Quotations and Poems

» “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 loser. 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 masters; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.”
– Elizabeth 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 Dostoevski

»  ”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

»  ”It’s the good loser who finally loses out.”
– Kin Hubbard

»  ”All the world loves a good loser.”
– 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

»  ”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

»  ”Shouda, coulda, and woulda won’t get it done.”
– 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

»  ”Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.”
– 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