“Life is a game of chess and you never really know when you are winning or losing.”

“Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!”

Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019) German fashion designer

“All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.”

Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) French painter and sculptor

“It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.”

Grantland Rice (1880–1954) American sportswriter

“Sometimes you have to lose a piece to win a game.”

Rick Riordan book The Throne of Fire

“Winning the Games will make you famous, losing will mean death.”

Suzanne Collins (1962) American television writer and novelist

“You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.”

Lou Holtz (1937) American college football coach, professional football coach, television sports announcer

“When we win, nothing hurts; when we lose, everything hurts. And the only time you hear someone use the phrase its only a game is when that person is losing.”

John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor

“There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game.”

Lionel Messi (1987) Argentine association football player

“You have to start over. That's what they say. But life is not a board game, and losing a loved one is never really "starting over." More like "continuing without.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author