I'd rather lose large than win slightly. I think life is an oil painting, not a watercolor.
I see the collapse of the Soviet Union as a great tragedy of the XX century.
Never have so few, lost so much, so stupidly, so fast.
And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!
I took about a year to fully adjust. Like there's a death at the family or a divorce, you don't just snap your fingers and it's over.
Sometimes people need to experience great loss to really be driven deeper.
I knew I was going to lose my house in Ireland and all the other properties. It's all gone. But my house was the one material thing that was very important to me.
I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game.
it's gonna hurt because it matters.
A person who hasn't grieved a significant loss has unfinished business inside and can cause others great grief as a result.
If you started a business when Christ was born and lost $1 million a day, it would still take another 700 years before you lost $1 trillion.
I remember the day when they sold Brian Deane and Jan Aage Fjortoft. It was like when President Kennedy got shot.
This was more than just a cow - this was an entire career I was looking at.
Recently somebody said, "Hey, you lost weight," and I said, "Yeah, thirty-five pounds and three and a half billion dollars." So I'm quite a bit lighter and more flexible than I was.
