Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it’s okay to lose. I don’t. You have to be merciless.
As a parent, it’s my responsibility to equip my child to do this – to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don’t know what happens after death.
When you lose someone you love, you don’t think the same way. And that’s why I say I enjoy life: because it goes very fast.
I just was in the second round. That’s painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that’s sport. You win, you lose.
If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.
Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.
Only one player is not important. The most important thing is the squad, and it’s important to be together. You can’t just lose it over one player.
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
Many big and small things happen in our lives, almost on daily basis, and I hope that everyone would not lose the trust that they have in themselves, and never lose positive attitude.
You have to make the decision to lose weight in your head, not your stomach.
People suppose that you are great if you win and rubbish if you lose. Well, actually, whatever the result I still know what I am doing.
My sweetest hope is to lose hope.
I would like to not lose the first set all the time and not get hit off the court.
I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be loved. And to lose people close to me. Had to feel deep loneliness and sorrow. And then I could write.
If you see a whole thing – it seems that it’s always beautiful. Planets, lives… But up close a world’s all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life’s a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
I basically like the unpredictability factor. When I watch a film, if it becomes predictable, I lose interest in it.
I’m taking each day one day at a time, and building up my strength and endurance. It’s crazy because it takes no time at all to lose everything you have and then so much time to gain it back.
I think in order to accomplish anything in life, you have to visualize yourself there – accepting the award, hearing your song on the radio, whatever it is – or you lose the willpower and the drive.
As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don’t ever want to lose that.
However weak we are, however poor, however little our faith, or however small our grace may be, our names are still written on His heart; nor shall we lose our share in Jesus’ love.
The rich are those who play to win. The middle class plays not to lose.
People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.
No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.
Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose ’em I never knew existed before.
When you win or lose, no-one dies: you win, or you lose.
The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.
There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
I was 85 lbs. at my 2000 homecoming dance. But I wanted my collarbones and hip bones to show more. I’d feel my hip bones to make sure they were out. If not, I had more weight to lose. I lost my period until I was 17. I loved that. It meant I wasn’t healthy, and I didn’t want to be healthy.
If you want to lose 40 pounds, you order salad instead of fries. If you want to be a better friend, you take the phone call instead of screening it. If you want to write a novel, you sit down and write a single paragraph. It’s scary to make major changes, but we usually have enough courage to take the next right step.
I’d rather play bad and win than play good and lose.
No matter what the circumstances, you always enjoy being around guys that you bond with, win, lose, whatever it may be.
If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly.
I think sportsmanship is knowing that it is a game, that we are only as a good as our opponents, and whether you win or lose, to always give 100 percent.
Never lose the childlike wonder. Show gratitude… Don’t complain; just work harder… Never give up.
Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion.
There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.
You can quit smoking and lose weight at the same time.
I’m more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it’s impossible to comprehend.
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
Keep the faith, don’t lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct.
Never lose your undying belief in yourself and your abilities.
You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they’re going to write in whatever clever manner they desire.
For a long time, I have hoped for better days, but alas, today it is necessary for me to lose all hope. My poor wife suffers more and more. I do not think it is possible to be any weaker.
Not much more can happen to you after you lose your reputation and your wife.
What’s the worst that could happen? You’re going to come second or lose? It’s not like someone has got a gun to your head.
People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
There is real beauty in my eyes when I lose my mind.
When we win, I’m so happy I eat a lot. When we lose, I’m so depressed, I eat a lot. When we’re rained out, I’m so disappointed I eat a lot.
It’s hard to win when you always lose.
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
I feel like a fight is a season. When you’re in the UFC, one fight is the equivalent of a whole football season, so when you lose a fight, the fans only remember you from your last fight, so it’s very important to perform well, and to keep winning.
The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
Very gifted people, they win and they win, and they are told that they win because they are a winner. That seems like a positive thing to tell children, but ultimately, what that means is when they lose, it must make them a loser.
I think whenever you lose somebody close to you, there’s always a part of you that wishes you could have done something differently.
What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
A lot of people like me, who’ve been around for years and years and years, only really lose it in their forties and fifties.
You have to always continue to strive no matter how hard things get, no matter how troubled you feel. No matter how tough things get, no matter how many times you lose, you keep trying to win.
I’m such a control freak, and it’s very hard for me to lose my inhibitions without something chemical inside me.
Trump sees the world in terms of a zero-sum game. In reality, globalisation, if well managed, is a positive-sum force: America gains if its friends and allies – whether Australia, the E.U., or Mexico – are stronger. But Trump’s approach threatens to turn it into a negative-sum game: America will lose, too.
Osteoporosis is a disease that attacks the bones in your body. It happens to really almost everyone when they get really old. But for women, after menopause, they can lose up to 30 percent of their bone mass.
I don’t like to lose at all.
You know, even I have had work or ideas come through me from a source that I honestly cannot identify. And what is that thing? And how are we to relate to it in a way that will not make us lose our minds, but, in fact, might actually keep us sane?
Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose some of their alienation. This museum has certainly stood for that in this town.
Don’t give up. Don’t lose hope. Don’t sell out.
What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself – life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
