Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.
GEORGE ELIOT, Janet's Repentance
Losing would be painful, but not as painful as knowing there was something else you could've done.
JOE TRIPPI, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
You can’t blame your opponents for applying a strategy that beats your brains out with regularity.
BILL CLINTON, speech at Campus Progress National Student Conference, July 13, 2005
Winners have to absorb losses.
ICE-T, Men's Health, Dec. 2005
You know what makes a good loser? Practice.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY, as quoted by his son in Papa, a Personal Memoir
Winning isn't everything to me, but it's a close second. Losing isn't something that I can just brush off and fake a smile to hide my frustration. It's that will and determination that I hope will get me where I want to go.
DALE EARNHARDT, JR., Driver #8
Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that’s a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there’s going to be a life after tennis that’s a lot longer than your tennis life.
CHRIS EVERT LLOYD, William Safire's Good Advice
Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
If you learn from a loss you have not lost.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
It's hard to get recognition when your team is losing.
GILBERT ARENAS, interview, Jan. 15, 2005
The media attention. It's only good when your winning, but when you're winning, it's great. When you're losing around here, you're a complete bum.
CARSON PALMER, interview, Nov. 4, 2002
Most private traders on a losing streak keep trying to trade their way out of a hole. A loser thinks a successful trade is just around the corner, and that his luck is about to turn. He keeps putting on more trades and increases his size, all the while digging himself a deeper hole in the ice. The sensible thing to do would be to reduce your trading size and then stop and review your system.
ALEXANDER ELDER, Come Into My Trading Room
Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.
That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.
RICHARD BACH, The Bridge Across Forever
The trouble with being a good sport is that you have to lose to prove it.
CROFT M. PENTZ, The Complete Book of Zingers
People always are encouraging about a terrible loss, so that sometimes the loser would like to strangle them.
GARRISON KEILLOR, preface, Lake Wobegon Days
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