Quotes about losers-and-losing

Losing doesn't eat at me the way it used to. I just get ready for the next play, the next game, the next season.

— Troy Aikman

No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.

— Muhammad Ali

Knute Rockne liked bad losers. He said good losers lose too often.

— George E. Allen

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

— Marcus Aurelius

Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

— Elisabeth Bishop

The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.

— Bill Bradley

I'm not much of a golfer, I don't have any friends and, all I like to do is go home and be alone, and not worry about ways not to lose.

— Bear Bryant

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

— Samuel Butler

Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

— Galeazzo Ciano

I hate to lose more than I love to win.

— Jimmy Connors

I think we now come to the park expecting to win instead of playing not to lose.

— Eric Davis

You're never a loser until you quit trying.

— Mike Ditka

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot.

— Leo Durocher

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? is not this also a return?

— Epictetus

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

— Robert Frost

If a man falls once, all will tread upon him.

— Thomas Fuller

There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.

— Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.

— Baltasar Gracian

When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.

— Steffi Graf

The first proof of a person's incapacity to achieve, is their endeavoring to fix the stigma of failure on others.

— B. R. Hayden

We have resolved to endure the unendurable and suffer what is insufferable.

— Hirohito

No wise person should make known the loss of fortune, any malpractice in their house, his being cheated, or having been disgraced.

— Hitopadesa

The cheerful loser is the winner.

— Elbert Hubbard

All the world loves a good loser.

— Kin Hubbard

It's the good loser who finally loses out.

— Kin Hubbard

When you are winning too much, sometimes you think you should never lose again. I am learning to lose.

— Goran Ivanisevic

What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.

— Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I never lost a game. I just ran our of time.

— Bobby Layne

We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.

— Robert E. Lee

Every man's got to figure to get beat sometime.

— Joe Louis

Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.

— F. L. Lucan

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

— Motto

Whoever said, It's not whether you win or lose that counts, probably lost.

— Martina Navratilova

Show me a good loser and I will show you a loser.

— Paul Newman

Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.

— Jim Palmer

Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.

— Joe Paterno

Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.

— Pat Riley

You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.

— Pat Riley

Shouda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done.

— Pat Riley

There is no doubt in my mind that there are many ways to be a winner but there is really only one way to be a loser and that is to fail and not look beyond the failure.

— Kyle Rote Jr.

When I lose a match, I know that I lose on the court and not in life.

— Gabriela Sabatini

Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.

— William Shakespeare

The minute you start talking about what your going to do if you lose, you have lost.

— George Shultz

The fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser.

— O. J. Simpson

Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.

— Mark Twain

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.

— Queen Victoria

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

— Richard Whately

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

— Walt Whitman