Brian K. Vaughan Quotes

Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.

Life is more about losing than winning.

Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose.

I think everybody has their pain. For me, the time that I really had to grow up was when I was 15 and I had my best friend die of leukemia. Watching somebody so strong go through that is definitely something that will give you a little bit of depth. There have been a lot of things that have happened in my life that has forced me to grow up.

There have been bumps, but everything has happened for a reason - maybe apart from the loss of some loved ones - and we have always tried to find a positive from it.

If you lose a game, you lose a game. You've got to deal with it.

Normally, a loss, it's hard to swallow, but you get over it sooner or later.

I've been through the highs and lows. I know what it's like to taste defeat and it's not nice.

Rejection is just a part of life.

What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.

Losing a basketball game hurts but when you see what you've been through, you look on it and say well if this is the worst thing that can happen to me, then I'm okay.

Nothing is more humbling than getting your ass kicked.

To live in the midst of suffering, which we do, we do, amid distress, and to keep some equilibrium in the midst of that - that would be happiness enough.

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

Every man's got to figure to get beat sometime.

Life's fairly excruciating. Painful things happen. Every now and then, you drag yourself out of the stream and stand on the bank gasping for air. I think that's how I work.

Whether we fear pain and suffering or not, pain and suffering will come to everyone. Why not keep our minds focused on where we want to go?

If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

It's not the end of the world to lose.

Loss is inevitable - you have to be blind or naive to think otherwise.

Because nobody goes through life without a scar.

Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.

You win some, you lose some and then you get on with it.

I had to fight; I had to fall, and I had to get hurt to be where I am.