Losing Quotes

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

I don't think I'll ever fully get over losing the city council seat. I don't know how that happened. But it was less than 1 percent out of 50,000 votes. I'd put in six or seven years into changing L.A.

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.

I had to make some drastic choices to avoid losing myself.

But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.

If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul.

I have an internal protectiveness where it's like, if it comes to just me, as frightened as I am of losing someone I love or things going sour or simply being alone, there is a dark place in my brain where I'm like, It could happen and I'm okay, I'm prepared.

There's nothing worse than people who want to make you feel better when you are losing. I just want to smack them.

When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly it was like losing a member of my own family. I think I am still affected by the memory of that loss.

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.

Many people have asked me how I feel about losing my job.

Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.

I got my head bashed in at a demonstration against the Vietnam War. Police were losing control because they were up against a world they really didn't understand.

The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.

The U.S has acquired reservoirs of goodwill around the globe over many years. But it is clear - from polling data and ample anecdotal evidence - that America is losing its allure in much of the world.

What I respect as far as in myself and in others is the spirit of just doing it. For better or worse, it may work and it may not, but I'm going to go for it. Ultimately I probably prefer to be respected for that than whether it works out or not, either winning or losing.

Losing my mum. That was a punch-me moment.

I lost three times in my career. Losing to Holmes I could deal with, because I lost to a true champion.

I'm sure Alex will be having to get the masseurs in to work on those legs. You feel tired when you're losing but when you are winning it gives you that bit of an edge.

I'm kind of like a samurai. They say if you want to be a samurai, you can't be afraid of dying, and as soon as you flinch, you get your head cut off. I'm not afraid of losing this business.

Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same.

I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points.

It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.

I remember going to Bob Preston's dressing room because I was losing a laugh - as you do in a long run. He said, 'Give me the script. That's where you're going off the road.' That's comedy. It's never the line itself; it's in the foundation.

Even the most radical Islamic terrorist would not want to see the revered holy city of Medina go up. It would be like losing the Vatican in Rome.

You can't give up in any game, even if you are losing.

We should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing. But every coach, when they say that, they say it tongue in cheek, 'Don't worry about winning': If you win I'll get you ice cream, but if you lose I'm going to pout in the car.

Nate Robinson has a lot of jumping ability, but I don't see Josh losing.

If the truth be known, we are on the verge of losing an entire generation of our young people, killing and dying in the streets of America.

I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive.