Alexander Gustafsson Quotes

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.

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.

Sometimes when you get disappointment it makes you stronger.

Learn how to be a loser, because it's important to be a loser to be a winner.

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

It's never easy to lose the games and then come back stronger.

You have to experience and take defeat in any and all aspects of life so you can be better and stronger.

A winner must first know what losing's like.

Life is more about losing than winning.

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.

I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I really believe that.

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.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning.

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

I've learned to lose with a smile on my face. That's what the Oscar teaches you.

You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.

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.

Winners celebrate and losers mobilize.

Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.

No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity.

I had a lot of negative comments, but it made me stronger and made me want to do more in my game. It made me more determined if anything.