No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.
No wise person should make known the loss of fortune, any malpractice in their house, his being cheated, or having been disgraced.
Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.
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.
One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
Shouda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done.
Show me a good loser and I will show you a loser.
Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot.
Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
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.
The cheerful loser is the winner.
The fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser.
The first proof of a person's incapacity to achieve, is their endeavoring to fix the stigma of failure on others.
The minute you start talking about what your going to do if you lose, you have lost.
The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.
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.
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.
Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.
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.
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