Rick Warren Quotes

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

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

There is no mat space for malcontents or dissenters. One must neither celebrate insanely when he wins, nor sulk when he loses. He accepts victory professionally, humbly; he hates defeat, but makes no poor display of it.

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.

I love a good loser.

I learnt my lessons very early on that it's probably a good thing to be humble in victory as well as defeat.

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.

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

I think sometimes it is more important to be gracious than to win.

Be brave if you lose and meek if you win.

The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.

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

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

I love competition and really going for it and doing my best, but losing isn't really upsetting to me. I feel like if I do lose, the other person really deserved it.

I think sportsmanship is knowing that it is a game, that we are only as a good as our opponents, and whether you win or lose, to always give 100 percent.

Do not completely defeat your opponents. Leave your opponents some dignity with which to walk off the field. They have been elected by some people and you have no right to dismember them… When you do that, you lose all semblance of leadership.

I always say it's much nicer to win by shaking a man's hand rather than slapping him in the face.

We're gracious and we're humble, and we play the game a certain way, whether we win or lose.

Winning and losing have their significance in a democracy. But there should be no arrogance in victory, nor should there be any despondency in defeat.

No shame in losing to an all-time great.

Even though you're irritated or disappointed about a game, never lose your human side.

It's never over until we're shaking hands at the net. Then you've either won or you've lost, and - either way - you look them in the eye and say, 'Well played, mate.'

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

The biggest players I've seen are the ones that take the wins well - don't get carried away with them - but the defeats really hurt.

I don't think it's a good M.O. to disrespect your opponents, and maybe that's why the teams that disrespected me and my team lost to us.