Dan O'Brien Quotes

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

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.

Show me a man who is a good loser and I'll show you a man who is playing golf with his boss.

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'm fairly unemotional and tend not to get too excited when things go well and I tend not to get too depressed when they go badly.

If you don't control your emotions, your emotions will control your acts, and that's not good.

You can't control all the crazy stuff that happens to you. All you can control is the way you handle it.

I am president and do not have the right to give in to emotions. I have bad moods, very bad moods, but I never feel despair.

Having a thick skin doesn't mean that you're hard or harsh. I was lucky because I was born with a thick skin. That doesn't mean that things don't bother me, but you have to keep it in perspective.

Show me a good loser and I will show you a loser.

Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad.

You try to hide your emotions, so as not to show weaknesses to others. I believe it's the same for every sportsman.

The ability to manage your emotions and remain calm under pressure has a direct link to your performance.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

All the world loves a good loser.

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

Number four, we're going to play like winners, play the game the way it's meant to be played. Don't get full of yourself if something good happens. Don't get too depressed when something bad happens.

If I'm uncomfortable, you'd never know.

Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.

It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.

For years I used to think that you had to hide your emotions to show that you are strong.

I don't put much pressure on myself, because I'm strong mentally.

Even before I entered the industry, my parents always told me never let success get to your head and failure to your heart.

We have to keep our strong mentality every time, with a good emotional balance to support everything, whether an opponent provokes you or not, because the opponent is doing his job as well.

You have to control your anger - you can't be a baby when you lose.