“It doesn’t matter if you win or lose. What matters is if I win or lose”
“It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose,” a modern sports adage says. The saying was credited to “Darrin Weinberg” in 1985 and to “Darin Weinberg” in 1988. The spelling of the first name is uncertain, as is Weinberg’s identity.
6 August 1985, The Times-Tribune (Corbin, KY), “Celebrity Cipher,” pg. 8, col. 6:
“It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.” — Darrin Weinberg
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1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said
By Robert Byrne
New York, NY: Fawcett Books
1988
Pg. 232:
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It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.
Darin Weinberg
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Harry Anderson’s Games You Can’t Lose:
A Guide for Suckers
By Harry Anderson and Turk Pipkin
New York, NY: Pocket Books
1988
Pg. 14:
“It’s not whether you win or lose . . . it’s whether I win or lose.”
15 May 1988,
(Stamford, CT), “What course is Bobby Knight steering?” by Blackie Sherrod (Dallas Morning News), pg. C6, col. 3:
You’ve got to admire the honest sentiment on that button that Sandy Lyle wears on his golf cap: “It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s whether I win or lose.”
25 May 1989, St. Petersburg (FL) Times, “Pinellas standouts have confident leader: Tunsil” by Tim Looney, pg. 14:
It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose. - Darin Weinberg
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Trading Regime Analysis:
The Probability of Volatility
By Murray Gunn
Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
2009
Pg. 219:
“It’s not whether you win or lose – but whether I win or lose.”
Sandy Lyle
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It really doesnt matters if you win or lose, what REALLY matters is if I win or lose.
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It doesn’t matter if you win or lose. What matters is if *I* win or lose.
10:26 AM - 29 Oct 2010