For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in. - Ian Thorpe
What is new in all of this is that the old poles of attraction represented by nation-states, parties, professions, institutions, and historical traditions are losing their attraction. - Jean-Francois Lyotard
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. - Tom Hayden
I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery. - Aldous Huxley
I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples. - A. B. Yehoshua
I think the hardest thing is losing weight. That's the hardest thing more than anything else. - Aretha Franklin
Jim played - he had a great stretch in the middle of the round there, and Chad made that long putt on 16. Almost got that match. We ended up losing, but we almost won it, too. - Hal Sutton
Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover. - Marlo Thomas
I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points. - Joe E. Lewis
One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It's a revolving door. - Rosabeth Moss Kanter
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation. - Jean Kerr
The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself. - Raoul Vaneigem
I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg. - Judy Holliday
We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep losing. - Eddie Bernice Johnson
I do like to write but I also like to get and out and play. I am losing track of all the Cooper versions that I do - I have one for Iceland, different one over here. - Michael Owen Bruce