Jack London Quotes

Any game you play, you got to lose sometime.

I've almost lost several times but come through that. Being able to play your way through the tournament is really able to help.

The books are always there, just the way you wrote them. The plays often don't turn out the way you wanted them to because in the theater, you're always involved with collaborators and they don't always see the work the way you do.

There are times when I have felt the pressure, but at the moment I play cricket the only way I can.

In baseball when they say you're out, you're out. It's the same way in politics.

I suspect that the theme, the nature of the characters, and the method of getting from the beginning of the play to the end is already established in the unconscious.

You lose in the end unless you know how the wheel is fixed or can fix it yourself.

Better to accept the wretched truth than struggle, twisting to make a wish a reality.

I liked to win, but more than anything, I loved to play the way I wanted to play

The only way to defeat pain is to recognize pain exists.

If you train badly, you play badly. If you work like a beast in training, you play the same way.

For a flicker of a moment I imagined a world completely different from the one I'd always known, a world in which I was treated with fairness, even kindness-- a world in which fathers didn't sell their daughters.

.. I get more of a dreamy thing from the audience - it's more of a thing that you go up into. You get into such a pitch sometimes that you go up into another thing. You don't forget about the audience, but you forget about all the paranoia, that thing where you're saying, 'Oh gosh, I'm on stage - what am I going to do now ?' - Then you go into this other thing, and it turns out to be like almost like a play in certain ways

She was having some difficulty piecing together exactly why she deserved to be in this place, but she wasn't stupid enough to deny that in the end life was cruel and didn't pay attention to what was fair.

You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.

When one gets beaten by somebody better, one has to know how to lose with humility. Sure, I could have served better. Sure, I could have hit my forehand harder. But the truth was this was like an avalanche, and there was no way to stop it.

I don't deal in the world of fair. The NFL is the no fair league and I experienced that as much as anybody.

And that's why people read comics, to get away from the way life works, which is quite cruel and unheroic and ends in death.

I don't think it's fair, the way that the establishment is treating Donald Trump. I will be honest.

There is no gaming table in the world where loaded dice are tolerated, no athletic field where men must not start fair. Yet Mr. Rockefeller has systematically played with loaded dice, and it is doubtful if there has ever been a time since 1872 when he has run a race with a competitor and started fair.

The way to form transcends its own destination, goes beyond the end of the way itself.

These are six ways of courting defeat, which must be carefully noted by the general who has attained a responsible post.

The only way was forward, whatever lay at the end.

ISIS is on its way to defeat but terrorism threat persists.

I feel like I just returned a 100-yard kickoff in the last two minutes of the Super Bowl to win it all, only to have my run called back by a flag on the play.