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.

Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts," probably lost.

Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts," probably lost.

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, read more

Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other, everything to gain

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.

We lost because we told ourselves we lost

We lost because we told ourselves we lost

Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

Losing doesn't eat at me the way it used to. I just get ready for the next play, the next read more

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.