Maggie Stiefvater Quotes

Yes, I'm a real fighter. But I often ended up empty-handed.

Losing hurts me.

While I revel in the memories of my own Grammy moment, I also know how it feels to walk away empty-handed.

I don't like the feeling of losing.

It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.

If you work so hard to reach your goal but you lose your pole in the very last run, that's hard to take.

I'd like to say this was our worst game. Unfortunately, I can't.

Losing is tough.

I always look back and say I should have made more. It should have been more lucrative, but it wasn't.

I just hated to lose.

My biggest loss was the Olympics. I just can't forget losing. I never will.

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.

You remember the finals you lose as much as the ones you win.

I hated to lose.

Falling down is a very big subject, and so is the concept of downfall. None of us escapes, and I have had my share of both.

The disappointment of losing is huge.

When you lose a game or don't play well you can't wait for the next one, because it soon disappears, the disappointment.

I never slept when I lost. I'd see the sun come up without ever having closed my eyes. I'd see those base hits over and over and they would drive me crazy.

It is always nice to get to finals, but never nice to lose in them.

Nobody feels any worse than I do about losing.

I remember as a kid watching one of the Olympic games, and I was cheering for a big track athlete. He was the favorite to win, and he lost. I realized in that moment the pain he felt was so much greater than the pain that those who never thought they were going to win would have felt had they lost.

I did try to win a sixth, but it was not to be.

Winning is something you've dreamed about and hoped for, so that when you get there it's no big deal. But if you lose, you're gutted, and the gutted sense just goes on, and I know what that's like, because I've been having that gutted feeling since 1979.

Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.

People think we don't give a toss about the game, but when I walked out of Windsor Park that night I felt lower than a snake's belly. The reality is still there.