Losing Quotes - page 40

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)
It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first. View quote
Jackie Robinson
I don't think you could get anything worse than losing a child. I think if my child died, I would prefer it if I were dead. View quote
Saoirse Ronan
So I don't know what the record attendance is in this arena, but I was told that we broke it by a lot. And you got the people outside. Are we allowed to tell them who we would like them to vote for? Because you're allowed to skip. All right, so wait a minute, let's do a poll. We do this for the fake news back there. Ready? Who would be the best candidate for us? Not for them. We're ready. Ready? So let's go through them just quickly. We won't include Steyer because he's a loser. He's out, okay? We won't include him. Who would be the best? This is a real poll. This isn't one of those fake polls taken by ... In all fairness, I love you, Fox, taken by Fox, the worst pollster. This guy ... this pollster hates Trump's guts. I was losing the last election by a fortune. They said, "He did great with women.”. View quote
Donald Trump
There's nothing worse than people who want to make you feel better when you are losing. I just want to smack them. View quote
Kate Mara
People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate by buying insurance, including totally absurd policies like air travel. View quote
Daniel Kahneman
Sometimes I think there's no such thing as falling in love. It's just the fear of losing someone. View quote
Jodi Picoult
Everyone is afraid of something. We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We fear dying because we value being alive. Don't wish you didn't fear anything. All that would mean is that you didn't feel anything. View quote
Cassandra Clare
We always believed that we were part of a great movement of humanity itself called democracy, involved in the search for freedom, and that belief has always strengthened us in our purpose. But just as we are losing our confidence in the future, we are also beginning to close the door on our past. View quote
Jimmy Carter
If I can keep losing myself - and finding parts of myself - in other people's writing and direction, then that's all I can really ask for. That's all I want, to keep losing myself. View quote
Andrew Garfield
Losing my mom at such a young age had a profound effect on my life. (Molly Shannon)
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas. View quote
Orson Welles
For my part, I spent three years reading the history and literature of the Civil War, with special attention to that of the losing side. The people who emerged were human, all-too-human, but there was still the mystery of the encompassing passion which held them together, and this I have not yet penetrated. But in a dozen various ways I came to recognize myself in the past, which is at least an important piece of self-knowledge. View quote
Richard Weaver
The reality of the 'Maunder Minimum' and its implications of basic solar change may be but one more defeat in our long and losing battle to keep the sun perfect, or, if not perfect, constant, and if inconstant, regular. Why we think that sun should be any of these when other stars are not is more a question for social than for physical science. View quote
John A. Eddy
I never regretted turning down anything, I never regretted losing a job because I always felt something else was out there. View quote
Carol Burnett
Many people have asked me how I feel about losing my job. View quote
Carly Fiorina
If you score first, you have a 75 per cent chance of not losing the game. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to work out that you have to get off to a good start and score. View quote
Phil Brown (footballer)
To expiate the pain of losing her firstborn son in the Iraq war, Cindy Sheehan decided to cheer herself up by engaging in Stalinist agitprop outside President Bush's Crawford ranch, ... It's the strangest method of grieving I've seen since Paul Wellstone's funeral. Someone needs to teach these liberals how to mourn. View quote
Ann Coulter
I'm looking for what might be called a body language. One thing I do is stick a vibrator up my cunt and start writing -- writing from the point of orgasm and losing control of the language and seeing what that's like. View quote
Kathy Acker
Antimicrobial resistance is on the rise in Europe and elsewhere in the world. We are losing our first-line antimicrobials. Replacement treatments are more costly, more toxic, need much longer durations of treatment, and may require treatment in intensive care units. View quote
Margaret Chan
I think that one of the reasons why people look towards the end of humanity is that people are afraid to die alone. If you die alone, the people you love will miss you, or if they die, you miss them - the sorrow is inevitable. When you truly love someone, the thought of losing them forever is horrible. (Joe Rogan)
The fun never goes out, but it changes with the years, with winning and losing. View quote
Bear Bryant
America, which presents itself as the only superpower, is losing its status as the world's top leader and is becoming an exhausted country with huge debts. This is preparing the ground for its collapse and the fall of other countries into the abyss. View quote
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
I do believe that character is a process, that truth is a process, and I am not interested in winning and losing... View quote
Anna Deavere Smith
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. View quote
Joseph Wood Krutch