#loses

I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault. ↗

— Branch Rickey

#anything #because #children #civil #closest

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat. ↗

— Pat Riley

#complacency #constantly #defeat #explain #explanations

Sometimes a 3-1 favorite loses. That's why they call it gambling, and that's why they keep flipping over the cards. ↗

— Richard Roeper

#cards #favorite #flipping #gambling #keep

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even. ↗

— Will Rogers

#been #being #closest #country #even

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation. ↗

— Will Rogers

#closes #i #i can #investigation #opens

A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins, and a winner doesn't talk about what he'll do if he wins, but knows what he'll do if he loses. ↗

— Eric Berne

#know #knows #loser #loses #talk

No one has a closest friend in Hollywood. ↗

— Sheilah Graham

#closest friend #friend #hollywood

Satire is what closes on Saturday night. ↗

— George S. Kaufman

#night #satire #saturday #saturday night

If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score? ↗

— Vince Lombardi

#loses #matter #score #then #who

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#always #any #complain #determine #doing