You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.
Losing a game is not a tragedy after experiencing border raids and having to eat beetles because you are out of rations.
It's not the loss of life that makes the death bitter -- it's the obituaries.
I like L.A., but it's just too many people in the same business everywhere you go. You lose perspective.
You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.
Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.
Everybody says that it takes a loss to lose and I think it did take a loss for us to lose in a sense. But overall, when we win games here at Duke, and we don't play well, we might as well have lost the game.
I haven't lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.
If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come.
Every minute hundreds of thousands of people die all over the world … so the deaths of tens of thousands of human beings, even if they are our own compatriots, represent really very little.
Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses.
It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
The revolution taught me not to be consoled by other people's miseries, not to feel thankful because so many others had suffered more. Pain and loss, like love and joy, are unique and personal; they cannot be modified by comparison to others.
If I went out there and felt the best I ever felt and fought the best I've ever fought and lost, I would have to reconsider things and think differently. I would have a different outlook on my career.
I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don't care.
There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death. If they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I'm not that way, and it keeps me steady.
Illness transforms the things you most fear into the things you crave and would hold onto if you could.
No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.
