“Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.”
“Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.”
“When you are winning too much, sometimes you think you should never lose again. I am learning to lose.”
“What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.”
“One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.”
“Losing doesn't eat at me the way it used to. I just get ready for the next play, the next game, the next season.”
“The first proof of a person's incapacity to achieve, is their endeavoring to fix the stigma of failure on others.”
“When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.”
“You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.”
“The fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser.”
“The art of losing isn't hard to masters; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.”
“No wise person should make known the loss of fortune, any malpractice in their house, his being cheated, or having been disgraced.”
“I'm not much of a golfer, I don't have any friends and, all I like to do is go home and be alone, and not worry about ways not to lose.”
“Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.”
“There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.”
“A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.”
“Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.”
“There is no doubt in my mind that there are many ways to be a winner but there is really only one way to be a loser and that is to fail and not look beyond the failure.”
“We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.”
“Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? is not this also a return?”