“Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win.”
Source: Time Enough for Love
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“Don't let things you can't do stop you from doing things you can.”
Variant: You can't outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little side bets about the outcome of life. Either you wade in, risk everything you have to play the game or you don't play at all. And if you can't play, you can't win.
Source: Paradise
“If you can't win, make sure you don't lose.”
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).
“Mother is the best bet and don't let Satan draw you too fast.”
From police transcripts of incoherent deathbed confession
“When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't…”
Source: Candy
“You can't just avoid the game by saying you don't want to play.”
Source: The Final Empire
“You can't win, you can't break even, and you can't get out of the fucking game.”
Interview with Gary K. Wolfe (28 July 1987), quoted in Harlan Ellison : The Edge of Forever (2002), by Ellen Weil and Gary K. Wolfe
Borrowing a common scientific joke expressing the laws of thermodynamics.