Famous Sports Quotes

The agony of defeat. - Quotes about losing

Whoever said, “It’s not whether you win or lose that counts,” probably lost.  ~Martina Navratilova

Losing is no disgrace if you’ve given your best. ~Jim Palmer

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. ~Robert G. Ingersoll

“Alan Webb is the best thing to happen in this event, but professionals and collegiates don’t want to lose to high school guys. I don’t want to lose to no one.”
Gabe Jennings,

“When you’re having fun, you have a lot of heart and desire. Winning breeds winning. Losing breeds losing, and when you’re losing, you don’t think of anything else.”
Angelina Wolvert

We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.  ~Vince Lombardi

Most games are lost, not won.  ~Casey Stengel

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing your grandmother with her teeth out.  ~George Brett

Losing is the great American sin.  ~Jerome Holtzman

Losing streaks are funny.  If you lose at the beginning, you get off to a bad start.  If you lose in the middle of the season, you’re in a slump.  If you lose at the end, you’re choking.  ~Gene Mauch

In play there are two pleasures for your choosing - The one is winning, and the other losing.
~Lord Byron

Losers quit when they’re tired.  Winners quit when they’ve won.  ~Author Unknown

It’s not whether you win or lose - but whether I win or lose.  ~Sandy Lyle

If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes.  So, God is always the loser.  ~John Donne

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. ~Troy Aikman

The fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I’ll show you a permanent loser.
~O. J. Simpson

Show me a good loser and I’ll show you an idiot. ~Leo Durocher

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan

No one knows what to say in the loser’s locker room.
Muhammad Ali

When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.
Steffi Graf

When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that’s a big accomplishment… 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