It's awfully important to win with humility. It's also important to lose. I hate to lose worse than anyone, but if you never lose you won't know how to act. If you lose with humility, then you can come back.
I am proud of being a bad loser. Bad losers are winners. That is the way it should be.
When I lose, I take it very personally.
I was a different kind of player as a kid and didn't do too much shouting and screaming. If things didn't go my way, I tended to get a bit overwhelmed. All I wanted to do was cry on my mom's shoulder. I didn't know how to handle defeat in front of a crowd, and I didn't want to be the loser.
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.
In Spain, playing beautifully is what counts, even if you lose.
I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
It's not the end of the world if I lose. I try to keep it all in perspective.
Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.
If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
I don’t mind losing as long as I see improvement or I feel I’ve done as well as I possibly could.
I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.
Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser.
Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad.
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.
I've lost six different times. You can't say, 'Well, he lost, that's the end of the world.' You have to say, 'Okay, you lost, what did we do wrong?
I know what it is to win and to lose, and the last thing you want when you've lost is to have a microphone stuck under your nose.
Even if you win, or you lose, you have to respect your opponent.
If it is written for me to lose, I'll lose with dignity and give credit.
I make no excuses. Stefan Struve was the man that night. He earned his win fair and square.
Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run away when you lose.
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.
Nobody loses gracefully and easily, but there is a way to go about it.
You have to control your anger - you can't be a baby when you lose.
I will not accept an election result that is not my own victory.
