Dan Gable Quotes

When you win, don't swagger. When you lose, don't sulk.

It's awfully important to win with humility. It's also important to lose. I hate to lose worse than anyone, but if you never lose you won't know how to act. If you lose with humility, then you can come back.

When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.

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.

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

I enjoy winning and very much dislike losing- but I did not allow either of them to obsess me. I was a silent loser, believing that if you won you said little, and if you lost you said even less

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.

Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.

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

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

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

You learn how to be a gracious winner and an outstanding loser.

I love playing the game. I always have. Of course, winning matches makes it much sweeter. The wins and the losses always lead to these big moments, unless you're Serena Williams.

I'm fascinated by sports, the buzz of winning, and the buzz of losing.

It's a hard time, winning the Super Bowl or losing the Super Bowl.

Players never want to lose football matches.

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.

Good sportsmanship we hail, we sing, It's always pleasant when you spot it. There's only one unhappy thing: You have to lose to prove that you've got it.

Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.

Sports for me is when a guy walks off the court, and you really can't tell whether he won or lost, when he carries himself with pride either way.

Greatest thing in life: Winning a tennis match. Second greatest thing in life: Losing a tennis match

A few people have said I should let you win

On any given Sunday you're gonna win or you're gonna lose. The point is -- can you win or lose like a man?

The winner gives up his chance to be a good sport.