Losing Quotations | Page 6

One thing they say about coaching is that losing is your best teaching tool. I've learned through a couple of tough losses. Losing has kind of been a blessing for me.

My concern is that we're placing him in this institutional conflict of interest, and that the library could end up losing in the end.

My concern is, do they have the big picture right? They're moving in the right direction. Obviously, they're in a perilous situation. They continue losing market share. Their costs are increasing. You can't sustain that.

My ballpark estimate is that it would be a $2.4 million to $3 million expense to hold the whole team together. Even if a carrier were able to hold their expenses to half that amount, we're talking about all of these bidders losing at least $1.2 million. And that doesn't include not making their revenue projections.

My heart started pounding and the adrenalin was pumping. I did the math and I worked out if we get this there is no way we are losing now.

My guys are able to overcome losing a tough game. It was a tough situation last night but they're remarkably mature and ready to move forward.

My guess is that they're losing at the 21-24 battle . . . and decided to reinvest their money where their core consumer is, and where all the other brands fall off in attending to this crowd.

Maybe they went on more emotion losing him and trying to get a win for him. We just didn't play well. It was a stinker.

Maybe the losing government is doing some kind of engineering.

No one will pick up where Stern has left off, ... Howard is a one-of-a-kind broadcasting phenomenon who has not just a brilliant intellect and personality but an enormously well-honed set of radio skills and natural talent. Infinity faces a major challenge losing him, and Sirius will be the beneficiary of tremendous buzz.

Now we are both in this, both losing our mothers,

Now, they're making about 70 cents a pound, and most are pleased with that. They're not making a lot of money now, but they're making enough to make a comfortable living and not worry about losing the farm.

Now that the ranks of the alternative low-cost or free ISPs are being rapidly thinned, the remaining service providers run less risk of losing customers.

Newspaper companies are losing advertisers, readers, market value, and, in some cases, their sense of mission at a pace that would have been barely imaginable just four years ago.

New Haven is becoming less and less affordable to live in, and although the city is cleaning up neighborhoods, we are losing a portion of the community in the process,

Obviously, we are never going to be satisfied with a losing quarter but quite frankly we remain upbeat. The loss itself was a result of a $270,000 increase in allowance for doubtful accounts receivable and an unrealized hedging loss -- marked -- to market at the end of the quarter. As of August 31, 2005 the majority of this unrealized loss has been reversed out. However, the coffee market continues to remain extremely volatile. Beyond these two one time events, the quarter was overall a positive considering prices declined by over 20% in roughly a 30 day period.

Obviously they don't take losing at home very well, because it seems like every time we beat them there, they come back and beat us here. It's like a boxing match. You get a guy once and you know he's going to come back stronger and harder.

Obviously I'm on the outside looking in at this situation, but what I think is the past is really starting to haunt them. They've had so many losing seasons, very few players want to try out for the team. From what I understand, they barely got enough players in this season to hold a formal training camp.

Obviously, the people there are going through a variety of emotions right now. Quite frankly, through no fault of their own, they are losing their positions.

Obviously, losing like we did and being with the same guys for four years and then going to a different level, it's kind of sad and kind of exciting at the same time. It all comes real quick, the end of the season and then the beginning of a new one.

Obviously, losing Kareem was a big deal. But Adrian will do well where he's at. We're confident A.J. will come in and take over that job.

Obviously, losing guys like that, that's a pretty good chunk. But I think we're right there.

Obviously, business decisions are made in this league. Losing the players we lost the last few years, I'm not going to tell you it didn't hurt because it did. It hurt to see you build something with someone and they're gone, not by their own will but by the will and the decisions made by others.

Nobody's losing their job. Their jobs are just being moved around a little bit.

Nobody's happy about losing or how we lost it. When good players are put in position to make plays, they've got to make them. The bottom line is we simply have to get better.

Nobody has to ever suffer someone losing their kids to an event like this.

Right now, a number of members are betting on the public losing interest and getting away without any new reforms.

People use that as a measuring stick of how this guy handles adversity, ... It wasn't losing a couple games in a row. It was a lot larger than that. I think he did a good job. It was pretty awesome how he brought everybody with him.

Philosophies such as Marxism-Leninism and Communism are entirely losing their attractiveness. With the gunshots in 1989, they have collapsed like soap bubbles. Being in this situation, the Chinese Communist Party is soliciting new concepts to unify the Chinese society. Nationalism or patriotism seems operable to fill the vacuum left by Marxism-Leninism and Mao's Communism.

People won't remember the small little losing streak that we had. They wouldn't think that the game we had against Virginia Tech was a fluke. I think it would put an exclamation point on the whole season and be a good way to start the new one.

Next year will be even lower. I think the figures are in free fall. We are losing a generation of linguists.

Nobody here is thinking about the past and losing again. Everybody is very positive. We've got to stick together here to be more successful in Game Two and get rid of that so people will stop talking about it and bringing it up.

NBC is losing between $2 (million) and $3 million each time they air The Book of Daniel. With those kinds of losses, NBC may decide to cancel the show.

On the other hand, losing her would be costly. She's been very good for the company before all this began. She could be vital to rebuilding the brand.

On number two you really felt for him. It helped us (Mize and Ben Crane) because he's not losing it out there. He'd be a really good poker player because you can't tell how he's doing.

One of the kids put it best. Scouts aren't going to watch losing teams play.

One of the nice things about tissue is we are not losing market share. We are No. 1 in our industry and we intend to stay there.

I was going to pitch the first, fourth and seventh games. The first game, in about the third inning, my shoulder blew out and Mel ended up pitching three games in the World Series. He pitched great, but we lost in seven games. On the way back to New York after losing the seventh game, Yogi said to me, ?How did you like pitching and coaching?' I said, ?Fine.' He said, ?Would you do it again next year?' I said, ?Yeah.' The next day, Yogi was fired.

I was fortunate enough to be on the winning team once, and I was fortunate, too, to be on the losing team once,

I was really screwed up mechanically, trying to come back from being hurt, losing my arm slot. It felt weird to throw. I worked with Billy, and he really helped me get back in sync. My mechanics are the best they've been in a while.

I was surprised people put relatively little emphasis on the value of the interior of their car. What we find is a lot of people are losing a lot of money by not paying attention to resale value.

I was surprised. It's not that (Air Force) was not good. They didn't have any top-50 wins to stand upon, and they lost in the first round of their conference tournament, to a team with a losing record.

I was scared to death. It's a great responsibility. This is good for the entire Pittsburgh area because we're losing population and need to start getting more people to come to the area.

I wouldn't call it a hard landing. I think it will be tough to make money, but to me a hard landing is when not everyone is losing money, closing plants and jobs are being lost. This is a record year. I would really hate to think they need a new level of record sales to stay profitable because I don't think that's sustainable.

I would regularly hear from blue-collar workers who feared losing their jobs because they didn't speak Spanish.

I wish we could have kept some of the players that we ended up losing to other teams, but we're still one of the teams closest to the cap right now, so we will have one of the most expensive teams in the league.

I would expect to get more because we have the Washington Nationals, instead of the Expos. We paid into it even in years we were losing money because of local (media contracts). But I would much rather be paying money than getting it because that means the team is doing well and the attendance is up. We will get in that position again.

I was pleased with the way I improved over the course of the match, ... By the end of the match, I was much more comfortable. But I was a little nervous in the beginning and the ball was really flying. I was trying to go after the ball so it didn't play me, but I wasn't quite committed to letting my swing go, so I was sort of moving forward and not finishing my swing, and I was losing control of a few shots.

I guess it's a way for a lot of people to express themselves after losing a loved one, but we had incidents where the roadside memorial got out of hand.

I guess if we can't be first, we might as well be second. There's no shame in losing to (Lancaster). That's a top-notch basketball team. They're a tough, hard-nosed competitive team.

If we really do get a president like Mackenzie Allen who is very tough without losing (her sense of) who she is, that's the kind of woman we want.

If we pressed them, we were losing this game.

If we play the run effectively we have an excellent chance to win the game, ... There's a demoralizing effect when you can't stop the run. When you know your opponent is going to run and you make your best call to stop it and they still get four or five yards, it has an effect on the defense in terms of physical play and losing those one-on-one battles.

If we have a great tournament and we happen to win the tournament then we erase all the negative things that have been going on, especially the losing part.

If we're not growing we're losing ground. Our job is to improve and strengthen hunter numbers.

If the setups take too long, you wind up losing momentum. Momentum is very good for comedy. Not having to do eight setups in a single scene and have it take five hours is very good for comedy.

I got too high, hit the grass and was sliding around. I came close to losing it, but fortunately I was able to save it and get back on track.

I got the call at about 1 a.m. that night, and I went out to the municipal airport. In those days, we were all so close within the athletic department, so we were all losing close friends. There were a lot of funerals to go to in addition to the memorial service we had in McDonald Gym.

If they do not shift their efforts to alleviate technology issues and improve customer service in the coming months, they risk losing the customers they spent so much to acquire.

If they didn't change the engine and something was damaged, that could have cost Stewart the championship. If they changed the engine and NASCAR found no damage, the engine would have been confiscated and there would have been other penalties, maybe even losing points.

If they clot off, there's probably a 50 percent chance of losing your leg, whereas if you fix them electively, it becomes a couple of percent.

If they clot off, there's probably a 50% chance of losing your leg, whereas if you fix them electively, it becomes a couple of percent.

If they are losing a lot of games due to weather then there is some sense to do that. If the PCB seriously feels that they are losing games due to weather they should bring up the case with the ICC.

If we can do this, what can't we do? ... If we can sustain losing Norm . . . what can't we handle?

If they had acted fast there was a chance to win our hearts and minds, but they are losing that chance.

If they feel like the consumer is losing his strength and his spending power in the market, and he's going to be putting more money into savings, that's going to make the market nervous.

If we can't make money on the Tasman something has to give. We have to reduce services or withdraw. We can't just sit in a market losing money for ever.

I don't have a problem with the guy. The guy is a tremendous player on the field. Everyone has seen that, and I have been a part of that. It takes a team to succeed on the field, so no way do I ever point at one person as being the reason why we were winning or losing football games. But he certainly is a difference-maker. If I were able to have the opportunity to be a teammate of his again, I would not back down from it.

I didn't want to take a chance at drawing a foul, losing the ball, whatever the case may have been, so I stopped and shot the jumper.

I didn't want to have a five- or six-game losing streak going into the playoffs. Getting a conference win right now was key.

I don't even gamble because I hate losing money. But I figure it's going to education, so it can't be that bad.

I didn't do anything wrong to go 3-0 down, it's just that Shaun played so well, but you're better off losing three frames like that than missing the final black when you've had a chance to win.

I don't know what to say. It's a tough situation, especially when you lose one of the best leadoff men right now. A lot of things have gone on this year and this is the biggest one. To lose Brian Roberts is like losing half the team.

I don't know that you get a whole lot out of losing and saying that you played well. But I thought we played really hard. We didn't quit, and we weren't intimidated.

I don't know, we'll just have to wait and see. Obviously, it would be a help, it would give us another big body. But we're just not doing the little things right now. That's why we're losing games. So who's to say that bringing AD back is going to change all that.

I don't know why everyone was stressin' because we weren't losing those games,

I don't know now if I'll have applicants from within. I believe they're losing more than they'll be gaining.

I don't know why we're losing them. I think once we get one we'll be fine. I think losing on the last shot (at ASU), and to Arizona in overtime really brought us down.

I don't care if you're staying at the Trump Plaza. If you're losing football games, it's going to be a long season.

I don't believe that the people of America want this national election turned over to lawyers and court contests, ... I can certainly understand the pain and frustration of losing an election so very, very narrowly, but it is time to honor the will of the people. It is time to let the orderly process of transitioning go forward.

I'd better start gaining some more weight if I'm going to be tackling people. I've been losing all this weight playing Marvin Harrison and Larry Fitzgerald.

I can actually go to bed with this one without fear of losing my soul.

I am disappointed at losing that late goal but we will survive in this division if we continue in that kind of form. But our lads need to believe in themselves a bit more.

I am deeply disappointed by this decision from the BRAC Commission, ... ... What disappoints me most about the decision is that the U.S. Air Force will be losing so many highly qualified people.

I am deeply concerned that the FAA is losing a number of its most senior safety inspectors and does not have the ability to replace them,

I am losing $2,600 a week on fuel that used to go toward my profit,

I am feeling stronger every day. Every day I am weighing myself and I am losing weight.

I am extremely happy with the playing (on Saturday). This was a tournament we thought that we could win. We came off a hard game against Carbondale, we were pumped up and we were mad about losing - we were pumped up (Saturday).

I am satisfied with my performance in the last 20 months. I have no regrets for losing power. Power may come and go.

I am saddened very much by the latest events. I don't really know where we go from here. Looks like at this time we're in for the long haul. I'm fed up -- looks like we are just going to have to walk the picket lines. My members are losing money. Ever day it is getting worse, than getting better.

I am so happy for this group of girls because they have taken a beating from me during our losing streak. They have played hard every minute of every game in this tournament.

I am so delighted. It's hard to talk about without choking up. We thought were in risk of losing our pristine bay.

I am pumped to come back to Laredo because this is where I wanted to be, ... Losing in the Finals last season left a bitter taste in my mouth and we are hoping to win it all this year.

I am still experimenting with a little bit of the chemistry on the field, working in some of the sophomores to see who will work with whom. When we were losing those points, they got a couple of fast breaks, and our defense just wasn't crashing in fast enough.

Certainly, losing any services that provide help for the juvenile problem in the state is not good,

But what we're really concerned with is the fact that we're losing our defense industrial base.

Bush was in trouble even before Katrina. He was losing support on Iraq , people were worried about the economy -- even if the objective data don't necessarily support that -- and Katrina exacerbated all of that.

I'm always surprised at how close these matches are and how thin the winning and losing margin is.

Imagine losing your entire family. When I got the chance to do this event, I was more than motivated.

I'm a great believer in the difference between winning and losing is intensity. Our intensity has picked up lately. This is a great group of kids who make it enjoyable to come to practice every day. We are getting better all the time.