Martina Navratilova Quotes

If you can accept losing, you can't win.

I am proud of being a bad loser. Bad losers are winners. That is the way it should be.

In anything, I always give my all. I'm not a good loser.

Win or lose, I'm going to leave everything on the mat. That's what gold medalists do.

There's people that tried to celebrate when I lost that got nothing to do with it. That's not the sign of a champion.

One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.

When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner.

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.

Every game I've ever played, regardless if it was pre-season or Super Bowl, meant the same to me, and I laid it all on the line.

I prefer to play and lose rather than win, because I know in advance I'm going to win.

The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

I always tried to win. I was as competitive as I am today.

If there is one thing that all players have in common it is that winning, competitive gene; the ability to overcome obstacles and fight for what you want from your career.

I don't play to sweat, I play to win.

It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

The person that said winning isn't everything, never won anything.

There's a difference between hurting when you lose and being a bad loser. You don't compete at the highest level of sport to feel comfortable about losing, but you behave in a civil way when it goes wrong because that is the flip side.

As a tennis player, you have to get used to losing every week. Unless you win the tournament, you always go home as a loser. But you have to take the positive out of a defeat and go back to work. Improve to fail better.

I've said many times, 'You learn to win through not liking to lose.' And that's what I mean by learning how to win.

Grantland Rice told us that it matters not whether you win or lose. It’s how you play the game! I bought that when I was young. Then I found out that it was a lie. America is about winning!

I always had that, even when I was a kid in a go-kart or when I was playing soccer or tennis: that need of winning. It was there all my life, and it's still there now.

If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.

Whether it's his beloved game of polo or his magical success in business, Norman Brinker simply does not know how to lose.

I'm a quiet guy, but on the pitch, it's different. You have to do everything you can to win and help your teammates.