You hear a lot of drivers say they’ll quit when they’re not enjoying it. That’s pretty much what happened to me. It was a combination of things, but mostly it was losing that enthusiasm I always felt before. – Rick Mears
Losing the presidency is not like losing any other office. More than any other office, it’s a vote about you as a whole human being. – Richard Ben Cramer
I’ve got quite a good poker face. I’m known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I’m feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same. – Rajiv Ouseph
The United States encouraged Iraqis to rise up after Saddam Hussein’s army was driven out of Kuwait. Washington assumed Saddam was weak after losing the 1991 Gulf War. Iraqis rose up, but Saddam’s troops killed thousands – Iraqis say tens of thousands – in a counter-offensive. – Richard Engel
You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates. – Richard M. Nixon
With many comic strips, knowing when to quit isn’t a problem: The syndicate editors simply cancel a feature that is losing papers. – Ron Goulart
I don’t want people losing respect for me as a player. I want to go out in every game and perform to the highest level. I have no retirement plans. I’ve had a lot of injuries but I want to continue playing. – Robbie Fowler
I’ve learned there is a void in adult stories across the land. Hollywood, whatever that is anymore, is losing their ability to tell those stories because they’re not even thinking of that audience. – Peter Riegert
If you don’t invest in basic research at some stage you start losing the basis of applied research. – Rolf-Dieter Heuer
When values disappear, the first people to suffer are women because people start losing their respect for women. – Rula Ghani
Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win. – Patricia Ireland
Western society has many flaws, and it is good for an educated person to have thought some of these through, even at the expense of losing a lecture or two to tear gas. – Robert B. Laughlin
As a tennis player you can win and you can lose, and you have to be ready for both. I practised self-control as a kid. But as you get older they both – winning and losing – get easier. – Rafael Nadal
My heart pounds sickeningly and I turn pale… I often feel as if I were dead… I seem to be losing my mind. – Robert Schumann
It is the Constitution of the United States that has been undermined, undercut, and is under attack. It is the American people’s liberties that is in jeopardy. That is why I wrote ‘Losing America.’ – Robert Byrd
Losing their reproductive rights is the first step to how women live in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan. – Patricia Richardson
One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It’s a revolving door. – Rosabeth Moss Kanter
I think so many people tend to think of faith as blind adherence to a dogma or unquestioned surrender to an authority figure, and the result is losing self-respect and losing our own sense of what is true. And I don’t think of faith in those terms at all. – Sharon Salzberg
If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what’s more, you’ll be a man, my son. – Rudyard Kipling
We are losing the democracy that we’re trying to sell in the Mideast and everywhere else right here in our own nation. – Rosie O’Donnell
Those who fear that we are losing our individualism couldn’t be more wrong: Americans have never been more free to create and recreate themselves. – Rick Smolan
It’s easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job. – Robert Kiyosaki