Ariel Helwani Quotes

I think sometimes it is more important to be gracious than to win.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

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

My mom has always just been one of those people who handle adversity and challenges, and really everything, with so much grace and elegance. I saw it all the time.

Jay Wright is class personified. He wins with class, loses with dignity when he does, which is not often.

A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.

My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

All the world loves a good loser.

Writers have told me more than once that I'm a better interview in defeat than in victory, which is a compliment I am extremely proud of.

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

It takes a special kind of grace to walk away from power.

I always say it's much nicer to win by shaking a man's hand rather than slapping him in the face.

We're gracious and we're humble, and we play the game a certain way, whether we win or lose.

If it is written for me to lose, I'll lose with dignity and give credit.

I haven't always been as gracious a loser as I could have been.

The fact is I have lost a fight, and I accept the loss from Allah. That's the way a real fighter and a real man goes out.

Say what you want before the fight but when it's done, you accept the result.

One cannot run from a challenge without losing. To flee is signing a death warrant to dignity and character, and, having run, there is no return; one is a weakling forever. Meeting a challenge, though one may be defeated, gives strength, character, and a certain assurance that regardless of outcome, one will survive or go down fighting.

We're man enough to step in there and fight our hearts out and you have to be man enough to deal with a loss.

I bow to my opponent in praise and thanks. After the fight is a time for humility, acceptance and analysis, no matter the result.

God, let me remember all good losers.

It's a level of strength and character that few of us can imagine; a grace under pressure that few of us will ever attain. It's why an Olympic gold medal would not have made us love or admire her more.

Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.

It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.