Jesse Owens Quotes

We're here to win the race. If we get beat, we get beat.

I hate losing. It doesn't matter if it's racing or playing Ping-Pong - I hate it.

I love playing the game. I always have. Of course, winning matches makes it much sweeter. The wins and the losses always lead to these big moments, unless you're Serena Williams.

I hate when someone gets the better of me. A Division 1 wrestler comes in and takes me down and I get frustrated.

I'm an athlete, I'm a competitor, so whenever you have a loss, you feel it in your heart.

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.

It's a lot more fun when you're winning than losing.

The way I look at it, 29 teams fail every year and one team succeeds.

This is sports. In sports, you win and you lose. That's the nature of sports. You can't get away from that part of it. And if you get too hung up on the losing part, then you miss the boat. The competition part, a game like that, is why you play sports. That is as good as it gets.

When you lose a game, there's obviously disappointment, and you want a game straight away.

No matter how well or how bad you play, when you have a chance of winning and you come up a little bit too short, it obviously hits you a little bit. It stinks.

Some games are going to be bad. You can't win every game. That comes along with sports.

Nobody loves finishing second, as we've seen in past races. It's a sport that you want to get everything you can out of it, but sometimes it just doesn't work out.

This is football: one day you win, one day you lose, and there's a very fine line between them.

If somebody scores on me, I'm going to be mad.

Trust me, Stade is not a comfortable place to be if you're losing, regardless of the venue.

Nobody wants to be losing, especially in New York. It's extremely tough. That's how it is.

Winning is the most important thing, especially in this sport, because when you lose in this sport, it's very hard because you go back, and you have to rebuild your chances to fight for the title.

We've definitely been in a few positions where it's come down to the end of the race and we've been able to close the deal, and we've definitely been in position where we've lost a few.

No one is going to remember a second-place team.

You never want to lose but it happens in the NFL.

Horseshoes are lucky. Horses have four bits of lucky nailed to their feet. They should be the luckiest animals in the world. They should rule the country. They should win all their horse races, at least. 'In the fifth race today, every single horse was first equal...one horse threw a shoe came in third...the duck was ninth...and five ran.'

You're all playin' for second place.

I was awarded 'Most Aggressive Rider of the Day', generally given to the most spectacular loser of the day.

You lose in the Finals, they're all disappointing. Doesn't matter if I'm playing in Miami, Cleveland or on Mars. You lose the Finals, it's disappointing.