Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

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

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

The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief -But the pain of griefIs only a read more

The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief -But the pain of griefIs only a shadowWhen compared with the painOf never risking love.

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.

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.

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

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.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the read more

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

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.