“I think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.com
“If we lose, I want all of us to be unhappy, no one to have any fun, and expect only what is reserved for losers but take it with dignity while planning to come back.”— Bear Bryant, chattanoogan.com
“If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.”— Bear Bryant, amazon.com
“Winning and losing, that's never been my objective. It's my hope that in the fullness of time, the majority of the court will is come to see things as I do.”— Antonin Scalia, amazon.com
“Losing is a learning experience. It teaches you humility. It teaches you to work harder. It’s also a powerful motivator.”— Yogi Berra, amazon.com
“I’d rather be at the top of the list than the bottom, let’s put it that way.”— Bill Belichick, blog.sfgate.com
“Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.”— Jackie Robinson, jackierobinson.com
“You win a few, you lose a few. Some get rained out. But you got to dress for all of them.”— Satchel Paige, satchelpaige.com
“The game is rigged, but you cannot lose if you do not play.”— David Simon, Marla Daniels, Maria Broom, imdb.com
“I am competitive and I feel bad when we lose. You can see it in me when we've lost. I'm in a bad way. I don't like to talk to anyone.”— Lionel Messi, content.time.com
“I have cried a lot. People that know me or work with me knows, I don’t want to say that I'm bad at losing, but when a person gets angry, it's normal. The last time I cry was when I won the champions. It was one of the best moments in my life.”— Cristiano Ronaldo, bleacherreport.com
“Winning doesn't mean anything unless someone else loses, which means you're here to be the loser.”— Lisa Joy, Jonathan Nolan, The Man in Black, Ed Harris, imdb.com
“We can always stick together when we are losing, but tend to find means of breaking up when we’re winning. In Grace under Pressure.”— Thurgood Marshall, thurgoodmarshall.com
“It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com