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Losing Quotes


"For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in."


"The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself."


"Losing my anonymity in this world I think is something that I find terrifying."


"I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points."


"If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation."


"I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale."


"Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover."



"One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It's a revolving door."


"Jim played - he had a great stretch in the middle of the round there, and Chad made that long putt on 16. Almost got that match. We ended up losing, but we almost won it, too."


"I do like to write but I also like to get and out and play. I am losing track of all the Cooper versions that I do - I have one for Iceland, different one over here."


"While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass."


"I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg."


"Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing."


"What is new in all of this is that the old poles of attraction represented by nation-states, parties, professions, institutions, and historical traditions are losing their attraction."


"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation."


"I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples."


"Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers."


"I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing."


"I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery."


"The problem with losing your anonymity is that you can never go back."


"Like everyone else, I've had moments when I've felt that I've been losing my grip."


"I don't mind losing, but I don't like losing to cheats."


"We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep losing."


"I think the hardest thing is losing weight. That's the hardest thing more than anything else."


"I don't think I'll ever fully get over losing the city council seat. I don't know how that happened. But it was less than 1 percent out of 50,000 votes. I'd put in six or seven years into changing L.A."


"You got to choose between tightening your belt or losing your pants."
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