Sports locutions

[ronbutters at AOL.COM]

This one has to be as old as the 1940's (probably older). It was a favorite of my mother (b 1918).
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Charlie writes:
"He can't win for trying."  That one gets some 630 Google hits, and 20 in Google Books (the earliest being from 1978, the others from the 1990s and beyond).
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