Sebastian Coe Quotes

Even if you win, or you lose, you have to respect your opponent.

I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.

My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.

I don't think it's a matter of, do you win the game or not, it's how gracefully do you play it.

You ask the guys in the dressing room, I am a very bad loser.

You try to make sure you have respect for the opposition but still play to win and play hard cricket.

I am proud of being a bad loser. Bad losers are winners. That is the way it should be.

Whoever said "It's not whether you win or lose but how you play the game" is full of it! Winning makes all the difference in the world. Winning is fun. Losing is not. Losing sucks.

You can have fun, respect the game and also play it hard. When you have that combination, you're going to put yourself in a position to be successful.

When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner.

I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries.

I used to play basketball and I was pretty competitive, but I was never a bad loser. I never got angry. For me it was always about doing my best and devoting myself to a challenge.

It is not up to me whether I win or lose. Ultimately, this might not be my day. And it is that philosophy towards sports, something that I really truly live by. I am emotional. I want to win. I am hungry. I am a competitor. I have that fire. But deep down, I truly enjoy the art of competing so much more than the result.

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.

We should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing. But every coach, when they say that, they say it tongue in cheek, 'Don't worry about winning': If you win I'll get you ice cream, but if you lose I'm going to pout in the car.

All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.

Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.

I'm not an aggressive person, but obviously on the sporting field I'll do whatever it takes.

You have to respect all your competitors.

I even believe if you're killing a team, you shouldn't stop. You should respect your opponents enough to play 100 percent the whole time. And by the same token, if you're getting killed by the other team, you should never quit.

It's never OK to lose a game.

NBA players are intense competitors, and it is truly humbling to know that my peers see me as someone who exhibits sportsmanship and respect on the court.

It's nice when you can have that battle on the pitch and then there's respect after the game because, ultimately, you are just trying to do your best.

I just like to win. No hard feelings, I'll still go eat lunch with you after, but I'll kick your butt and then have lunch with you. That's the kind of competitor I am.

You always need to have the highest respect for your opponents. If you see them fighting, you know you have to give something extra.