Jean Webster Quotes

Let us play the game of life as sportsmen, pocketing our winnings with a smile, leaving our losings with a shrug.

If I win, it's nice. But even if I don't win, I will keep smiling.

It's important to play the right way. If you play the right way, it's so much fun.

Whoever said "It's not whether you win or lose but how you play the game" is full of it! Winning makes all the difference in the world. Winning is fun. Losing is not. Losing sucks.

I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.

God, let me remember all good losers.

Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football.

I tell the kids, somebody's gotta win, somebody's gotta lose. Just don't fight about it. Just try to get better.

We play fair and we play hard. If we win the game we win, if we lose the game, we lose.

I think sportsmanship is knowing that it is a game, that we are only as a good as our opponents, and whether you win or lose, to always give 100 percent.

Mary Peters. When I was having my sulky, stroppy, bad loser phase I watched her at the Olympics. Sometimes she failed but always with a smile and good grace. She taught me how to win and lose, and I have a photo taken with her in my lounge.

You have to learn to be a healthy competitor, winning or losing. Because there can be a lot more losses than there are wins.

As a professional, you're taught from a young age to despise losing. But I began to accept that, in football, you will win some games, and you will lose some games, with draws here and there, too. That's just the nature of the game.

I've never been a guy that's been salty about the shots I'm getting. I just try to play the right way.

The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give... Win or lose the game is finished. It's over. It's time to forget and prepare for the next one.

Good sportsmanship we hail, we sing, It's always pleasant when you spot it. There's only one unhappy thing: You have to lose to prove that you've got it.

You lose, you smile, and you come back the next day. You win, you smile, you come back the next day.

You've got to believe you can win. But I believe respect for the fact that you can lose is what you always have to keep in mind so that nothing suprises you.

Play the game with a smile.

If you don't win, it's not a great tragedy - the worst that happens is that you lose a game.

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

To succeed takes more than the desire to win. It also takes the acceptance that we could fail.

Obviously I would have loved to have won, but I have had a good run every match.

You have to accept both losing and winning well. I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost.

It's awfully important to win with humility. It's also important to lose. I hate to lose worse than anyone, but if you never lose you won't know how to act. If you lose with humility, then you can come back.