Some people get into this business and they're so afraid to lose anything. They try to protect their position like clinging to a beachhead. These actors end up making really safe choices. I never wanted to go that route. If I go down, I'm going down swinging.
Matt Damon

In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.
Kofi Annan

Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.
Dan Gable

By use you possess gain; by disuse you decline and lose.
Edwin Louis Cole

I hope that memory is valued - that we do not lose memory.
Studs Terkel

I prefer to play and lose rather than win, because I know in advance I'm going to win.
Eric Cantona

You can lose in cinema too if you don't put on a good performance.
Eric Cantona

You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There's no faking that kind of emotion. You can't invent the feeling. It's got to be natural, real.
Dan Marino

It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.
Jackson Pollock

If I lose show business - I'll really be an orphan!
Red Buttons

This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.
Siobhan Fahey

They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.
Chinua Achebe

Metaphysical thinking will always no doubt be a strong element in her mentality, and it is to be hoped that she will never lose her great, her sovereign powers in that direction.
Sri Aurobindo

He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.
Mario Puzo

I go out on the road for much longer than I probably should and lose more of myself than I should.
Sarah McLachlan

When you lose a lover it's like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in time.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.
Andre Agassi

When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.
James Brown

Going from Flip to Kev, obviously you don't want to see someone ever lose their job. For me it's probably a little more difficult, because other than Bill Blair, Flip is all I knew.
Kevin Garnett

I don't want to lose my name because that's how I know myself. There is a legacy here.
Moon Unit Zappa