Quotes for Losers

I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose!
WOODROW WILSON

You can't blame your opponents for applying a strategy that beats your brains out with regularity.
BILL CLINTON

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

Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
GALEAZZO CIANO

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing your grandmother with her teeth out.
GEORGE BRETT

As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain; if thou hast lost thy wealth, thou hast lost some trouble with it; if thou art degraded from thy honor, thou art likewise freed from the stroke of envy; if sickness hath blurred thy beauty, it hath delivered thee from pride. Set the allowance against the loss, and thou shalt find no loss great; he loses little or nothing, that reserves himself.
FRANCIS QUARLES

I coulda had class! I coulda been a contender! I coulda been somebody! Instead of a bum which is what I am! Let's face it!... He gets the title shot outdoors in the ball park and whadda I get? A one-way ticket to Palookaville.
BUD SCHULBERG

I hate to lose more than I like to win.
LARRY BIRD

What makes defeat so painful is just the awareness that the other has won. It hurts to lose because it feels so good to win.
DAVID ROOCHNIK

The victor shall soon be the vanquished, if he relax his exertion; and ... the vanquished this year, may be the victor in the next, in spite of all competition.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it.
WILLIAM HAZLITT

Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.
GEORGE C. WALLACE

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

Nobody remembers who finished second but the guy who finished second.
BOBBY UNSER

Losers never know why they are losing. They will mention injuries, the officiating, the weather and bad breaks.
GEORGE ALLEN

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,

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,

It's hard to get recognition when your team is losing.
GILBERT ARENAS

In life the loser's score is always zero.
W. H. AUDEN,