If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose.
Jesse Jackson

You can't win unless you learn how to lose.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.
Paul Brown

I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hand. If you hold it too tightly you kill it, but if you hold it too loosely, you lose it.
Tommy Lasorda

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.
Tommy Lasorda

Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.
David Suzuki

Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went.
Edith Piaf

It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it's off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think.
Johnny Cash

Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.
Nancy Pelosi

Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.
Benjamin Banneker

What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
Barbara Kingsolver

I always lose the election in the polls, and I always win it on election day.
Benjamin Netanyahu

Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.
Henri Nouwen

We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.
Simone Weil

In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.
Van Morrison

If I start to become a star, I'll lose contact with the normal guys I play best.
Gene Hackman

Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.
Billie Holiday

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.
Henry A. Kissinger

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.
John McEnroe