Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true read more

Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot.

Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot.

Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.

Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?

I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing read more

I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up.

I don't think you can be a success at anything if you think about losing, whether it's in sports or read more

I don't think you can be a success at anything if you think about losing, whether it's in sports or in politics.

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.

That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed read more

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.