Losers Winning Quotes & Sayings

Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not. — Bill Gates

You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers. — Pat Summitt

Be aware of "yes" men. Generally, they are losers. Surround yourself with winners. Never forget - people win. — Bear Bryant

Active management is a zero-sum game before cost, and the winners have to win at the expense of the losers. — Eugene Fama

If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term. — David Mitchell

Failure inspires winners. And failure defeats losers. It is the biggest secret of winners. It's the secret that loser do not know. The greatest secret of winners is that failure inspires winning; thus, they're not afraid of losing. — Robert Kiyosaki

winning or losing an agonist encounter has a dramatic impact on future aggressive behavior. Winners are more likely to initiate attacks against unknown opponents, whereas losers are more circumspect and likely to retreat from unfamiliar conspecifics, adopting an opportunistic strategy, picking and choosing their fights. In the worst case scenario, animals socially subjugated by constant threat and attack from dominant conspecifics develop a submissive phenotype, showing little or no aggressive behavior, essentially eliminating themselves from the gene pool. — Randy J. Nelson

Unfortunately, to succeed in business, organizations need to make difficult choices all the time-what to do and, more important, what not to do. The truth of the matter is that whenever we make a difficult choice, some people will win and some will lose. The winners will be happy and the losers unhappy. It's impossible to make everybody happy all the time. If everybody in your organization is happy, that may be because you're failing to lead them. — Constantinos C. Markides

In this life, you have winners and losers. the more you win, the higher you go. — Daniel Nayeri

Then with the losers let it sympathize,
For nothing can seem foul to those that win. — William Shakespeare

Winners expect to win before the contest starts; losers don't. Any individual becomes what he or she thinks about most. If you want to be a champion, then that thought must dominate your life. But most important, winners dwell on the rewards of winning; losers dwell on the penalties of failure. — Wade Schalles

We were losers who talked a winning game. No wonder honesty came to mean for my sister saying only the most damaging things against herself. If she began by admitting defeat, then something was possible: sincerity, perhaps, or at least the avoidance of appearing ludicrous. — Edmund White

Impatience has ruined many crowns; it had lured people to give up when they have just few minute to win, just few millimeters to touch the winning carpet! — Israelmore Ayivor

It's a town full of losers
And I'm pulling out of here to win. — Bruce Springsteen

We want to be on the winning team, but at the risk of turning our backs on the losers, no, it is not worth it. So we fight the long defeat. — Paul Farmer

If you believe in winners and losers you're one of the losers. — Marty Rubin

All haters are losers, even when they win. — Paulo Coelho

If the losers are dead, the dead are also losers.
There is a contradiction here: If the prize for winning finite play is life, then the players are not properly alive. They are competing for life. Life, then, is not play, but the outcome of play. Finite players play to live; they do not live their playing. Life is therefore deserved, bestowed, possessed, won. It is not lived. — James P. Carse

Losers are winners who quit, ... even if you lose ... you still win ... if you don't quit. — Cus D'Amato

Competition is healthy ... but there is more to life than winning or we should nearly all be losers — Charles Handy

Obstacles are challenges for winners and excuses for losers — M.E. Kerr

Excuses are for losers, and winning is for winners, like you! — RuPaul

Success is not as easy as winners make it look nor as hard as losers make it sound. — Orrin Woodward

Associating with winners may not make you a winner, but associating with losers will definitely not make you one. — Jeffrey Fry

Worse than getting kicked out of your slot to go on to a winning season is to lead during a losing one. Nobody wants to be king of the losers. — A.D. Aliwat

The biggest losers are those who care only about winning. — Lance Armstrong

Because," he said in an even voice, "you're used to winning, so you don't even think about how, every time there's a game, both sides get that 'rah, rah, team' speech from their coaches both sides hear 'you're the best!' 'You've got to win!' 'You're the greatest!' But half of the people playing that game are going to walk away losers. Half! — Margaret Peterson Haddix

The best winners are the worst losers. — Habeeb Akande

Winners train, losers complain. Give me twelve players that want to win and they will find a way to win. — Red Auerbach

Losers have tons of variety. Champions just take pride in learning to hit the same old boring winning shots. — Vic Braden

Winning is irreplaceable winners are. — Pushpa Rana

Losers assemble in small groups & complain, winners assemble as a team & find ways to win. — Bill Parcells

The race to win turns us all into losers. — Alfie Kohn

Did you know, throughout the cosmos they found intelligent life forms that play to play? We are the only ones that play to win. Explains why we have more than our share of losers. — Lily Tomlin

Winning isn't as sweet if you don't see an enemy cry. But remember, losers wail loud no matter what. — Ymatruz

A winner has more skills than a loser," Vor said, "no matter how you define the competition. — Brian Herbert

But they don't deserve to be winning!"
"And who does in this world, Roland? Only the gifted and the beautiful and the brave? What about the rest of us, Champ? What about the wretched, for example? What about the weak and the lowly and the desperate and the fearful and the deprived, to name but a few who come to mind? What about losers? What about failures? What about the ordinary fucking outcasts of this world - who happen to comprise ninety percent of the human race! Don't they have dreams, Agni? Don't they have hopes? Just who told you clean-cut bastards own the world anyway? Who put you clean-cut bastards in charge, that's what I'd like to know! Oh, let me tell you something. All-American Adonis : you fair-haired sons of bitches have had your day. It's all over, Agni. We're not playing according to your clean-cut rules anymore - we're playing according to our own! The Revolution has begun! Henceforth the Mundys are the master race! Long live Glorious Mundy! — Philip Roth

In American elections there are no losers, because whether or not our candidates win or lose, the next morning we wake up as Americans. — John F. Kerry

Stats are for losers. I like winning games. — Will Muschamp

I only see what I want to see. Winners see winning, Losers see losing. You are what you think you are. — Moe Norman

These equalizing mechanisms may derive from simple morality, or they may come from the practical understanding that losers, if they are unable to get out of the game of success to the successful, and if they have no hope of winning, could get frustrated enough to destroy the playing field. — Donella H. Meadows

Losers [...] gain psychic satisfaction from belonging to a winning cause. — Frances McCall Rosenbluth

Containment is a strategy for losers! But as General George S. Patton famously observed, Americans play to win all the time. Americans don't play to lose. — Bobby Jindal

The world's No. 1 tennis player spends 90 percent of his time winning, while the world's No. 1 golfer spends 90 percent of his time losing. Golfers are great losers. — David Feherty

The most constructive solutions are those which take into consideration the views of all persons involved and are acceptable to all. Such outcomes are the result of negotiation strategies where the needs of both sides are considered important and an attempt is made to meet all needs. These solutions are appropriately called Win-Win because there are no losers. While often difficult to arrive at, the process leading to such solutions builds interpersonal relationships, increases motivation and improves commitment. Win-Win solutions are the most desirable outcomes of conflict resolution. — Gabor Peter

The defeat of your enemy lies within the peace of your heart and the humbleness of your thoughts. — Auliq Ice

The price of winning is dedication and the price of dedication is concentration. To get any of the two you have to accept to toil for both. — Auliq Ice

I have fought the long defeat and brought other people on to fight the long defeat, and I'm not going to stop because we keep losing. Now I actually think sometimes we may win. I don't dislike victory ... You know, people from our background-like you, like most PIH-ers, like me-we're used to being on a victory team, and actually what we're really trying to do in PIH is to make common cause with the losers. Those are two very different things. We want to be on the winning team, but at the risk of turning our backs on the losers, no, it's not worth it. So you fight the long defeat. — Tracy Kidder