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Quotes About Losing

On the field I'm trying to play for the glory of God but then also I'm trying to give everything I have and win and compete. And so I think more than just winning or losing, I think He cares about where our hearts are when we're playing.
~ Tim Tebow
The mind is absolutely instrumental in achieving results, even for athletes. Sports psychology is a very small part, but it's extremely important when you're winning and losing races by hundredths and even thousandths of a second.
~ Michael Johnson
When you're winning, you're a hero. When you're losing, you're a bum... I'm as bad as the fans, believe me. If they only knew how I hate losing and what we go through to try to win.
~ Alex Spanos
It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.
~ Carol Burnett
The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.
~ Carl Lewis
I love winning, and I hate losing.
~ Kyle Busch
When I was young and didn't have money, I liked gambling because winning and losing was fun for the rush of it.
~ Carlos Mencia
Winning, I believe, is a culture just as much as losing is.
~ Kevin Plank
I love winning. Maybe it's more that I hate losing?
~ Dale Steyn
A winning player is nothing more than a player on a winning team. A losing player is a guy who played on a losing team that year.
~ Earl Weaver
One thinks that one is winning when we slap tariffs or introduce barriers to imports from another country, and we think we win. But you lose when you export because the other countries are going to raise tariffs as well. They're going to introduce barriers as well. So you win with one hand and you lose with the other.
~ Roberto Azevedo
For many in baseball September is a month of stark contrast with April, when everyone had dared to hope. If baseball is a lot like life, as pundits declare, it is because life is more about losing than winning.
~ John Thorn
Whenever I am losing, it's like, 'It's his fault'. And whenever I'm winning it's like, 'That's us'. That's the team, the people.
~ Marat Safin
Gambling is part of the human condition. I love it. I have the best time gambling. I've been winning fortunes, and I've been losing them.
~ Jerry Lewis
Politics is about a lot more than winning and losing. I think politics at its best is about compromise, shades of grey and about issues.
~ Matt Taibbi
Shoot-offs are always a lottery. Somebody wins, somebody loses.
~ Abhinav Bindra
Well, Judy, I would hope in the new year, we could start thinking about politics not like it was the Super Bowl, where you always have to have one team that wins and the other team has to be a loser.
~ John Breaux
When you're winning, your confidence is through the roof, but when you're losing, that self-doubt is like, 'Am I doing the right thing?'
~ Tito Ortiz
Some writers thrive on the contact with the commerce of success; others are corrupted by it. Perhaps, like losing one's virginity,it is not as bad (or as good) as one feared it was going to be.
~ V. S. Pritchett
A fear of losing, of failure is a fear of success.
~ T Jay Taylor
I haven't lost a battle yet but I am tensefor the first losing.
~ John Berryman
Well, Judy, I would hope in the new year, we could start thinking about politics not like it was the Super Bowl, where you always have to have one team that wins and the other team has to be a loser.
~ John Breaux
If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser.
~ John Donne
Now if I seem to be afraidTo live the life that I have made in songWell it's just that I've been losing so long.
~ Jackson Browne