„There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game.“
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— Pierre de Coubertin Founder of modern Olympic Games, pedagogue and historian 1863 - 1937
As quoted in The Olympian (1984) by Peter L. Dixon, p. 210
Contesto: The important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win, but to take part; the important thing in Life is not triumph, but the struggle; the essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well. To spread these principles is to build up a strong and more valiant and, above all, more scrupulous and more generous humanity.
„Life is a game of chess and you never really know when you are winning or losing.“
— Adolfo Bioy Casares Argentine novelist 1914 - 1999
"La vida es una partida de ajedrez y nunca sabe uno a ciencia cierta cuándo está ganando o perdiendo."
Una muñeca rusa, 1991.
„Sometimes you have to lose a piece to win a game.“
— Rick Riordan, libro The Throne of Fire
Origine: The Throne of Fire
„The world is a game of chess; the loser loses and the winner wins.“
— Jamal-al-Din Afghani Political activist and Islamic ideologist 1837 - 1897
As quoted in Jamāḷ al-Dīn al-Afghāni: A Muslim intellectual (1984) by Anwar Moazzam, p. 3
„I hate to lose more than I like to win.“
— Larry Bird basketball player and coach 1956
Douglas S. Looney (May 22, 1998) "Larry Bird : Doer and Teacher", Christian Science Monitor, p. 8.
„Winning the Games will make you famous, losing will mean death.“
— Suzanne Collins American television writer and novelist 1962
„It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.“
— Grantland Rice American sportswriter 1880 - 1954
„It's important that you win games at any level.“
— Phil Brown (footballer) English association football player and manager 1959
27-Feb-2009, Hull Daily Mail
He's getting the hang of this football management lark!
„Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.“
— Tony Blair former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1953
Hansard http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmhansrd/vo051109/debtext/51109-03.htm#51109-03_spmin10, House of Commons, 6th series, vol. 439, col. 302.
9 November 2005, responding to Charles Kennedy in the House of Commons during Prime Minister's Questions. Blair was referring to the likely defeat in Parliament of additional powers to detain terror suspects without charge, which happened later that day.
2000s
„Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!“
— Karl Lagerfeld German fashion designer 1933 - 2019
„The game itself is bigger than the winning.“
— Dejan Stojanovic poet, writer, and businessman 1959
“Game II,” p. 97
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “A Game”
„Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death. The Hunger Games have begun.“
— Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
Tagline on the back cover
Origine: The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games (2008)
„As a matter of fact, I think there are more things important in life than "relationships.“
— David Nicholls, libro Un giorno
Origine: One Day
— Norman Angell British politician 1872 - 1967
The Unseen Assassins https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.216538/page/n49 (1932), p. 48; in later variants, "pity" was misquoted as "piety" in the Naval War College Review, Vol. 10 (1957), p. 27, and some internet citations have compressed "has become, for the European of our age" to read "has become for our age".
„This is the game. We win some, we lose some but I will never shy away from a challenge.“
— Conor McGregor Irish mixed martial artist and boxer 1988
"UFC 196 post-event press conference" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfu31-vEwgo (March 2016), Ultimate Fighting Championship, Zuffa, LLC
2010s, 2016
