A. A. Milne Quotes

If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose.

I am someone that is very competitive. When I'm on the field, I compete. When I'm practicing, when I'm in meetings. I'm a competitor in everything.

I'm a bad loser, but I'm not a good winner either - I like to rub it in people's faces!

It is impossible to win gracefully at chess.

You can always tell the golfer who's winning: he's the one who keeps telling his opponent that it's only a game.

I hate losing more than I like winning.

[Football is] a game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity.

Every day I wrote in my journal: "How am I going to win today?" So that when the guys are talking about water-boarding I'm telling them they haven't even got the right towels.

I usually never stay at the board after a game. Especially against Spassky. I made a dumb suggestion and he refuted it instantly! I know I'm going to have to play him some day and it was really stupid to look like such a jerk in front of him.

You don't go into the game to compete. You go into each game to win.

I'm a very competitive person, whether it's school, baseball or even playing video games.

When Marx got into a difficult position he would get angry and losing a game would cause him to fly into a rage.

Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?

I want to win at everything. I usually don't like things that I'm not good at, but it doesn't mean I don't want to win at them.

Of course we want to win every game, but winning forever is more about realizing your potential and making yourself as good as you can be. Realizing that is a tremendous accomplishment, whether it's in football or in life.

Did you know, throughout the cosmos they found intelligent life forms that play to play? We are the only ones that play to win. Explains why we have more than our share of losers.

I'm competitive to a fault, so of course every week I'm just like, "I want to win, I want to do great."

I don't see any point in playing the game if you don't win, do you?

When the game is over I just want to look at myself in the mirror, win or lose, and know I gave it everything I had.

There's a book called "The Sociopath Next Door." I thought most sociopaths were violent. In fact, they aren't. But almost all sociopaths want to win, no matter what.

The most important thing in a game like that is to win it.

We win our games in practice. We learn and follow the fundamentals of our game better than anyone in the league. All of our games are won in practice.

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.

I am quite competitive. In stupid things like card games.

Fighting for me is a chess game. I'm not angry with my opponent. I just want to go in there and win.