Joe Root Quotes

It's not pleasant when you lose your whole football team.

Defeats are always tough, whatever you have lost, and they affect me the same way they affect anyone who loses a match - no more or less.

Losses are always hard to swallow, and every sportsperson has the same feeling.

Losing is a tough blow to take.

It's a bad feeling, losing a World Cup.

There's no more bad feeling than when you get a defeat.

No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.

Losing is tough.

You remember the finals you lose as much as the ones you win.

I think any time you lose an Ashes series, especially with the hype and build-up surrounding it and the pride we have as Australians playing against England, that's always hard to take.

The disappointment of losing is huge.

It hurts to lose an election.

As most who have engaged in competitive sports know, there's nothing to match the amplitude of emotion brought by losing.

When the Cleveland Cavaliers lost the 2015 NBA Finals to Golden State, LeBron James sat motionless in the locker room, staring straight ahead, still wearing his game jersey, for 45 minutes after the final buzzer. Here was a guy immensely wealthy, widely admired, at the peak of his powers - yet stricken, inconsolable.

The sting of losing is bad.

A loss is horrible, and it's even worse in the UFC.

It's always disappointing to lose a final.

I don't know if people understand - losing is tough.

There's a lot of disappointment when you lose a playoff game.

Every game that you lose it hurts, but especially when you lead 2-1, and you lose 4-2.

Once it's over and you understand what's going on, it's a shame. You want to win three sets.

It's the worst feeling in the world - losing, and losing in a final on the big stage is even worse.

My worst moment in football was losing that Champions League final to Barca in Rome.

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.

It's always going to be hard when you see the other team lifting a trophy. When you have to walk up those stairs and collect the runners-up medal, it's hard.