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I've always tried to tell myself that the work itself is the thing, that win, lose, or draw, the work is really what counts.
Sep 29, 2025
Partnership is the way. Dictatorial win-lose is so old-school.
I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I love to play.
Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.
I hate to lose more than I love to win.
All my life my priority was football, football, football. I was just fully focused on that and when my kids were born that focus changed gradually. I had something in my life that changed my perspective. You experience something that is more important than win, lose or draw.
What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.
There's no easy quick way out, we're gonna have to live through our whole lives, win, lose, or draw.
It's the only way I think I'm ever going to walk away from the game, is to go ahead and say I'm going to, and then I've got to. There's no turning back now - win, lose or draw.
When one side benefits more than the other, that's a win-lose situation. To the winner it might look like success for a while, but in the long run, it breeds resentment and distrust.
Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.
Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!
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.
Win, lose or draw, you're all my cousins and I love you.
When conflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.
My children are the most important thing in my life.
The most important thing in my life is Christ.
A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.
Win, lose, or tie, you're gonna play like champions!
A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.
winning is not everything it is the only thing
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.
Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference.
The bad thing about the Bushwhackers is that win, lose, or draw, you gotta have everything you got on fumigated.
The best advice I have is keep writing, keep practicing, keep winning, losing and understanding the difference. Never stop learning, never stop pushing yourself. Then find yourself a team you can work well with and help make awesome things happen.
I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
To do the right thing at the right season is a great art.
We lost because we told ourselves we lost.
When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.
You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.
Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.
Winning means everything...You show me a good loser and I'll show a loser.
If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?
Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
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.
Only the heart knows the correct answer. Most people think the heart is mushy and sentimental. But it's not. The heart is intuitive; it's holistic, it's contextual, it's relational. It doesn't have a win-lose orientation. It taps into the cosmic computer - the field of pure potentiality, pure knowledge, and infinite organizing power - and takes everything into account. At times it may not even seem rational, but the heart has a computing ability that is far more accurate and far more precise than anything within the limits of rational thought.
One of the common traits of outstanding performers-coaches, athletes, managers, sales representatives, executives, and others who face a daily up/down, win/lose accounting system-is that a rejection, that is, defeat, is quickly forgotten, replaced eagerly by pursuit of a new order, client, or opponent.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
People with a scarcity mentality tend to see everything in terms of win-lose. There is only so much; and if someone else has it, that means there will be less for me. The more principle-centered we become, the more we develop an abundance mentality, the more we are genuinely happy for the successes, well-being, achievements, recognition, and good fortune of other people. We believe their success adds to...rather than detracts from...our lives.
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.
My family's the most important thing in my life.