Top 1200 Losing Quotes & Sayings

I hate losing more than anything. I think losing is something that drives me.

I hear you're losing weight again, Mary Jane. Do you ever wonder who you're losing it for?

These communities that are losing local news coverage are losing something deeper. They're losing a connection to American democracy. And those connections must be rebuilt. We need more of a bottom-up sense of what it means to produce news.

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

Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.

Losing a son, losing a daughter, a brother, a sister, losing a close friend - it can go beyond grief to isolation and feeling despair.

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

There is no accountability in the public school system - except for coaches. You know what happens to a losing coach. You fire him. A losing teacher can go on losing for 30 years and then go to glory.

I don't mind losing. Losing is like breathing to me.

You can't play sports without losing sometimes and, in losing, you learn something about grace and how to act under pressure.

The Democrats are losing. And look, folks, I don't mean to beat a dead horse here. I'm not doing anything other than pointing out what's actually factually happening. I'm not drawing any inferences from it. The Democrats are actually losing as themselves. They are losing elections if they are honest about what they want to do. It doesn't surprise me at all that Jon Ossoff would be running around.

I don't want to go out there and show up. I hate losing. Everybody hates losing. But I hate losing.

Losing a fantasy is much harder than losing a reality.

I played soccer until I was like 10 or 11, maybe 12. I had fun with it, but it was a team sport, and I hated losing, and we kept losing, so I quit.

If by losing the spirit of prayer, you mean losing the heavenly sensations of deep devotion, I am afraid that does not matter a scrap.

We're losing our freedom of speech. We are losing freedom of religion. We are losing freedom of the press.

We're losing our companies; we're losing jobs; they devalue us out of business - China and these other countries.

Losing close relatives doesnt get any easier, really, but losing your parents is the big deal.

A name is precious; it carries inside it a language, a history, a set of traditions, a particular way of looking at the world. Losing it meant losing my ties to all those things too.

You don't give out trophies for losing. Trophies for sucking. That's a communist idea. You don't get a trophy for losing. You get a piece of pizza and you shut up. Trophies for losing? What the hell happened to us?

Losing has to be awful. You can never get used to losing. That's one of the biggest downfalls to a lot of teams.

To be a successful business owner and investor, you have to be emotionally neutral to winning and losing. Winning and losing are just part of the game.

Anytime you’re gonna grow, you’re gonna lose something. You’re losing what you’re hanging onto to keep safe. You’re losing habits that you’re comfortable with, you’re losing familiarity.

We're constantly losing - we're losing time, we're losing ourselves. I don't feel for the things I lost.

The major problem for America is we're losing two wars. We're losing in Afghanistan, we're losing in Iraq. And there seems very little likelihood that we're going to increase the number of troops we have in either place to the point that we can prevail.

What I worry about is that people are losing confidence, losing energy, losing enthusiasm, and there's a real opportunity to get them into work.

Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.

I don't think about losing or worry about losing. I'm not afraid to let it go and I don't care if you beat me. If you do, that means you were the better man, but only elite fighters can beat me. There can't be shame in losing because you are up against great competition and there's always that chance.

That was my pride and joy - that I made it through all those years of minor hockey without losing any of my teeth; then, I ended up losing them in a car accident in New York when I was riding in a taxi. So, I end up losing my teeth, but not in the glamorous fashion I envisioned.

Frankenweenie is also about mortality, but at a very different stage. It's losing a parent versus losing a dog. I don't run away from the tears of that, which I think is what makes it feel universal.

I'm not talking about losing [agricultural] diversity in the same way that you lose your car keys. I'm talking about losing it in the same way that we lost the dinosaurs: actually losing it, never to be seen again.

Losing honour or losing everything, it is all the same thing in the realm of the good people.

It may sound simple, but both winning and losing can become a mind-set, and I won't accept losing - ever.

Sometimes it feels like you're losing, but even when you're losing, you're getting something.

A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.

As a species, we're not only wired to choose today over tomorrow, but we hate to feel like we're losing out on something. The bottom line is, if we feel like we're losing something we avoid it, we won't do it. That's why so many people don't save and invest. Saving sounds like you're giving something up, you're losing something today. But you're not.

There was a culture that came out of the self-esteem movement which was don't anybody keep track of the goals. The kids keep track, but nobody keep track of the goals because we don't want the kids to have the experience of losing. And in depriving them losing, thinking it scarred them to lose, we made losing so taboo, so unspeakable, that we instead made losing more scary to kids, not less scary.

Losing sucks but I look at more what I gained as an individual, as an athlete..sometimes in losing you learn a lot.

I understand when you have great players on losing teams who are tired of losing, struggling in the playoffs every year. You're the lone star. I've been in that position.

No one could save me from the grief of losing my child or losing my first marriage. I had to do that on my own.

I think what I have learned is you can't avoid losing. You're going to strike out a million times. The whole point is not to dodge losing - it's to learn how to lose well.

Nuclear is the single greatest threat. Just to go down the list, we defend Japan, we defend Germany, we defend South Korea, we defend Saudi Arabia, we defend countries. They do not pay us. But they should be paying us, because we are providing tremendous service and we're losing a fortune. That's why we're losing - we're losing - we lose on everything. I say, who makes these - we lose on everything.

Losing the PR battles, particularly about healthcare, translated into losing his Democratic majorities in Congress, beginning with a Republican landslide in the midterm election of 2010.

Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.

Losing sucks. Nobody wants to be known for losing; you can't even have fun when you're losing.

When you're losing, and you're losing again, and you're losing 3... 4... 5 games in a row, it can be frustrating.

Losing a position is aggravating, whereas losing your nerve is devastating.

But death does not stand at the end of life, it is all through it. It is the fear of losing, the knowledge of losing that makes love tender.

For many women, becoming a widow does not just mean the heartache of losing a husband, but often losing everything else as well.

The idea of losing the three at Hayward Field and the idea of losing my specialty to someone who wasn't running his specialty. Mostly, the idea of losing in front of my people. They haven't forgotten about me.

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

I always give my all and I don't like losing. In fact, I hate losing.

It's the worst feeling in the world - losing, and losing in a final on the big stage is even worse.

Pay more attention to losing inches than losing pounds.

I can tell you that when I travel the state, when I talk to people, they are really struggling, in a very real way. They're losing their jobs, they're losing their homes, they're dealing with financial challenges.

There comes that phase in life when, tired of losing, you decide to stop losing, then continue losing. Then you decide to really stop losing, and continue losing. The losing goes on and on so long you begin to watch with curiosity, wondering how low you can go.

There’s a difference between losing something you knew you had and losing something you discovered you had. One is a disappointment. The other feels like losing a piece of yourself.

When you're winning, you're a hero. When you're losing, you're a bum... I'm as bad as the fans, believe me. If they only knew how I hate losing and what we go through to try to win.

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

We have so many distractions. We're losing the family unit. We're losing the one-on-one. We're becoming extremely narcissistic. And we have to be careful about that. There's a lot to deal with out there.