“If you can't be a highway, then just be a trail,If you can't be the sun, be a star;It isn't by size that you win or you fail-Be the best of whatever you are.”

“That is the way Emerson said it. But here is the way a poet -the late Douglas Mallochsaidit:If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill.Be a scrub in the valley-but beThe best little scrub by the side of the rill;Be a bush, if you can't be a tree.If you can't be a bush, be a bit of the grass.If you can't be a muskie, then just be a bass-But the liveliest bass in the lake!We can't all be captains, we've got to be crew.There's something for all of us here.There's big work to do and there's lesser to doAnd the task we must do is the near.If you can't be a highway, then just be a trail,If you can't be the sun, be a star;It isn't by the size that you win or you fail-Be the best of whatever you are!”

“Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane.”

“If you can't win the game, if you can't solve the puzzle, then you're just a loser.- Near”

“You can't win an argument. You can't because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it.”

“You can't even lose if you don't enter. And you never know; you just might win.”