Marcus Samuelsson Quotes

Sure, I like to win when I play basketball or board games or video games, but my day isn't ruined if I lose. I'm always up for a rematch. In all seriousness, that's something that's nice about maturing.

Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.

Strikers never lose games... we have to be honest and say that.

I had no direct experience of a relegation scrap, but with Wales, I never had the luxury of being allowed to lose games. I was under pressure to win even the friendlies.

You can always tell the golfer who's winning: he's the one who keeps telling his opponent that it's only a game.

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.

At the end of the day, if we don't win that game, we're going home, anyway, so what does it matter. I just wanted to be available, and it ended up to the point where I could help out tonight.

I am going to pretend that all life is just a game which I must play as skilfully and fairly as I can. If I lose, I am going to shrug my shoulders and laugh—also if I win.

It's hard for me to congratulate somebody after you just lose to them. I'm a winner. It's not being a poor sport or anything like that. If somebody beats you up, you're not going to congratulate them. That doesn't make sense to me. I'm a competitor.

Every game is huge and every game will count when it's all said and done.

What goes through my head when I'm going to take a game-winning shot is ... I better make it. Don't be afraid of the moment.

The NBA is tough. Everybody plays hard and every game is vital.

If you win through bad sportsmanship that's no real victory.

You don't go into the game to compete. You go into each game to win.

I just want to keep working hard, stay humble, and keep trying to win games.

You must not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or insulting expressions, nor show too much of the pleasure you feel; but endeavour to console your adversary, and make him less dissatisfied with himself by every kind and civil expression that may be used with truth; such as, you understand the game better than I, but you are a little inattentive, or, you play too fast; or, you had the best of the game, but something happened to divert your thoughts, and that turned it in my favour.

To be a good sportsman, one must be a stoic and never show rancor in defeat, or triumph in victory, or irritation, no matter what annoyance is encountered. One who can not help sulking, or explaining, or protesting when the loser, or exulting when the winner, has no right to take part in games or contests.

When the game is over I just want to look at myself in the mirror, win or lose, and know I gave it everything I had.

Many times, the game comes down to the final possession, the final shot. I want to become a better clutch performer. That's what separates the really good players from the really great players.

One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it.

We play because we love the game, we love each other, and we love to win.

I guess it's good in a sense that it stops any of it from happening, but now you're telling me if it's Game 7 of the NBA Finals and a guy has a chance to make a play he's going to be like, 'Well, do I want this $10,000 or do I want a championship?'

The greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league game. The second-greatest feeling is to lose a major league game.

Italians can't win the game against you, but you can lose the game against the Italians.