Gram Parsons Quotes

Don't worry about losing. Think about winning.

I bet on my team to win every night because I love my team; I believe in my team. I did everything in my power every night to win that game.

When you don't win games, yeah, you lose confidence. That's normal.

Play like you're positive on the victory, even though they're leading big now.

We're not preparing to lose games.

We just have to be in the mindset that we are going to be winning games.

I'm a whiskey drinker, but Cesaro is a coffee drinker.

We need the right attitude and the right motivation - that can decide the match above everything else.

If I wrestle the way I can, I won't lose. That's the way I feel going to London.

We need to go into every game believing we are going to win.

I don't think we can win every game. Just the next one.

We've got nothing to lose, and there's no point losing this game

Yeah man, they call gambling a disease, but it's the only disease where you can win a bunch of money.

I didn't lose the gold. I won the silver.

...think of the solution, not the problem. If your mind was filled only with thoughts of why you were going to lose, then you couldn't think of how to win.

He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved.

As for drugs, it annoys me that people think it's the worst thing in the world compared with, say, not paying your taxes. If you don't pay tax, you may be stealing from someone who needs an operation. As for me and drugs or alcohol: No thanks, I'm abstaining for a while.

I just keep thinking about putting up good numbers, playing hard and winning games.

Positive self-expectancy is the first, most outwardly identifiable quality of a top-achieving, winning human being. Positive self-expectancy is pure and simple optimism: real enthusiasm for everything you do... [while] expecting the most favorable result from your own actions. There never was a winner who didn't expect to win in advance. Winners understand that life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. And they know that you usually get what you expect in the long run.

There's one thing I don't ever think about: losing ... Instead, I think about how I'm going to win, and how I can do it the quickest way.

I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.

Take a shot of vodka and hope for the best.

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

If I was drunk, I wouldn’t be here at all. And really, this is pretty good for four White Russians.” “White what?” I almost sat down but was afraid the chair might dematerialize beneath me. “It’s a drink,” he said. “You’d think I wouldn’t be into something named that—you know, considering my own personal experience with Russians. But they’re surprisingly delicious. The drinks, not real Russians.

I love to win. I'm very competitive in most games, but I think also the beauty of the game. There was something about it, the pieces, the shapes, something about them coordinating together and trying to get the other guy.