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

““I am playing a game called Futility,” she said. Are you familiar with it?
“How does one win?”
“You don’t. You can only postpone losing. I’ve managed to keep this particular game going for years.””

Michael Swanwick book Stations of the Tide

“Gambling is not a vice, it is an expression of our humanness. We gamble. Some do it at the gaming table, some do not. You play, you win, you play, you lose, you play.”

Jeanette Winterson book The Passion

“Success isn’t determined by how many times you win, but by how you play the week after you lose.”

Pelé (1940–2022) Brazilian association football player

“Through your thoughts, you create your own games, and you win your own games because perhaps you have forgotten how to play the real game. What is the real game? It is the game in which the heart is entertained, the game in which you are entertained. It is the game that you will win.”

Prem Rawat (1957) controversial spiritual leader

“That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

“I play to win, whether during practice or a real game.”

Michael Jordan (1963) American retired professional basketball player and businessman

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

Rick Riordan book The Throne of Fire

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

Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019) German fashion designer

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

Suzanne Collins (1962) American television writer and novelist