Roger Federer Quotes

I always say when the opponent was better.

No shame in losing to an all-time great.

I have a lot of respect for who beats me and that's it.

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

Losing gracefully is commended but never chosen.

Sometimes in football you have to hold your hand up and say, yeah, they're better than us.

That's a great team we lost to. It just wasn't our day.

We're not going to win every single one.

You cannot win every game.

Some games are going to be bad. You can't win every game. That comes along with sports.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

I don't care how good you play, you can find somebody who can beat you, and I don't care how bad you play, you can find somebody you can beat.

It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.

I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.

Is victory sweet because your side wins - or is it really because the other side loses?

Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.

You can't beat somebody with nobody.

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

I love a good loser.

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

As a professional, you're taught from a young age to despise losing. But I began to accept that, in football, you will win some games, and you will lose some games, with draws here and there, too. That's just the nature of the game.

Knowing that the teams in front of us are sometimes better than you, you have to recognise that and be humble. It's part of the game.

I'm an athlete, I'm a competitor, so whenever you have a loss, you feel it in your heart.

I'm not gonna sugarcoat it: It sucks to lose sometimes.