Losing Gracefully Quotes

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.

You've got to realize that in any competition there is always a winner and loser. When it turns out that you're the loser on a given day, you can be a graceful loser, but it doesn't mean that you're a loser in the sense that you're willing to accept losses readily. Concede that on that day you weren't the best and that you were beaten in competition. But that should make you more dedicated and hard working. It's wrong to accept defeat as a loser. Be graceful about losing, but don't accept it.

If you put everything, your heart and soul into a campaign, it might take you a while to come around to the realization that, you know, another person has won.

Sometimes, a defeat can be more beautiful and satisfying than certain victories. The English have a point in insisting that it matters not who won or lost, but how you played the game.

You're not supposed to be accepting trophies. You're supposed to be in the back being mad that people are getting trophies.

If I get beaten I can walk away with my head high, knowing I have given everything.

He's a sore loser and he lost the fight.

I obviously understand how to lose but always want to win.

My dad used to play every other weekend with me when I was young. I started getting better, but he could always beat me. Then one day, he realized the jig was up. And he stopped playing me just before I could beat him.

You don't want people to think, 'Oh, she was a person who was bitter because she didn't win.' You can't always win at everything.

Boy, do I hate to lose.

You can't win all the time. There are guys out there who are better than you.

I remember when both Gnarls Barkley and Justin [Timberlake] lost for Album of the Year [at the Grammys], and I looked at Justin, and I was like: 'Do you want me to go onstage for you? You know, do you want me to fight?

It always feels good to win, it's always tough to lose.

When I played Bobby Fischer, my opponent fought against organizations - the television producers and the match organizers. But he never fought against me personally. I lost to Bobby before the match because he was already stronger than I. He won normally.

Al Gore won the popular vote and didn't get elected president, so I'm not going to sit here and kill myself over not winning Defensive Player of the Year.

Losing a game is not a big deal, except you've got to make sure that you move on and get the next one.

The winner gives up his chance to be a good sport.

I'm pretty competitive. I talk a big game - even when I'm going to lose.

I don't like losing at anything, but it's not the end of the world if you beat me.

If you lose you better at least be entertaining while you do it or people will turn you off.

The greatest secret of winners is that failure inspires winning; thus, they are not afraid of losing.

I did everything I could except win. I feel fine. I just played bad at a big time.

Sometimes I think it's so good not to win those things. And, anyway, who wants to peak when they're 28?

I hate to lose. When I was a kid, I used to cry every time I lost a game, up until, like, the 8th grade. I used to go ballistic.