
#5. Suppose it were perfectly certain that the life and fortune of each of us would some day depend upon our winning or losing a game of chess. Do you not think that we should all consider it to be our primary duty to learn at least the names of the pieces and how to position them on the chessboard?
Aldous Huxley
#6. One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it.
William Hazlitt
#7. Are you forgetting that losing a game is an error or a lesson, but losing one's time is a sin?
Elie Wiesel
#8. He's looking at me. I can feel his eyes from across the yard, where he's losing a game of croquet to his niece, Piper. He's only pretending to try, I think, but it's hard to tell because I'm definitely not looking at him.
Jessica Martinez
#9. When Marx got into a difficult position he would get angry and losing a game would cause him to fly into a rage.
Wilhelm Liebknecht
#10. Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.
Joe Paterno
#11. What is the object of playing a gambit opening? ... To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing a game
Siegbert Tarrasch
#12. If you want to tell something to an athlete, say it quickly and give no alternatives. This is a game of winning and losing. It is senseless to explain and explain.
Paavo Nurmi
#13. 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
#14. In college, I probably lost a total of about 11 games, and then I came to the Celtics and in my first three weeks we went on a nine-game losing streak.
Paul Pierce
#15. He's beginning to like me. I am a better and better audience as I get numbed, and although I've played this game of Impress You (and won it, too--though I don't like either of the prizes; winning is too much like losing) I'm too tired to go on playing tonight.
Joanna Russ
#16. In tennis, losing your service game was called being broken.
If you lost your service without scoring a single point, you were broken at love.
Lyla Payne
#17. Whenever you compete, trying harder is truly the game of diminishing returns and a losing one at that
Jan Garavaglia
#18. The person who demands a sign and at the same time has already determined that anything that cannot be explained scientifically is meaningless is not merely stacking the deck; he is losing at his own game.
Ravi Zacharias
#19. Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.
Joseph Wood Krutch
#20. War has often been called a game, with good reason. Both have combatants. Both have sides. Both carry the risk of losing.
Samantha Shannon
#21. But other people also 'invite' us to behave like victims, when they complain about the unfairness of life, for example, and ask us to agree, to offer advice, to participate.
Be careful. When you join in that game you always end up losing.
Paulo Coelho
#22. All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.
Marcel Duchamp
#23. The only difference between a winning team and a losing team is one game. The winning team can win two out of three games ... the losing team can only win one out of three.
Vin Scully
#24. The man on the rock had pitched five outs in the losing game, and had given up two runs on a single. But he'd inherited loaded bases. The story of his life. The story of all our lives.
David James Duncan
#25. There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.
Gary Gygax
#26. Rich dad always said, "To be successful as an investor or a business owner, you have to be emotionally neutral to winning and losing. Winning and losing are just part of the game." Quitting
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#27. If you think there is such a thing as an unimportant game, just try losing one.
Gene Stallings
#28. No, seriously,' choked Sam, his eyes streaming. 'You're such a loser, that you've actually stopped losing and have progressed to having just lost. It's over. The game is over. You have lost the game of life. Do not pass Go. Do not collect two hundred dollars.
Lili Wilkinson
#29. I'm never going to be content with a comeback when you end up losing ... You can't just accept being in a game that's close and end up losing it. It's just not okay.
Charlie Weis
#30. This morning I was standing in the shower and thought how I was sick of losing and how it was about time I had a big game.
Benji Marshall
#31. It was only one splendid breath they had, in spite of their brave mockery at the winter outside the glass; and it was a losing game in the end, it seemed, this revolt against the homilies by which the world is run.
Willa Cather
#32. I took the game seriously. It was my profession. My teammates also took losing hard. We would all sit in the locker room after losing a big game and talk about how we could have done something differently to change the outcome
Walt Frazier
#33. For almost a minute the two of us were locked in a battle of wills that had no possible winner, only a different order of losing.
Mira Grant
#35. You made me weak. And every time I see you, I wonder, will it happen again? Because you, you're the game changer, the one who makes me question everything, the one who makes me want to be better, the one I almost lost - the one I am so damn terrified of losing again." A
Rachel Van Dyken
#36. Over futile odds, and laughed at by the gods
And now the final frame. Love is a losing game.
Amy Winehouse
#38. Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.
Bill Tilden
#39. One time Yates and I were playing a game.
'Yates,' I said, 'you're going to win!'
'Maybe we could all win,' he said.
'No,' I said, 'we cannot all win. There is a winner and a loser. Losing is an incentive to keep practicing.
Megyn Kelly
#40. 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
#41. I did precisely the wrong thing. The cotton showed me a loss and I kept it. The wheat showed me a profit and I sold it out. Of all the speculative blunders there are few greater than trying to average a losing game. Always sell what shows you a loss and keep what shows you a profit.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#43. Growing old is a 'losing' game. We lose hair, friends, memories, and also simple skills.
Vinayak Shrikhande
#44. Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It's in any game that you're in - a business game or whatever - you can't get complacent.
Venus Williams
#45. I don't want people losing respect for me as a player. I want to go out in every game and perform to the highest level. I have no retirement plans. I've had a lot of injuries but I want to continue playing.
Robbie Fowler
#46. It just a fun game, until someone starts to win and then everyone else begins to cheat!
Andrew James Pritchard
#47. In a game, just losing is almost as satisfying as just winning ... In life the loser's score is always zero.
W. H. Auden
#48. Losing a basketball game hurts but when you see what you've been through, you look on it and say well if this is the worst thing that can happen to me, then I'm okay.
LeBron James
#50. I'm mad at him, too, for being out late. But I'm not mad enough to take a chance on losing a ball game and possibly the pennant.
Casey Stengel
#51. For love was a kind of folly, a losing game. The greatest of all Wastes of Time. But then, that depended on what you thought time was for.
Cassandra Golds
#52. If no mistake have you made, yet losing you are . . . a different game you should play. - YODA
Anthony Robbins
#53. The clock is just as much a part of the game as the board and pieces, and losing because of time-trouble is no different to losing because of weak play
it's still a zero on the score-sheet.
John Nunn
#54. The NHL is the best league in the world, but it's a grind. You sometimes forget, especially if you are losing, or missing the playoffs ... how fun this game can be.
Thomas Vanek
#55. A kind of losing loadum is their game,
Where the worst writer has the greatest fame.
John Wilmot
#56. Life is like a game of chess that you have to play even after losing the king.
Ashish Jaiswal
#57. Voting for Romney after the train wreck of that was the eight years of W. Bush is like losing your pay check playing a rigged game of three-card monte and then playing the same game again a week later 'cause the cards are a different color.
Adam McKay
#58. It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game.
Floyd Abrams
#59. 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
#60. Don't be afraid of losing, be afraid of playing a game and not learning something.
Dan Heisman
#61. Failing one time - or even several times - doesn't make you a failure any more than losing one game makes you a loser.
Frank Sonnenberg
#62. You don't have to be really good anymore to get good results. What's happening with Chess is that it's gradually losing its place as the par excellence of intellectual activity. Smart people in search of a challenging board game might try a game called Go.
Hans Berliner
#63. No matter how I feel about his beliefs,he's the one truly losing here. I knew the risks,but he was just a pawn,torn between so many playing an invisible game.
Victoria Aveyard
#64. I'm kind of a dork. I don't have much game. I'm not particularly comfortable in bars or clubs. I much prefer being home playing Scrabble, having dinner with a couple friends, going to see a movie, or losing a whole weekend to Season 14 of Law and Order or The Simpsons.
Wentworth Miller
#65. To be successful as an investor or a business owner, you have to be emotionally neutral to winning and losing. Winning and losing are just part of the game.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#66. 'Bad Blood' tells the story of Trick, a teenage slacker on the losing side of a fight with cancer. When he's attacked by a vampire, he figures it's game over. Except that the chemo drugs in Trick's blood poison the vampire.
Jonathan Maberry
#67. Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.
Jackie Robinson
#68. Life is a game. Either you win or lose. Never allow the fear of losing prevent you from entering the game.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#69. Some people say love is a losing game, you start with fire and you lose the flame. The ashes smolder, but the warmth's soon gone, you end up cold and lonely on your own.
Bob Seger
#70. Have you ever loved someone that just dont feel the same. tryin and make somebody care for you the way i do is like tryin to catch the rain, and if love is really forever, i'm a winner at a losing game!
Rascal Flatts
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude
Charles Caleb Colton
#74. I'm with you in Rockland
where you scream in a straightjacket that you're losing the game of the actual pingpong of the abyss
Allen Ginsberg
#75. A great defensive effort. The one thing we have to do is make it hard for people to beat us. We're not worried about winning and losing, we just have to make the game hard
John Calipari
#76. One thing about this game: It's really frustrating. In hockey, if you team's losing, you can start a fight. You can get your frustrations out.
Eric Gagne
#77. Any player coming to Spurs whether he's a big signing or just a ground staff boy must be dedicated to the game and to the club. He must be prepared to work at his game. He must never be satisfied with his last performance, and he must hate losing.
Bill Nichols
#78. Trying to stop people from learning, sharing, and loving is a losing game because it means working against God and the plotline of God's universe.
Brian D. McLaren
