Lose Quotes

Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows.

I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hand. If you hold it too tightly you kill it, but if you hold it too loosely, you lose it.

They can't have Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling lose a game.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

South Africa gives me a perspective of what's real and what's not real. So I go back to South Africa to both lose myself and gain awareness of myself. Every time I go back, it doesn't take long for me to get caught into a very different thing. A very different sense of myself.

Well, every time I get ready to do a job I want to lose weight.

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

It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made him lose his mind.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

I can't remember a time where I really battled with my body, but I can remember being asked to lose weight and battling with the advice. It hurt me. Especially as my baby fat naturally melted away as I got older.

A lot of times when I've been offered film series and stuff, if they shoot in Los Angeles, I lose interest.

Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

I hate to lose the constituency that I've worked with, but I've got 170,000 people to meet in my new district.

I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.

Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.

I've got nothing left to lose at this point. The work I've done is out there.

My mom always says, 'If you don't believe in something, you'll lose yourself completely.'

Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

I don't think people realize the extent to which TV networks are hurt when they carry public broadcasting. I think the estimate is that they lose a half-million dollars for a half day's programming.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am - it seems I change every day.

Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.

You can be a top, top player for 10, 20 years, then you become a coach, lose two or three games and you're out.

I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.

Healthy bodies make healthy babies so you have nothing to lose!

It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.