John Steinbeck Quotes

Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.

When I fish, I stop thinking about anything else. But truth be told, if you want to declare victories, I can tell you the fish have won a lot more than I have. It's interesting that something with a brain the size of a fish's can outsmart us humans, who think we are el supremo.

Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot.

Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

I'm not the dumbest guy that ever lived.

On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'

I'm not going to hate anybody who beats me. But. I. Just. Don't. Like. Losing.

I am so smart. I am so smart. I am so smart. S-M-R-T ... Uh, I mean S-M-A-R-T.

Losing gracefully is commended but never chosen.

He's a sore loser and he lost the fight.

If you are playing bad you are going to lose here, on clay, on ice, or on the beach.

Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.

Say what you want before the fight but when it's done, you accept the result.

But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!

Winning isn't everything, but losing isn't anything.

I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.

Granny Weatherwax was not a good loser. From her point of view, losing was something that happened to other people.

Question is, are you bozos smart enough to feel stupid?

Losing is the bane and bugbear of every professional athlete's existence, but in baseball the monster seems to hang closer than in other sports, its chilly claws and foul breath palpable around the neck hairs of the infielder bending for his crosshand scoop or the reliever slipping his first two fingers off-center on the ball seams before delivering his two-and-two cut fastball.

All my years to this moment All my roads to this wall. All my words to this silence All my pride to this fall. -Songs of Sapphique

Greatest thing in life: Winning a tennis match. Second greatest thing in life: Losing a tennis match

The Olympians were a reminder that there was always someone better than you, so you shouldn't get a big head.

I don't mind people thinking I'm stupid, but I don't want to give them any proof.

I remember ones I lost [shot]. I remember the ones I won, but I remember the ones I lost, something that I will never forget. Did it ruin me or hurt my career? It taught me about life, how to take the bad with the good.