Joe Calzaghe Quotes

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

Losing hurts me. I was determined to be the best.

If anything, you know, I think losing makes me even more motivated.

Winners celebrate and losers mobilize.

It is important when you are losing to come back and not get beat.

If it was up to me, I wouldn't lose at all, but when it happens, that's when you have to show your real strength.

Nothing fires me up like losing. It certainly makes you want to go that extra bit.

I was never taught to lose or take losing.

Losing is the bane and bugbear of every professional athlete's existence, but in baseball the monster seems to hang closer than in other sports, its chilly claws and foul breath palpable around the neck hairs of the infielder bending for his crosshand scoop or the reliever slipping his first two fingers off-center on the ball seams before delivering his two-and-two cut fastball.

Losing still hurts, but that's good. When it stops hurting, that's when I stop playing.

I've learned what it feels like to lose, believe me. But I think, in the end, that is just going to make winning that much better.

A good balance of winning and losing is important. If you just win all the time, you won't get anything out of it; having some tough losses can be really important.

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

I'm a winner; I win most of the time. But in order to be a winner, you have to lose some of the time. I'm a terrible loser.

I feel like, with ski racing, you need to have a short memory. You crash all the time, and sometimes it's a really bad one, but sometimes it's not so bad.

I don't like the idea of competition - maybe because I kept losing them when I was a kid. Maybe it's better to be the one who loses?

We count on winning. And if we lose, don't beef. And the best way to prevent beefing is - don't lose.

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

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.

Just because you lost your last game doesn't mean you change anything.

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.

The power of fear of failure, with will to win, is an incredible force. I don't think we should be worried about having a fear of failure; I think it's quite natural. If you surveyed any top businessman or any top athlete, I bet if they were truthful, they would all say they've got a fear of losing and a fear of failure.

As a tennis player, you have to get used to losing every week. Unless you win the tournament, you always go home as a loser. But you have to take the positive out of a defeat and go back to work. Improve to fail better.

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.