best quotations about
Win & Lose |
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Quotations
 | If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain! — Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945, German dictator 62 likes |
 | If it doesn’t matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score? — Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American football coach 47 likes |
 | History is written by the winners. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 46 likes |
 | There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ Romeo & Juliet 37 likes |
 | It's never just a game when you're winning — George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian 24 likes |
 | If you fight you might lose; if you don’t, you have already lost. — Bertolt Brecht, 1898-1956, German writer 17 likes |
 | He who acts, destroys; he who grasps, loses. Therefore the Sage does not act, and so does not destroy; he does not grasp, and so he does not lose. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 17 likes |
 | One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 14 likes |
 | You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose. — Lou Holtz, 1937-, American football coach 13 likes |
 | The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part. — Pierre de Coubertin, 1863-1937, French, father of the Olympic Games 13 likes |
| Winners never quit and quitters never win. — Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American football coach 12 likes |
| We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time. — Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American football coach 12 likes |
 | Every win is an injustice to someone. — Aristotle Onassis, 1900-1975, Greek tycoon 11 likes |
| You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be. — Lou Holtz, 1937-, American football coach 11 likes |
 | Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose! — Karl Lagerfeld, 1933-2019, German fashion designer 10 likes |
| Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is. — Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American football coach 9 likes |
| Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing. — Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American football coach 9 likes |
 | When it comes to winning, you need the skill and the will. — Frank Tyger, 1929-2011, American cartoonist 9 likes |
| Winning medals wasn’t the point of the Olympics. It’s the participating that counts. — Pierre de Coubertin, 1863-1937, French, father of the Olympic Games 8 likes |
 | A quitter never wins and a winner never quits. — Napoleon Hill, 1883-1970, American self-help writer 7 likes |
 | Gamblers and lovers really play to lose. — Lawrence Durrell, 1912-1990, British writer 6 likes |
 | Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose. — Lyndon Johnson, 1908-1973, American President [1963-1969] 5 likes |
 | Players with fight never lose a game, they just run out of time. — John Wooden, 1910-2010, American basketball coach 5 likes |
 | You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. — Margaret Thatcher, 1925-2013, British Prime Minister 5 likes |
| Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate. — Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American football coach 5 likes |
 | You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 4 likes |
 | The day you stop racing, is the day you win the race. — Bob Marley, 1945-1981, Jamaican singer 4 likes |
 | Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 4 likes |
 | How you gather, manage and use information will determine whether you win or lose. — Bill Gates, 1955-, American businessman 4 likes |
| Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference. — Lou Holtz, 1937-, American football coach 3 likes |
| A team that thinks it’s going to lose is going to lose. — Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American football coach 3 likes |
 | A defeated man does not become a good philosopher. — Jean Dutourd, 1920-2011, French writer 3 likes |
| Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. — Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American football coach 2 likes |
 | Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. |
 | If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat. |
 | Don't be tempted to ask, “Will we win? Will we be defeated?” Just fight! |
 | If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize. |
 | The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things. |
 | If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. |
 | A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost. |
 | The surest way to remain a winner is to win once, and then not play any more. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
| Please don't ask me what the score is. I'm not even sure what the game is. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
| To be sure of winning, invent your own game, and never tell any other player the rules. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
 | Sometimes the best gain is to lose. |
Funny Quotes
 | When you battle with your conscience and lose, you win. — Henry Youngman, 1906-1998, American comedian 7 likes |
 | A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kickboxing. — Emo Philips, 1956-, American comedian 5 likes |
 | You wouldn’t have won if we’d beaten you. — Yogi Berra, 1925-2015, American baseball player & humorist 3 likes |
Proverbs
 | When two play a game, there must be a winner and a loser. 8 likes |
 | You win some, you lose some. 7 likes |
 | If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. 4 likes |
