Karl Rove Quotes

I tried to be the leader ... that was my aim. But it is important to know how to win and how to lose.

Being a leader requires being confident enough in your own decisions and those of your team to own them when they fail. The very best leaders take the blame but share the credit.

I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat.

Victory finds a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

You're the quarterback, if you lose games... it's the head coach and the quarterback. If you're not winning, it's on you.

Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football.

Any captain can only do his best for the team and for cricket. When you are winning, you are a hero. Lose, and the backslappers fade away.

When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.

Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.

When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.

If victory has a hundred fathers, it also brings forth a hundred advisors.

Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.

It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures... that is devilishly hard

To say that the captain makes the team lose or win is not correct.

I had to go out and give my team a chance. I didn't want to be remembered as the guy blowing the World Series.

Every team is going to lose; every team is going to win.

It's a sport. Sometimes you lose and sometimes you win.

This is sports. In sports, you win and you lose. That's the nature of sports. You can't get away from that part of it. And if you get too hung up on the losing part, then you miss the boat. The competition part, a game like that, is why you play sports. That is as good as it gets.

This is football: one day you win, one day you lose, and there's a very fine line between them.

Success has many fathers and failure is an orphan.

Losers fix the blame; winners fix what caused the problem.

Winning isn't the end of the world

When you win, there's glory enough for everybody. When you lose, there's glory for none.

A good balance of winning and losing is important. If you just win all the time, you won't get anything out of it; having some tough losses can be really important.