Tony Romo Quotes

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.

If we have a good day and we win, I'll celebrate and enjoy it. If I have a bad day and I lose, I'll be disappointed and then come back the next day and think about the next team.

I'm sure Bobby won't want them to be losing the match before winning it.

Greatest thing in life: Winning a tennis match. Second greatest thing in life: Losing a tennis match

You learn to accept defeat graciously in golf. Unlike other sports, the game itself is a constant opponent. It never stops. A golfer is fortunate to win a few times. We spend our whole lives trying to conquer something, and we lose a lot more than we win.

I could be a real jerk on the days I was pitching.

The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who perform great feats before friendly crowds. Greatness in major league sports is the ability to win in a stadium filled with people who are pulling for you to lose.

You can't play sports without losing sometimes and, in losing, you learn something about grace and how to act under pressure.

You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.

Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical.

Tension is the greatest curse in sport. I've never had any tension. You give the best you have - you win or lose. What's the difference if you give all you've got to give?

When I'm out on the football field, I have so much confidence in what I'm doing.

I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.

As a sportsman, you always play to win. Having said that, it's not possible to win every day. There will be days when you will do well and there will be days you won't.

I would cry after losses when I was a kid and pout. But I played like that.

Even if I play backgammon with my coach, I hate to lose. I won't talk to him for, like, an hour. So imagine how it feels when you lose at tennis. That makes me determined not to lose because I hate it so much. Even at a set down and match point, I always believe I can come back.

My definition of winning at squash is playing and surviving, and I've never lost a match.

I pretty much knew that I was going to come in fourth, but then I said, 'I'm fourth at the Olympic Games. What are you talking about? Why is that disappointing?'

Don't matter what they throw at us. Only angry people win football games.

I was a terrible loser growing up. I took it far too seriously. There were water works if I lost. I would go home and break it down in angry detail: How did I lose? What could I do next time?

I don't think I even understand the full meaning of athletics.

That is one of my biggest problems; I do get upset when we lose and it takes me a while to get over it.

I don't have friends when I'm on the court, besides my team.

I like to play basketball. Sometimes if someone takes that away from you, you've got to get in your feelings for a reason.

I mean, sometimes if you're not always going to win on the scoreboard, you want to make sure that you're there physically.