The purpose behind playing a game like chess is not to win or lose, but rather to learn by doing.
Jim Genovese
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Life, is a chess game you win or loose, but just keep playing.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice on...
JOHN RHYS-DAVIES Instead of treating it like another game, they treated it like a championship. Instead of playing to...
HERMAN GOODEN No one wants to win or lose a game like that, but I'll take it.
JACK KOKINDA It's disappointing to lose a game like that, but I'd rather lose by one point than not be in the gam...
ART BRANDON It's another big game. It's the Peach Bowl. It's not a national championship or BCS game, but we don...
KELLY JENNINGS To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Now we are going in there expecting to win. We are not just going out there playing not to lose. We ...
ASHLEY HAYNES Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.
CHUCK NOLL Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.
DAVID HOCKNEY For a while there in the second half, we played not to lose instead of playing to win. We had a chan...
JOHN CALIPARI It wasn't a pretty game, but that makes no difference at this point. Whether you win by one or 21, t...
DANIEL JENKINS You can't say 'What if' on that last play. It's a whole game. It's unfortunate it came down to the l...
BRITTANY WILKINS When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
TOM LANDRY To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD Win or lose, do it fairly.
KNUTE ROCKNE (Coach Rod Fisher) told us that we were playing not to lose and that we were not playing to win. We ...
ERICA SIMPSON At the end it felt like we played not to lose instead of playing to win.
MIKE DAVIS Win or lose, playing at all is winning.
WOLFGANG NORDING PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA I felt like we played a good game for the most part. But near the end, we played not to lose, instea...
JOHN GAY Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM He just hit one of those shots. You wish when you hit a shot like that you win a game rather than lo...
BOB THOMASON You can’t win unless you try to win, but you can lose by trying not to lose.
JACK CAMPBELL Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI It doesn't matter if you win or lose; what matters is if you learn from it or not.
MOHITH AGADI Sometimes we must win, or we must lose, but not like this, we must fight. In this match, nobody was ...
BUTEKA RANKO He played better the entire game, but it's not bad to lose because you learn a lot.
ANDRES MARTINEZ You are going to win and lose games in special teams. The kicking game sets the tone for the entire ...
MARC JONES It gets frustrating sometimes, but every game we win or lose, we always improve and learn from our m...
BRIAN JEROLOMAN It's easy to hide behind the manager's door, but he shows his face in here [the clubhouse], win or l...
TODD PRATT Kids work on things like dribbling between their legs and behind their backs rather than a 15-foot j...
DAVID MCGREAL Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run away when you...
NANCY KERRIGAN In this game, by trying to win; you automatically lose.
RUTH ROSS People gave us a purpose. Something to do all day, every day. At the end, I suppose, you spend a lot...
C. ROBERT CARGILL I have always thought you could take the measure of a man by his sports manners - that is to say, th...
GRAYDON CARTER Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run away when you...
NANCY KERRIGAN We're learning how to win by doing the little things. The season is a roller coaster ride, and the k...
DAVE BASEGGIO It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.
GRANTLAND RICE It's a challenging time for the kids. We really need a win to keep our heads above water. It's not t...
KRAIG CLIFTON It's definitely a great feeling to win the game and to win in the shootout. You get the extra one po...
DOMINIK HASEK Life is like a game of chess, if your not first your last.
LUIZI MABU To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy
"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS I admire him for his work, but I know he's going to lose. I guarantee he's not going to win. But it'...
ANGEL GONZALEZ It was just a great baseball game. Win or lose, obviously you don't want to lose, but you could unde...
CHRIS BATES Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do?
TERRY PRATCHETT Every game is equal in rate to each other. If you lose to Kent State or Carolina, you negate that yo...
ROBIN PETRINI Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it b...
SAMUEL BUTLER We used to go into games not to lose, instead of playing to win. Now, we're like, let's beat this te...
CHERLANDA FRANKLIN We were playing not lose instead of playing to win. When you play not to lose, then your offense is ...
GLORY SLATER Of course, I have the competitive spirit inside of me, where I want to win every game. But you reali...
AMANDA WILLIAMS The outcome may not have been the best, but our girls tend to think it's better to lose by 30, rathe...
BRUCE MARTHALLER I'd rather win two or three, lose one, win two or three more. I'm a great believer in things evening...
WALT ALSTON Sometimes when girls expect to lose, then they lose. When you have to teach them the game of basketb...
AVERY SWARN We think this is truly a body blow, not only to the (Genovese family) membership, but the leadership...
MARK MERSHON I know it's not a one man team win or lose.
BRETT FAVRE like a three-dimensional chess game. . . . The key is that the messages not be too far apart.
LARRY GERSTON I'm playing checkers while they're playing chess
They make the big moves that make me a little ...
BILLY JOE SHAVER You hate to lose a game that way, but if not, we might have been playing here all night.
GREG BOWERS Our character isn’t defined by the battles we win or lose, but by the battles we dare to fight.
ROBERT BEATTY Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we wi...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.
DARRIN WEINBERG I think we were playing scared to lose. It was not our effort, but that we were worried to fall behi...
KYLE BRODZIAK Our coach told us we'd rather get a chance to play them than lose tonight's game and not know what i...
HANNAH REIFF A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of ch...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
IMELDA MARCOS I think whichever team executes the best on both ends of the floor and limits their turnovers will p...
LORI CRUNK A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth
SOTONYE ANGA We didn't execute they way we had been preparing to. Basketball is about effort and execution. The e...
CRAIG PIPPEN The sun is going to shine whether we win or lose, but we're out here to win.
DARREN BURNS I have to dictate. My game is attack, you know. I had to do the same thing when I had match point. I...
SVETLANA KUZNETSOVA This is not an election. It would have been wiser for Hosni Mubarak to win by a small margin or even...
AYMAN NOUR Loyalty is still the same,
Whether it win or lose the game;
True as a dial to the sun,
Alth...
SAMUEL BUTLER (POET) I think we now come to the park expecting to win instead of playing not to lose.
ERIC DAVIS I'm the Pawn of chess game, whose aim is not to protect the King only but to become the Conqueror.
SAMAR SUDHA Just as with swimming or riding a bike, you can't really learn how to fall in love from reading a bo...
NICHOLAS BOOTHMAN It is not by knowing it, but by doing it that you learn.
CARL HAMMERSCHLAG It is not by knowing it, but by doing it that you learn.
CARL A. HAMMERSCHLAG Be a leader who is driven by purpose but not by position or power.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Rather than reacting to every obstacle or dashed expectation, incorporate the event into your overal...
ALISA MELEKHINA But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I&...
DOROTHY DUNNETT To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY You can't win unless you learn how to lose.
KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR We can't keep winning one game in a three-game series. We have to try to win the series or sweep it ...
JOSE VIDRO I'd rather win two or three, lose one, win two or three more. I'm a great believer in things...
WALT ALSTON In a close game, you're going to have to win or lose at the line. We got it done enough.
LANCE WATSON Teams learn how to win when they're not playing well and this team did that against Oklahoma. It's a...
BILL SELF It was hard to say whether it was a foul or not, but the fact we were even there at the end despite ...
DAVE ZEYEN We always want to win, but coming back the way we did, against a top team like (St. Joseph's Academy...
GENE BRIGGS Life is like a game of chess.
To win you have to make a move.
Knowing which move to make c...
ALLAN RUFUS They're doing something right to win by 16 points. I know we're playing better.
ROBERT BRISTOW The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win.Everyone wants to win but n...
BOBBY KNIGHT We wanted to win real bad. But a game like this comes down to who makes the first mistake, and we ma...
DARIUS BEATY 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON Ask 10 kids what they would rather do, dunk in a game or make a free throw to win a game. I guarante...
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