A Quote by Plautus

There are games in which it is better to lose than win. — © Plautus
There are games in which it is better to lose than win.

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You can lose games, but when you look back on the games you lose, you must be, 'Okay, we lost, but we did everything to win it.'
We don't sell wins or losses. The one thing you can't control in sports is which games you are going to win or which games you are going to lose. But what I could control was the experience the fans have.
You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player.
When you lose games, you analyse them more than when you win.
If you never concede a goal, you're going to win more games than you lose.
It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
You don't win or lose the games bcoz of 11 you select. You win or lose with what those 11 do on the field.
The real things to know is that folks will stand to lose more than they will to win. That?s the most important percentage there is. I mean, if they lose, they?re willin? to lose everything. If they win, they?re usually satisfied to win enough to pay for dinner and a show. The best gamblers know that.
I gotta win games. Because if we lose games, and I score a lot, they going to say I'm scorin' too much.
I live in the moment. I try to win as many games as I can in any given year. That's what I've always tried to do. But I don't dwell on the past games. That doesn't help you win games now. If that helped win games now, I'd dwell on them.
I prefer to win a game and lose other 2 rather than draw 3 games. Both cases you get 3 points.
I think sometimes, when you're on top and all you do is win, win, win, win, win, you get lazy and lose focus. When you lose it opens your eyes and you get serious. There is always a time when it is good to lose, at the right time for you.
Sometimes when you win, you really lose. And sometimes when you lose, you really win. And sometimes when you win or lose, you actually tie. And sometimes when you tie, you actually win or lose. Winning or losing is all one organic mechanism, from which one extracts what one needs.
The older you get, the more you start to realize that you can't win an argument in a relationship. You can't win a fight with your woman. Because if you lose, you lose. And if you win, you lose.
Life is like the baseball season, where even the best team loses at least a third of its games, and even the worst team has its days of brilliance. The goal is not to win every game but to win more than you lose, and if you do that often enough, in the end you may find you have won it all.
If you win the turnover battle and the explosive play battle in the same game, you win it 98 percent of the time. Now, can you win it with only winning one and losing one? Sure, but if you lose both of 'em, you only win 2 percent of the games where that occurrence happens.
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