I can't stand losing.
There's no more bad feeling than when you get a defeat.
Once there was a certain man who was very clever, but it was his character to always see the negative points of his work. If such is one’s way, one will be useless.
It's a bad feeling, losing a World Cup.
When you lose [a primary election], you either sit and pout somewhere or you go out and help the winner.
Sometimes when you've had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you've already had.
Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.
It's tough to take, losing the Ashes. It's bitterly disappointing.
I'm one of life's pessimists. I'm ready for everything to go wrong at any moment.
The sting of losing is bad.
I'm not optimistic.
Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.
No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.
Instead of focusing on this sort of defeatist mentality where we've gotta up the minimum wage, why don't we focus on creating better-paying jobs?
I'm English, so I can be very 'half empty.'
I'm British; pessimism is my wheelhouse.
People do like to talk us down, it's a Scottish thing. We are pessimistic, we look for the negatives all the time.
A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.
Defeats are always tough, whatever you have lost, and they affect me the same way they affect anyone who loses a match - no more or less.
The disappointment of losing is huge.
I don't know if people understand - losing is tough.
It's the worst feeling in the world - losing, and losing in a final on the big stage is even worse.
My worst moment in football was losing that Champions League final to Barca in Rome.
Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.
I'm very pessimistic.
