Jim Ross Quotes

To be a good loser is to learn how to win.

It's never OK to lose a game.

I've never liked losing, ever since I was a boy in Macon, my hometown. I couldn't watch other teams lifting trophies.

I want to win games; I don't want to lose games.

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.

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'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.

I love to win; but I love to lose almost as much. I love the thrill of victory, and I also love the challenge of defeat.

As a sportsman, you always play to win. Having said that, it's not possible to win every day. There will be days when you will do well and there will be days you won't.

Sometimes in football you have to hold your hand up and say, yeah, they're better than us.

Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.

I don't mind getting beaten, but I hate to lose.

If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose.

Nobody cares about the bronze or silver medals.

To be able to have winning in your blood growing up, whether it was pounding my little brother or trying to beat my dad in something, or just competing on teams with my friends, it was nonstop.

I don't play to sweat, I play to win.

Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

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

My definition of winning at squash is playing and surviving, and I've never lost a match.

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

In playing or managing, the game of ball is only fun for me when I'm out in front and winning. I don't give a hill of beans for the rest of the game.

You learn how to be a gracious winner and an outstanding loser.

On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'

I can't say, 'It doesn't matter if you win or lose.' It's not true. You go in to win.

My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn't always happen, but that's what I try for.