Jock Stein Quotes

I remember my late father, who was the biggest football fan I have ever known, used to stress when I was younger that, win or lose, you always have to compete with honor.

To go into a competition and not strive to win is to be a dishonest competitor.

About winning and losing: It isn't important, what really counts is how you play the game. About playing the game: PLAY TO WIN!

If one thinks only of winning, a sordid victory will be worse than a defeat. For the most part, it becomes a squalid defeat.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner.

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.

Whether it's a friendly match, or for points, or a final, or any game - I play the same. I'm always trying to be my best, first for my team, for myself, for the fans, and to try and win.

I hear people saying 'the way the game should be played'. Rubbish. That's the worst saying in football. You win the game, then worry about the way it should be played.

The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.

I don't think it's a matter of, do you win the game or not, it's how gracefully do you play it.

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

Grantland Rice told us that it matters not whether you win or lose. It’s how you play the game! I bought that when I was young. Then I found out that it was a lie. America is about winning!

The most important thing is to win, it doesn't matter how.

Sport is dirty if you want to win, but I am not a dirty player.

It's important to win with style.

You go out onto the playing field every time to win and you will do all you can to do that, but not at all costs and especially not to cheat.

We don't ever show up trying to throw games.

Now winning is more important and it trumps the way you achieve it. Unfortunately for soccer, the style doesn't matter so much.

I don't see why I should be happy scoring a goal against an opponent on a much lower level than we are.

Obviously, I want to win, but at the same time, at the end of the day, it's a game and that's what I'm going to treat it as.

I have to respect my opponent, always, doesn't matter who he is, but I'll get in there and win. That's a fact.

I can deal with losing as long as one is trying to win. If you're losing, and you're not trying to win, that is not fair.

The objective is to win: fairly, squarely, decently, win by the rules, but still win.

I don't feel that Shaunae Miller cheated me because she didn't break any rules or anything like that, but I do feel like it's a very difficult way to lose. Having worked so hard and I know that that was such a close race, it just kind of made it even harder to deal with defeat just because of how it was done. But I don't think that she had any ill intention by it or did it on purpose. I think it just kind of happened.