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Quotes About Losing

A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins, and a winner doesn't talk about what he'll do if he wins, but knows what he'll do if he loses.
~ Eric Berne
You can't tell how much spirit a team has until it starts losing.
~ Rocky Colavito
Jose understands winning and losing are twins in a way. When you win you don't gloat and when you lose you don't go bananas.
~ Alex Ferguson
I lived to learn that in the world of sport all men win alike, but lose differently;
~ James Weldon Johnson
Everyone knew that the RNC had decided to field a losing candidate in November, rather than gamble on one who would radicalize its traditional platform.
~ Edmund Morris
I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
All the players looked absurdly inept, as though they were expressly drafted to be humiliated, entrepreneurs in the industry of losing.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
I can tell you that when I travel the state, when I talk to people, they are really struggling, in a very real way. They're losing their jobs, they're losing their homes, they're dealing with financial challenges.
~ Alexi Giannoulias
Donald Trump is already losing badly to Hillary Clinton. He is a weak candidate, and he's performing that way.
~ Evan McMullin
I like to play golf. You know, make a little money, lose a little money. Get 10 bucks, lose 20 bucks.
~ Glen Campbell
Scoring a lot of points is great when you win, but when you lose it doesn't matter.
~ Reggie Lewis
You have a losing team, you change the coach.
~ Mike Coffman
I'm a competitor, and I hate losing. Hate being down on myself.
~ Dwayne Haskins
The rules of comedy are, don't complain, it's a brilliant job. You complain, and you're seen as losing touch with reality.
~ Lee Mack
Of course, it gave the studio an enormous power, because I don't know any other place who had that skill with images to communicate with. And the need of these kinds of images are even greater now than they ever were because we are losing our life symbols.
~ John Hench
If the Islamic State is losing, if they are defeated in Iraq and Syria, or in Libya, which is maybe their most dangerous and most well-developed cell today, then they won't inspire nearly so many attacks.
~ Tom Cotton
In politics, if you're explaining, you're loosing.
~ Rick Perlstein
One day they won. The next day they lost.
~ David Peace
Winning or losing is a perception, but learning is beauty.
~ Debasish Mridha
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.
~ Jean Webster
Empathy is a losing game
~ Jeff Vandermeer
In the end, if you change the enemy enough, if you wear them down, perhaps losing is good enough.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
But losing weight for health reasons is a very dull prospect, doomed at the outset. Losing weight for romance, that's altogether different.
~ Elizabeth Berg
Other people come here worshipping Eustace. They want to please him, so they let him take over their entire selves, and that's when the resentment starts to build. It builds slowly, over time. What wears people down here isn't the physical labor but the psychological stress of losing their identity.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert