Losing A Game Quotes

There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game.

Goalies almost never get credit for winning a game, but they always get blamed for losing a game.

Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.

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?

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.

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.

Lack of patience is probably the most common reason for losing a game, or drawing games that should have been won.

Losing a game is not a big deal, except you've got to make sure that you move on and get the next one.

Losing doesn't eat at me the way it used to. I just get ready for the next play, the next game, the next season.

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

You're never a loser until you quit trying.

When Marx got into a difficult position he would get angry and losing a game would cause him to fly into a rage.

You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

We play a sport. It's a game. At the end of the day, that's all it is, is a game. It doesn't make you any better or any worse than anybody else. So by winning a game, you're no better. By losing a game, you're no worse. I think by keeping that mentality, it really keeps things in perspective for me to treat everybody the same.

We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.

Nobody even mentioned the word losing, losing games. We know we've been a losing franchise. He just wanted to say something back like he's always running his mouth. That's what he does. He runs his mouth all the time. Nobody was blaming him for anything. For him to come back at me was a personal attack. I feel that if there is anything that he is unsure about, tell him I would be more than happy to say it in his face, or any kind of other way, that would make him understand.

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.

The biggest surprise has been making the adjustment after losing a game. In the NBA you could lose tonight and you have to put that game behind you because you have another game the next night.

What is the object of playing a gambit opening?... To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing a game

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

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.

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.