Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

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.

The fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a read more

The fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

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

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

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that lost by not trying.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that lost by not trying.

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.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.