Sometimes You Win Sometimes You Lose Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes when you win, you really lose. And sometimes when you lose, you really win. And sometimes when you win or lose, you actually tie. And sometimes when you tie, you actually win or lose. Winning or losing is all one organic mechanism, from which one extracts what one needs. — Rosie Perez

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to quote another paradoxical gem of my dad's: sometimes you have to lose to win. — Donna Tartt

Sometimes you have to lose a piece to win a game. — Rick Riordan

I think sometimes, when you're on top and all you do is win, win, win, win, win, you get lazy and lose focus. When you lose it opens your eyes and you get serious. There is always a time when it is good to lose, at the right time for you. — Usain Bolt

Sometimes you'll win, sometimes you'll lose, but you must never run away. — Lesley Downer

Unfortunately, sometimes the fans forget who puts the money and passion into the club. It's funny, but when you win, it's the coach and the players who are responsible, but when you lose, it's the owner's fault; but that's football. — Andrea Della Valle

Wall Street sometimes gets confused between risk and uncertainty, and you can profit handsomely from that confusion. The low-risk, high-uncertainty [situation] gives us our most sought after coin-toss odds. Heads, I win; tails, I don't lose much. — Mohnish Pabrai

Sometimes some moments arrive in life: You go forward and you lose; you go backwards and you win! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes you get rained out. — Satchel Paige

Sometimes, when you win, you lose. — Annabella Sciorra

Sometimes in football you deserve to win but lose. Other times you deserve to lose or draw but you win. That is the game, and it's why I've always said you should never try to predict anything in football, especially in Europe. — Mario Balotelli

That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut loose. People need to understand that no one is playing with marked cards; sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Don't expect to get anything back, don't expect recognition for your efforts, don't expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Complete the circle. Not out of pride, inability or arrogance, but simply because whatever it is no longer fits in your life. Close the door, change the record, clean the house, get rid of the dust. Stop being who you were and become who you are. — Paulo Coelho

You can't be afraid to lose!" he shouted with a jolt of force, and he pointed at me. "You will not win all the time in life. Sometimes the other team's gonna lick ya. But you have to believe you will win. You know who wins in this world? I don't care if it's football or politics or business. The bold people win. The audacious people. People who are afraid to lose, they beat themselves. They lose before they ever get started. They have their excuses before the game is even played. — Joe Posnanski

You win some, you lose some. And sometimes you win and lose at the same time. Life's a bloody cockup. — Gayle Forman

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

Sport for me is about inspiring kids. Here's the rules, here's the play area, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. This is all about teaching kids how to approach life. If we're not playing sport to benefit kids, I'm not really sure why we play sport. — Russell Crowe

In blackjack gambling, as easy as it seems to win, sometimes you need to lose, let out the bad air or karma, a bleed of your life or soul, like draining a blood blister. The effects can be quite nasty on the average human mind, but all you need to do is take time out, and next day remember the beauty of the loss, in all its perfection, and know that you have lived, have felt the power of the Universe in all its glory. — Robert Black

Sometimes you have to lose to win again. — Fantasia Barrino

Sometimes when you lose you win, son. Failure is just life's way of preparing you for success. — Bernie Mac

As an athlete, you sort of just win every day. Because you're going to sometimes lose every day. And so you just keep picking yourself up and going forward. — Beth Brooke

There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win. — Elie Wiesel

Love is always dangerous. To love is to hope you'll win it all while running the risk that you could lose it all. And sometimes it's also about accepting that there's a risk that you'll love more than you are loved. — Guillaume Musso

Haven't you ever played Uno? ... Sometimes you have to lose all your cards to win. — Brad Meltzer

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

Love is a gamble and sometimes it hurts, but whether you win or lose being in love is a beautiful thing. — M.J. Abraham

There are no guarantees with finally being honest and coming clean with people. Sometimes you don't win love back. Sometimes you lose the love you had. Sometimes you crush people that cared. Sometimes you break apart families. Sometimes you lose your career. Sometimes you lose your way of life. Sometimes you end up worse off than you were before. However, you walk away with a heart free from lies, regret and you have closure. Within time, you find yourself in a life that is far from the prison you once lived in. This type of freedom is the scariest road you will ever travel. However, it is the road God will never let you travel alone. — Shannon L. Alder

sometimes you have to lose to win. — Donna Tartt

But it's inevitable you'll lose the plot sometimes playing top-level sport. Everyone wants this perfect world, but the mentality you've been engrained with is to fight and scrap for everything, to win every little battle and every little decision. Especially when you are young, you feel like you are fighting against the world. Occasionally you lose your head, even if you wish you wouldn't. I'm — Gary Neville

I'm not afraid to fail. Sometimes when you lose, you win. Sometimes when you win, you lose. — Bernie Mac

And sometimes," he continued while flipping another one, "I can lose and lose and lose and I don't know why. But there's nothing I can do but just keep flipping the cards. Eventually, I'll win again. As long as you got cards to keep turning, you're fine. Now, that's life," he said, pushing another hand I won over to me. — Jason Reynolds

Sometimes you win or sometimes you lose.
I don't wanna lose you, Don't even own you.
I just wanna stay right here, Until never dawns — Corinne Bailey Rae

My guys look for me to step up in that magnitude and I take the challenge every time. Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose, but you've got to have a guy that will take those shots and deal with the consequences. — Chauncey Billups

Sometimes you have to lose major championships before you can win them. It's the price you pay for maturing. The more times you can put yourself in pressure situations, the more times you compete, the better off you are. — Tom Watson

With Ferrari sometimes, you win or you lose depending on what the mood of the team in general, of the group in general. — Fernando Alonso

Sometimes you lose some tournaments you should win and you win some you should lose. — Charlie Rose

What's important is the will to win. In the real world we can't always win. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. — Haruki Murakami

Adam and Eve didn't know what they would win or what they would lose until they'd both won and lost it. It's like that poem we read. The guy doesn't know what the meaning is of the road he took until he got to the end of it. You choose first, then you find out what you've chosen after. Every choice has a price. Sometimes we don't know what it is until after we've paid it. — Tiffany Reisz

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