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Winning isn’t everything but losing has little to recommend it

• Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it. Dianne Feinstein
• Winning isn’t everything, but losing is nothing. Red Symons
• Winning isn’t everything to me, but it’s a close second. Losing isn’t something that I can just brush off and fake a smile to hide my frustration. It’s that will and determination that I hope will get me where I want to go. Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
• Losers,  Loss,  Failure,  Defeat,  Winning,  Winners,  Victory,  Competition,  Pain

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Losing can be difficult and painful

• Losing would be painful, but not as painful as knowing there was something else you could’ve done. Joe Trippi
• It’s hard to get recognition when your team is losing. Gilbert Arenas
• Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy. Joe Paterno
• No one knows what to say in the loser’s locker room. Muhammad Ali
• People always are encouraging about a terrible loss, so that sometimes the loser would like to strangle them. Garrison Keillor
• The loser is always at fault. Vasilii Nicolaevich Panov
• The media attention. It’s only good when your winning, but when you’re winning, it’s great. When you’re losing around here, you’re a complete bum. Carson Palmer
• Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. Galeazzo Ciano
• Pain

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Don’t be afraid to lose …

• A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.  Billie Jean King
• Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it. Arthur Ashe
• You can’t be a winner and be afraid to lose. Charles Lynch
• You can’t win unless you try to win, but you can lose by trying not to lose.  Jack Campbell
• Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success. Rob Gilbert
• Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success. Robert Kiyosaki
• Enjoy the journey, enjoy every moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.  Matt Biondi
• Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause. Henry Ward Beecher
• Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated. Robert Frost
• It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle and makes a man invincible, and form those heroic natures that are now in ascendancy in the world. Do not, then, be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when defeated in a good cause. Henry Ward Beecher
• Fear

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… but don’t enjoy it either

• When you’re a winner you’re always happy, but if you’re happy as a loser you’ll always be a loser. Mark Fidrych
• If you can accept losing, you can’t win. Vince Lombardi
• I hate to lose more than I love to win. Jimmy Connors
• Above anything else, I hate to lose. Jackie Robinson
• Whoever said, It’s not whether you win or lose that counts, probably lost. Martina Navratilova

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Don’t be afraid to win, either

• A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning. Billie Jean King

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Losing is a part of life, even for champions

• I never thought of losing, but now that it’s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life. Muhammad Ali
• I’d rather win two or three, lose one, win two or three more. I’m a great believer in things evening out. If you win a whole bunch in a row, somewhere along the line you’re going to lose some too. Walt Alston
• No matter how good you are, you’re going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you’re going to win one- third of your games. It’s the other third that makes the difference. Tommy Lasorda
• Every man’s got to figure to get beat sometime. Joe Louis

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Losing can be a stepping stone to winning …

• Winners have to absorb losses. Ice-T
• They who lose today may win tomorrow. Cervantes (Don Quixote)
• Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you’re still trying, keep it up! You’re right on track. Matthew Keith Groves
• 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. Richard Bach
• In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. Van Morrison
• I would rather lose in a cause that will someday win, than win in a cause that will someday lose. Woodrow Wilson
• Winning,  Victory,  Triumph

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… if you learn its lessons

• 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. Richard Bach
• If you learn from a loss you have not lost. Austin O’Malley
• Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war. Donald Trump
• If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost. Zig Ziglar
• Learning

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Sometimes you win even if you lose

• There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win. Elie Wiesel
• Sometimes the best gain is to lose. George Herbert
• In the game of life, it’s a good idea to have a few early losses, which relives you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season. Lee Trevino

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Sometimes you’re sure to lose but it’s still worth fighting

• Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing. George Eliot
• There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat. Ann Landers

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Losing holds no disgrace if you did your best …

• Losing is no disgrace if you’ve given your best. Jim Palmer
• In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best. Eric Liddell

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… for in any game, there always has to be a winner and loser

• It’s not life or death; it’s a game and at the end of the game there is going to be a winner and a loser. Bernhard Langer
• 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. Jose Ortega Y Gasset
• For every winner there are dozens of losers. Odds are you’re one of them. Larry Kersten

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The line between winning and losing can be a fine one

• There’s such a thin line between winning and losing. John R. Tunis

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In life, just going for it is often more important than winning and losing

• You’ve got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing. Arthur Ashe
• Win or lose, playing at all is winning. Wolfgang Nording
• The next best thing to winning is losing! At least you’ve been in the race. Nellie Hershey Tullis
• There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that lost by not trying. Francis Bacon

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To win does not always mean someone has to lose

• Most of life is not a competition. … If both people aren’t winning, both are losing. Stephen Covey
• Once you get past the idea that for every winner there must be a loser, amazing things can happen.  Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval
• Contrary to most of our scripting, to win does not mean somebody else has to lose. Stephen Covey

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Play to win, not to lose

• I think we now come to the park expecting to win instead of playing not to lose. Eric Davis
• Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it. Chuck Noll

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Losing can become a habit

• Winning is not a sometime thing, it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. Vince Lombardi
• Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don’t like to do. Albert Gray
• Habit

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When you have nothing to lose, you have everything to gain

• Beware of one who has nothing to lose. Italian Proverb
• 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. Diane de Pointiers
• Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there’s really nothing to lose. Jewel
• Never compete with someone who has nothing to lose. Baltasar Gracián
• Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free. Paulo Coelho

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Be big enough to lose

• If you’re not big enough to lose, you’re not big enough to win. Walter Reuther

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When you lose, lose without excuses

• Win without boasting. Lose without excuse. Albert Payson Terhune
• When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less. Paul Brown
• Obstacles are challenges for winners and excuses for losers. E. Kerr
• Excuses

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When you lose, don’t betray an inward sense of defeat …

• Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat. Arthur Ashe
• We lost because we told ourselves we lost. Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
• Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. Josephus Daniels
• Defeat

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… for losing doesn’t mean you’re a loser

• Your ability to be a winner 100 percent of the time is based upon giving up the notion that losing at anything is equivalent to being a loser. Wayne Dyer
• When I lose a match, I know that I lose on the court and not in life. Gabriela Sabatini

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When you lose, learn from it

• 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. Richard Bach
• If you learn from a loss you have not lost. Austin O’Malley
• Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war. Donald Trump
• If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost. Zig Ziglar
• Learning,  Life is a university

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When you lose, pick yourself back up without losing heart

• Strength and courage aren’t always measured in medals and victories. They are measured in the struggles they overcome. The strongest people aren’t always the people who win, but the people who don’t give up when they lose. Ashley Hodgeson
• There is nothing in this life that can destroy you but yourself. Bad things happen to everyone, but when they do, you can’t just fall apart and die. You have to fight back. If you don’t, you’re the one who loses in the end. But if you do keep going and fight back, you win. Alexandra Monir
• Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday. Wilma Rudolph
• The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. Robert Green Ingersoll
• You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again. Pat Riley
• The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat. Sam Snead
• If anything, you know, I think losing makes me even more motivated. Serena Williams
• Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. Marilyn Vos Savant
• Failure,  Perseverance

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When you lose, be gracious

• You learn how to be a gracious winner and an outstanding loser. Joe Namath
• The cheerful loser is the winner. Elbert Hubbard
• To be a good loser is to learn how to win. Carl Sandburg
• The cheerful loser is a sort of winner. William Howard Taft
• One test of strength is the ability to take defeat graciously. Lewis F. Korns
• All the world loves a good loser. Kin Hubbard
• God, help me to win, but in thy wisdom if thou willest me not to win, then O God, make me a good loser. Sir Robert Baden- Powell
• Learn how to be a loser, because it’s important to be a loser to be a winner. Sanford I. Weill
• There’s nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it. Billie Joe Armstrong
• Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose. George Meredith
• Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The trouble with being a good sport is that you have to lose to prove it. Croft M. Pentz
• If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that’s a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there’s going to be a life after tennis that’s a lot longer than your tennis life. Chris Evert Lloyd

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Losing is no reason to get mad and upset …

• You have to be able to be a good loser. You have to be okay knowing you’re going to fail every day in something without getting mad and upset. Dan O’Brien

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… but if you do, don’t take it out on others

• 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. Richard M. Nixon

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Some argue being a good loser is overrated

• Show me a good loser, and I’ll show you a loser. Vince Lombardi
• Show me a good and gracious loser and I’ll show you a failure. Knute Rockne
• Show me a good loser and I’ll show you an idiot. Leo Durocher
• On my tombstone just write, ‘The sorest loser that ever lived.’ Earl Weaver
• It’s the good loser who finally loses out. Kin Hubbard
• You know what makes a good loser? Practice. Ernest Hemingway

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Losers use obstacles as excuses

• Obstacles are challenges for winners and excuses for losers. E. Kerr
• Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles. Robert Brault
• Challenge and opportunity are motivating friends of a consistent winner
• Obstacles,  Excuses

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Losers make promises they often break

• Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep. Denis Waitley

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Losers are perfectionists

• Perfection’ is man’s ultimate illusion. It simply doesn’t exist in the universe…. If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.” David Burns
• Perfectionists are the losers in the game of life. Strive for excellence rather than the unachievable.  Geoffrey James
• Perfectionism

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Losers never change

• A competitive world offers two possibilities. You can lose. Or, if you want to win, you can change. L. C. Thurow
• Change

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Losers never make a start

• The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers. Brian Tracy
• Make a start

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Losers fixate on the negatives

• The winner persistently programs his pluses; the loser mournfully magnifies his minuses. William Arthur Ward
• The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do. Dennis Waitley
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Losers don’t give their all

• Remember that the only time you really lose is when you’re not giving it 100 percent. Jackson Brown

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Losers live in the past

• Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future. Denis Waitley
• A winner looks ahead, a loser looks back.
• The past

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Losers quit

• You’re never a loser until you quit trying. Mike Ditka
• The difference in winning and losing is most often, not quitting. Walt Disney
• No one wants to quit when he’s losing and no one wants to quit when he’s winning. Richard Strauss

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Losers say “if only.”

• ‘If only’ is the excuse of the loser; ‘I can’ is the affirmation of the winner. William A Ward

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Losers are defeated by failure

• Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners. Robert Kiyosak
• 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. Kyle Rote Jr.
• Failure

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Losers want to be considered experts, even when they don’t know much

• A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others; a loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows. Sydney J. Harris
• Expertise

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Losers don’t master the basics

• Losers have tons of variety. Champions just take pride in learning to hit the same old boring winning shots. Vic Braden
• Mastery

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Losers are content not to win

• When you’re a winner you’re always happy, but if you’re happy as a loser you’ll always be a loser. Mark Fidrych

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Losers entertain the idea of defeat

• We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist. Queen Victoria
• The minute you start talking about what you are going to do if you lose, you have lost.  George Shultz
• Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss. Pat Riley
• Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses… on your powers, instead of your problems. Paul J. Meyer
• To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. Henry Louis Mencken

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Losers choose the path of least resistance

• The path of least resistance is the path of the loser. H. G. Wells

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• About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you’re fighting temptation. Tom Wilson
• All quitters are good losers.  Bob Zuppke
• All the world loves a good loser.  Kin’ Hubbard
• Born loser: The window washer who steps back to admire his work.
• Confucius say early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy but a social loser.   Confucius
• Confucius say impotent loser is one who can’t even get his hopes up.  Confucius
• Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose! Karl Lagerfeld
• Employee of the month’ is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same time.  Demetri Martin
• Everybody likes a good loser – provided it is the other team.
• He had a winning smile but everything else was a loser.  George C. Scott
• I never lost a game. I just ran our of time. Bobby Layne
• If at first you don’t succeed, find out if the loser gets anything. William Lyon Phelps
• Loser: Someone who wasn’t wicked enough to enjoy this life and not good enough to enjoy the next.
• Never bet on a loser because you think his luck is bound to change.  Las Vegas Law
• Once we were whining losers but now we’re arrogant winners.  Chuck Burr
• Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty. John Lennon
• Second Place: The first loser.
• Show me a good loser and Ill show you a loser.  Vince Lombardi
• Show me a man who is a good loser and I’ll show you a man who is playing golf with his boss.  Jim Murray
• These are the days when it takes all you’ve got just to keep up with the losers.  Robert Orben
• They ought to do away with divorce settlements. Instead, both parties should flip a coin. The winner gets to stay where he or she is and keep everything. The loser goes to Paraguay. That´s it. Suzanne Finnamore
• We all want to be the best at something. Trouble is, some people are only the best at being second best. Jarod Kintz
• What is the big deal about trainspotters I counted 27 of the losers today.   Stewart Francis
• Without losers where would the winners be?  Casey Stengel

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