Winning, Losing, Playing the Game
| Play for more than you can afford to lose, and you will learn the game. – Winston Churchill |
| A struggle of two immaterial principles could only end when the supporters of one had no more means of resistance. An opinion can be argued with: a conviction is best shot. - T. E. Lawrence, "The Evolution of a Revolt" |
| He too learned that in the duel with fate man is not the hunter, but the game, and that a losing match nobly played is his only possible victory. Anonymous Oxford ’s Scholar’s comment on Shakespeare |
| Success is like hunting ‘cause any way you figure you can’t aim nothin’ to death. You gotta pull the trigger. –cowboy poet Luke Warm? |
| A man may fail and fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he blames somebody else for pushing him. – Hames Burroughs |
| It’s not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out where it strong man stumbled or where the doer of great deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena. Whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood. Who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again. And who, while daring greatly, spends himself in a worthy cause so that his place may not be among those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. – Theodore Roosevelt |
| You’ll find that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that’s hardly worth the effort. – Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth |
| Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. — Theodore Roosevelt |
| If you’re in a fair fight, you didn’t plan it properly.—Nick Lappos |