Tom Osborne Quotes

Leaders must learn to discipline their disappointments. It's not what happens to us, it is what we choose to do about what happens that makes the difference in how our lives turn out.

I learned how to win by losing and not liking it.

You can't control all the crazy stuff that happens to you. All you can control is the way you handle it.

As soon as I step on the court I just try to play tennis and don't find excuses. You know, I just lost because I lost, not because my arm was sore.

But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.

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

I just try to stay positive and focused on the tennis, not let anything get to me, like crazy questions. But I'm tough, let me tell you, tough as nails.

You don't want to let the other team feed off your outward physical demeanor. But at the same time, you can't go out and play this game and not expect to just be angry and be competitive and be excited and have that fire in your belly.

I can't control what the other team's gonna feel. I'm just gonna go out there and hoop, and whoever takes it to heart and takes their losses salty, I can't do anything about that.

The biggest players I've seen are the ones that take the wins well - don't get carried away with them - but the defeats really hurt.

I never think about losing. That's why it's so hard to accept a loss.

You can tell a great athlete by, like, not how many times he wins, unlike when he loses. Because that's what is gonna make a swimmer.

Can't react every time you're insulted. Free people absorb destructive things and refuse to be destroyed

What makes a champion is not how elegantly you start, but how strongly you finish...!!

I am not going to allow myself not to perform well just because I don't feel well. I am bulletproof to the extent that a lot of things can be thrown at me, but it's about how much I am prepared to let them affect me

If you ask what's been my secret of success, most might say it's my God-given athletic ability to throw a football. While talent is important, it's not necessarily the most important thing. Thousands of talented people fail every day. My strength has been my will to win-that competitive fire inside.

The greatest measure of a human being isn't how he handles himself when things are going well, but how he handles himself when things are going badly, when defeat comes.

For me, it always goes back to something I learned in basketball. There's winning and there's losing, and in life you have to know they both will happen. But what's never been acceptable to me is quitting.

There is a lot of basketball beyond our control, but a player should never let anyone try harder than he does

All you can do is handle it, worst thing you can do is panic. Use it to your advantage, avoid insanity, manage to conquer ever obstacle, make impossible possible. Even when winning's illogical, losing is still far from optional.

I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger.

Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor.

One of the things I've done is tell myself I can't let bad things that happen to me on the field, off the field, whatever, affect me.

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.