It's no disgrace to play against the world's champions and lose by one service break in the last two sets.
I haven't lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.
The gain to the winner is always less than the loss to the loser.
I had a good chance when I went to Beijing and the guy who beat me, I'd beaten him three weeks before and he went on to win silver.
Two races we've lost which I'm genuinely upset about were India and Turkey.
As most who have engaged in competitive sports know, there's nothing to match the amplitude of emotion brought by losing.
If you lose a race or game in hockey, you lose a game. That's it. If you lose a fight you might lose part of your brain because of the damage.
You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline
