A. S. Byatt Quotes

I remember virtually everything about every loss. And the wins are hardly memorable.

You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.

It's no fun being a loser. Trust me.

I don't remember the first time I won. I remember the first time I lost, and it sucked. It was go-karts; I was, like, 6 years old.

I just hated to lose.

You remember the finals you lose as much as the ones you win.

Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.

The disappointment of losing is huge.

In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.

Winning is something you've dreamed about and hoped for, so that when you get there it's no big deal. But if you lose, you're gutted, and the gutted sense just goes on, and I know what that's like, because I've been having that gutted feeling since 1979.

The wars don't end when you sign peace treaties or when the years go by. They will echo on until I'm gone and all the widows and orphans are gone.

They who lose today may win tomorrow.

Winners celebrate and losers mobilize.

The sting of losing is bad.

No one wants to be beaten, even myself.

It just flat-out sucks losing. It really - it doesn't feel good.

When you don't come up on the winning end of it, it is disappointing and you have to look at why that has happened.

What hurts most is whenever I am leading, and then I lose the match, it is disappointing, and there are so many such matches.

I remember far more shots that cost me matches than the ones that won me matches. That is maybe the way you think if you are someone who has won a lot of tournaments and had a successful career.

It's always disappointing to lose a final.

Whenever I watch any kind of competition, my immediate reaction when they call out the name of the winner is to look at the loser.

Of all the great moments at Butler, I still remember the losses most vividly. I don't know why. I guess that's kind of what drives you.

In my career, I finished in second place six times. I played on teams that were in it to the very end. It's frustrating.

No matter how you lose, you hate losing.

You don't forget everything that happens when you win, and you definitely don't forget what happens when you lose.