“some men know from birth that they are expendable… they fought to won. If you did not win, you did not run either”

Source: Canada

“Is that so? Really?” cried Steen. “Well, I would run out of a burning building even if I had not set the fire myself.”
Source: Empire novels (1950–1952), The Currents of Space (1952), Chapter 16 “The Accused” (p. 163)

Account of speech to a group, in Had enough?: A handbook for fighting back (2003), p. 2 http://books.google.com/books?id=gH4bMmu4CA4C

“No,” said the old man, deep under. “I don’t remember anyone winning anywhere any time. War’s never a winning thing, Charlie. You just lose all the time, and the one who loses last asks for terms. All I remember is a lot of losing and sadness and nothing good but the end of it. The end of it, Charles, that was a winning all to itself, having nothing to do with guns.
The Time Machine (1955)
R Is for Rocket (1962)

Referring here to the controversial US presidential election of 2000
Quotes, DNC Address (2004)
Context: I'm going to be candid with you. I had hoped to be back here this week under different circumstances, running for re-election. But you know the old saying: you win some, you lose some. And then there's that little-known third category.
But I didn't come here tonight to talk about the past. After all, I don't want you to think that I lie awake at night counting and recounting sheep. I prefer to focus on the future, because I know from my own experience that America's a land of opportunity, where every little boy and girl has a chance to grow up and win the popular vote.

Stefan Aust, Terrorism in Germany: The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon http://www.ghi-dc.org/files/publications/bulletin/bu043/45.pdf

Source: November