“Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts", probably lost.”

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

Grantland Rice (1880–1954) American sportswriter

“Losing all was winning's cost!
Eternally owned is but what's lost!”

Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906) Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet

“The past has lost, as it always loses; the future has won, as it always wins.”

Lin Carter (1930–1988) American fantasy writer, editor, critic

“You can't win an argument. You can't because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it.”

Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People

“Well, you know, the future is always unmade, and my crystal ball is badly cracked because I’m one of the geniuses that said that "Trump is going to lose by a couple of million votes; he can't win." Well, he lost by a couple of million popular votes, but in the Electoral College, very narrowly, he was able to win.”

Mike Murphy (political consultant) (1962) American political consultant

“I do not think who will win or lose, neither will win or lose, they will win and lose. Everybody will lose.”

Dilma Rousseff (1947) 36th President of Brazil

“There are four things that make a man fight as you just did," the duke explained to Rumbold. "Love, despair, anger, or insanity."

Erik counted them off on his fingers. "Everything to lose, nothing to lose, someone's taken it, or you've lost it.”

Alethea Kontis (1976) American writer

“Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?”

Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) French poet

“Sometimes you have to lose to win”

Gregory David Roberts (1952) Australian writer and bank robber