“If you can't win, make sure you don't lose.”

— Johan Cruyff

In They said It: Johan Cruyff ( FIFA.com, 25 April 2014 http://www.fifa.com/news/y=2014/m=4/news=they-said-it-johan-cruyff-2323958.html).

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Dutch association football player 1947–2016

Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People

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“You can't win with a losing hand”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Song lyrics, The Essential Bob Dylan (2000), Things Have Changed (recorded 1999)

“fear life but don't die, your alone, everybody's alone, oh Cody Pomeray you can't win you can't lose all is ephemeral all is hurt”

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer

“Here, southlander, you can't quit while you are winning. Better than when I'm losing.”

Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer

Man in Fal Dara and Matrim Cauthon
(15 November 1990)

“Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win.”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

“They had no game plan for losing.... Because when you can't win a game, you need to run the clock, don't let it stop, don't throw passes incomplete... get the game over with, get on the bus and go home.”

Barry Switzer (1937) American football player and coach

Switzer on Oklahoma 79-10 defeat of North Texas in 2007. [Another BCS nightmare may be brewing, http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-dufresne10sep10,0,4827957,full.column, LATimes.com, 2007-09-10, 2007-09-10, Chris, Dufresne]

“‎Mark it down: God loves you with an unearthly love. You can't win it by being winsome. You can't lose it by being a loser. But you can be blind enough to resist it”

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer

“I believe that as a martial artist even if you can't win a fight, you should be able to not be able to die or lose.”

Nate Diaz (1985) American mixed martial artist

As quoted in "Nate Diaz discusses win over Conor McGregor" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg6NkqFPOyY (5 March 2016), UFC on FOX, FOX

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

Suzanne Collins (1962) American television writer and novelist

“Nobody ever told me,
I found out for myself,
You gotta believe in foolish miracles,
it's not how you play the game,
it's if you win or lose,
you can choose, don't confuse, win or lose.”

Ozzy Osbourne (1948) English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter

I Don't Know.
Song lyrics, Blizzard of Ozz (1980)

“If you can't win, make sure you don't lose.”

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