A Quote by Carl Sandburg

To be a good loser is to learn how to win.

Carl Sandburg

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Carl Sandburg
American - Poet
January 6, 1878 - July 22, 1967

Learn how to be a loser, because it's important to be a loser to be a winner.

Sanford I. Weill

Ultimately, I didn't look at 'The Biggest Loser' as being my defining moment. I wasn't there to compete and win the money. I wasn't there to win 'The Biggest Loser.' I was there for my health.

Rulon Gardner

Start thinking positively. You will notice a difference. Instead of 'I think I'm a loser,' try 'I definitely am a loser.' Stop being wishy-washy about things! How much more of a loser can you be if you don't even know you are one? Either you are a loser or you are not. Which is it, stupid?

Ellen DeGeneres

I never want to be called a 'good loser.' Show me a good loser and I'll just show you a loser.

Stu Ungar

I don't want to be called a good loser. A good loser is still a loser.

Stu Ungar

There never was a champion who to himself was a good loser. There's a vast difference between a good sport and a good loser.

Earl Blaik

You learn how to persevere... to have discipline, you learn to lose, you learn to win, you learn how to not quit.

Ricardo Liborio

The Olympics is my favourite sporting event. Although I have a problem with that silver medal. When you think about it, you win the gold - you feel good, you win the bronze - you think, 'Well at least I got something'. But when you win silver, it's like, 'Congratulations, you 'almost' won. Of all the losers, you came in first of that group. You're the number one 'loser.' No one lost ahead of you.

Jerry Seinfeld

The most important lesson I've learned from sports is how to be not only a gracious winner, but a good loser as well. Not everyone wins all the time, as a matter of fact, no one wins all the time. Winning is the easy part, losing is really tough. But, you learn more from one loss than you do from a million wins. You learn a lot about sportsmanship.

Amy Van Dyken

You learn how to be a gracious winner and an outstanding loser.

Joe Namath

Very gifted people, they win and they win, and they are told that they win because they are a winner. That seems like a positive thing to tell children, but ultimately, what that means is when they lose, it must make them a loser.

Joshua Waitzkin

O God, help me to win, but in thy wisdom if thou willest me not to win, then O God, make me a good loser.

Robert Baden-Powell

You've got to win in sports - that's talent - but you've also got to learn how to remind everybody how you did win, and how often. That comes with experience.

Billie Jean King

I'm a pretty good winner. I'm a terrible loser. And I rub it in pretty good when I win.

Tom Brady

Mary Peters. When I was having my sulky, stroppy, bad loser phase I watched her at the Olympics. Sometimes she failed but always with a smile and good grace. She taught me how to win and lose, and I have a photo taken with her in my lounge.