"I will never forget thrashing." - Maria Sharapova, after being trashed by Serena Williams in the Australian Open Final 2007
"You've got to take it on the chin, move on and try to pick yourself up." - Steven Gerrard, after Liverpool's Champions League Final defeat
"We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse." - Rudyard Kipling, British author (1865 - 1936)
"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it." - George Orwell, Polemic, May 1946, "Second Thoughts on James Burnham"
"Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure." - Knute Rockne, US football player & coach (1888 - 1931)
"No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room" - Muhammad Ali, three-time world heavyweight champion
"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, simply the greatest basketball player on planet Earth ever
"Fall seven times, stand up eight" - Japanese proverb
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The measure of a man's success is not by how he treats wins, but how he deals with losses or failure - Oprah Winfrey.
There's nothing wrong with losing, failing but of course, one can never have too much of it.
thank you for this.Somehow I feel a tad better.
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