Quotes & Sayings About Winning Or Losing Games

It is true that when we take chances, we stand to lose. But it is also true that we will never win anything if we never even enter the game. Lucky people are aware of the possibility of losing, and indeed they may lose often. But since the chances they take are small, the losses tend to be small. By being willing to accept small losses they put themselves in position to make large gains. — Max Gunther

It is more likely that coaches have players go down in games they are losing than games they are winning. — George M. Gilbert

Boxing is a glorious sport to watch and boxers are incredible, heroic athletes, but it's also, to be honest, a stupid game to play. Even the winners can end up with crippling brain damage. In a lot of ways, hustling is the same. But you learn something special from playing the most difficult games, the games where winning is close to impossible and losing is catastrophic: You learn how to compete as if your life depended on it. That's the lesson I brought with me to the so-called "legitimate" world. — Jay-Z

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

It just a fun game, until someone starts to win and then everyone else begins to cheat! — Andrew James Pritchard

We are not familiar with losing, and that is one thing we stress in this locker room: Dont get familiar with losing, because we never lose games here. I think a lot of guys know that, and they know the tradition behind the Green Bay Packers, so it is time for us to get on this road and start winning games. — Donald Driver

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

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

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

Winning the Games will make you famous, losing will mean death. — Suzanne Collins

Good players win you games, good formations stop you losing them. — Gordon Strachan

Do we fight? If we do, then know that in battle there is only winning and losing. Rules against hurting are for games. — Robert Jordan

Winning means fame and fortune.
Losing means certain death.
The Hunger Games have begun ... — Suzanne Collins

Too afraid to touch anything, I found sitting in the custom made indow cubby the safest place for me to be as I played games with raindrops. Rainy days made the time pass more quickly as I pretended I was the tiniest raindrop on its descent down the glass. My goal would be to not make it to the bottom. I counted on morphing with the other, bigger raindrops and kept count of the times I won and the times I lost. The heaviness of the storm would dictate my luck. The heavier the storm, the more likely gravity would ruin my chances at survival. When I started losing more than I was winning, I rested my forehead on the cold hard glass and asked them if disintegrating on impact was really all that bad. It was time for a new distraction. — Cherry Tigris

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

Playing games with agreed upon rules helps children learn to live by rules, establish the delicate balance between competition andcooperation, between fair play and justice and exploitation and abuse of these for personal gain. It helps them learn to manage the warmth of winning and the hurt of losing; it helps them to believe that there will be another chance to win the next time. — James P. Comer

You didn't win the game of life by losing the least. That would be one of those-what were they called again?-Pyrrhic victories. Real winning was having the most to lose, even if it meant you might lose it all. Even though it meant you would lose it all, sooner or later. — Tommy Wallach

If it's not whether you win or lose but how you play the game, why keep score? — Ron Brackin

What's the point of dating without games? How do you know if you're winning or losing? — Jerry Seinfeld

In a game, just losing is almost as satisfying as just winning ... In life the loser's score is always zero. — W. H. Auden

I really enjoy playing with someone else and whether it's chess or tennis or games, I love card games. I love that, but I think there's something so important to gain from winning and losing and learning how to lose and how you can be better from that. — Hilary Swank

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

Winning will make you famous. Losing means certain death. — Suzanne Collins