“Never argue when you're winning.”
Laurell K. Hamilton book Cerulean Sins
Variant: Never interrupt when you're winning.
Source: Cerulean Sins
“Never argue when you're winning.”
Laurell K. Hamilton book Cerulean Sins
Variant: Never interrupt when you're winning.
Source: Cerulean Sins
Lou Holtz (1937) American college football coach, professional football coach, television sports announcer
“Life is a game of chess and you never really know when you are winning or losing.”
Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914–1999) Argentine novelist
"La vida es una partida de ajedrez y nunca sabe uno a ciencia cierta cuándo está ganando o perdiendo."
Una muñeca rusa, 1991.
Brett Favre (1969) former American football quarterback
[Judy, Batista, http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C03E7D91338F93AA15752C0A9629C8B63&n=Top/News/Sports/Pro%20Football/National%20Football%20League/Green%20Bay%20Packers, PRO FOOTBALL: NOTEBOOK; Favre Knows That Time Is Quickly Running Out, The New York Times, January 29, 2004, 2007-11-12]
“Never stay to think about how to win the game, start playing.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: (it) Non restare mai a pensare a come vincere la partita, inizia a giocare.
Source: prevale.net
“Yes, my biggest game, but not my best game. My best game is when I drive in the winning run.”
Roberto Clemente (1934–1972) Puerto Rican baseball player
Bemoaning his wasted 3-home run/7-RBI performance of May 15, 1967; as quoted in “Biggest Game Wasted: Roberto Collects 3 HRs, 7 RBIs As Bucs Lose, 8-7” by Les Biederman, in The Pittsburgh Press (Tuesday, May 16, 1967), p. 34
Baseball-related, <big><big>1960s</big></big>, <big>1967</big>
“Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!”
Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019) German fashion designer
Ted Lindsay (1925–2019) Canadian ice hockey player
Quoted in Kevin Shea, "One on One with Ted Lindsay," http://www.legendsofhockey.net/html/spot_oneononep196607.htm Legends of Hockey.net (2004-11-09).