Paul Brown Quotes

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

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

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

Right after the game, say as little as possible.

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.

Be brave if you lose and meek if you win.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

I don't vocalise things that don't deserve attention.

To be a good loser is to learn how to win.

When you lose, there is a whole bunch of room for negativity and I don't feed into this stuff and I do not do any talking. I don't run my mouth.

Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

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

Silence is the greatest ornament of the woman.

Over the years, I have seen too many politicians ruin their careers because they could not accept defeat graciously.

I love a good loser.

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

Sometimes, I get so annoyed when other people brag. And sometimes, I know that I'm better than that or I've got something better in the works; I don't say anything. I just say, 'Really? That's great.'

You have to learn to be a healthy competitor, winning or losing. Because there can be a lot more losses than there are wins.