- Nov 07, 2020
Lose Quotes
On defeat, restraint, and what slips away.
This set covers losing in several senses: standing by a cause even in defeat, losing enjoyment by over-thinking something, and losing composure under pressure. The tension between winning and losing shows up again in our Game quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
While we are deploying troops in their thousands, we lose the chance to build up their basic skills.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
My high school coach was a big Clemson fan, and I told him, 'As long as I'm the starting quarterback here, I'm not going to lose to South Carolina.'
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made a vow that I wouldn't be tempted by what could happen to me if I went to Europe. I thought, 'You could be absorbed in it - it's so seductive, you might lose your own search for identity.' Then, when I did finally go to Europe, I was able to resist it because I had established my own identity.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like a lot of people have said, it's not a bad loss to lose to Mark Hunt, so it's really like a learning lesson.
- Relax
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never lose that terror of 'this is my last job, I'll never work again.' You can never relax and rely on whatever reputation you've built.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music was everything. But what the digital revolution has done, with streaming services and downloads, is take the value out of music. When things lose value they lose their meaning.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first started out acting, I didn't have anything to lose. I had another career. If I fell on my face, I could say, 'I'll see ya,' and go back to working.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are fed up with the politics where candidates just rip each other apart and then the voters lose in the end because no one really knows what anybody stands for.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to lose myself in football and that's what a coach has to do to be successful.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
But when you have to deal with notes, and to be able to make a full definition of what a sound is - if you are not around that environment, then you'll find you lose that feel, that momentum, you lose all that.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always had long hair. When you lose it, you realise just how important it is to your identity.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the only person who will ever lose in a fight and still end up making a million dollars is Conor McGregor - that's just because of how his contract is structured or whatever.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
They'll always find somebody for me to fight. Whether I win or lose, they'll find somebody to fight, and I'll compete. I'll make money, and I'll pay my bills.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020