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.

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

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.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

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.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

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.

If you are losing a tug of war with a tiger, give him the rope before he gets to your read more

If you are losing a tug of war with a tiger, give him the rope before he gets to your arm. You can always buy a new rope.