The Olympics is a once-in-a-lifetime thing. I was lucky enough to go twice, but most people only get one chance. And in judo you can train your whole life and it'll come down to a split second: You can lose everything or win anything. Ronda Rousey
The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance. Venus Williams
The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.Karl Heinrich Marx
There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain. Casey Stengel
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.William Shakespeare
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. Oscar Wilde
We all get stuck. We all lose ourselves a little bit in a fantasy or in our jobs and forget how we feel about other things. It's really important to check yourself, to spend some time alone. Amanda Seyfried
We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread. Paul Auster
We play fair and we play hard. If we win the game we win, if we lose the game, we lose. Jason Williams
We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets. Benjamin Disraeli
We should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing. But every coach, when they say that, they say it tongue in cheek, 'Don't worry about winning': If you win I'll get you ice cream, but if you lose I'm going to pout in the car. Bode Miller
What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope. Mahatma Gandhi
What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose. Andre Agassi
What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose. Willa Cather
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. Helen keller
When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game. Michael Jordan