Funny Things to Say When Someone Loses a Game

Quotations

	If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain! — ★ 31 likes
	History is written by the winners. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor ★ 22 likes
	If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score? — Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American football coach ★ 20 likes
	There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐Romeo & Juliet ★ 14 likes
	If you fight you might lose; if you don't, you have already lost. — Bertolt Brecht, 1898-1956, German writer ★ 6 likes
	Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose! — Karl Lagerfeld, 1933-2019, German fashion designer ★ 6 likes
	Winners never quit and quitters never win. — Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American football coach ★ 6 likes
	One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer ★ 6 likes
	You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose. — Lou Holtz, 1937-, American football coach ★ 5 likes
	You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be. — Lou Holtz, 1937-, American football coach ★ 5 likes
	He who acts, destroys; he who grasps, loses. Therefore the Sage does not act, and so does not destroy; he does not grasp, and so he does not lose. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher ★ 5 likes
	It's never just a game when you're winning — George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian ★ 4 likes
	The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part. — Pierre de Coubertin, 1863-1937, French, father of the Olympic Games ★ 4 likes
	Every win is an injustice to someone. — Aristotle Onassis, 1900-1975, Greek tycoon ★ 3 likes
	Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is. — Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American football coach ★ 3 likes
	We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. — Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American football coach ★ 3 likes
	A quitter never wins and a winner never quits. — Napoleon Hill, 1883-1970, American self-help writer ★ 3 likes
	When it comes to winning, you need the skill and the will. — Frank Tyger, 1929-2011, American cartoonist ★ 2 likes
	You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer ★ 1 likes
	Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose. — Lyndon Johnson, 1908-1973, American President [1963-1969] ★ 1 likes
	Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference. — Lou Holtz, 1937-, American football coach ★ 1 likes
	You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. — Margaret Thatcher, 1925-2013, British Prime Minister ★ 1 likes
	Winning medals wasn't the point of the Olympics. It's the participating that counts. — Pierre de Coubertin, 1863-1937, French, father of the Olympic Games ★ 1 likes
	How you gather, manage and use information will determine whether you win or lose. — Bill Gates, 1955-, American businessman ★ 1 likes
	Gamblers and lovers really play to lose. — Lawrence Durrell, 1912-1990, British writer ★
	Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. — Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American football coach ★
	Players with fight never lose a game, they just run out of time. — John Wooden, 1910-2010, American basketball coach ★
	The day you stop racing, is the day you win the race. — Bob Marley, 1945-1981, Jamaican singer ★
	Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher ★
	A team that thinks it's going to lose is going to lose. — Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American football coach ★
	Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. — Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American football coach ★
	A defeated man does not become a good philosopher. — Jean Dutourd, 1920-2011, French writer ★
	Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate. — Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American football coach ★
	Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. — Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970, British philosopher ★
	If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat. — Simone De Beauvoir, 1908-1986, French writer ★
	Don't be tempted to ask, "Will we win? Will we be defeated?" Just fight! — Nikos Kazantzakis, 1883-1957, Greek writer ★
	If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize. — Muhammad Ali, 1942-2016, American boxer ★
	The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things. — Rainer Maria Rilke, 1875-1926, Czech-German poet ★
	If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. — William Hazlitt , 1778-1830, English essayist & critic ★
	A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost. — Terry Pratchett, 1948-2015, British writer ★
	The surest way to remain a winner is to win once, and then not play any more. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist ★
	Please don't ask me what the score is. I'm not even sure what the game is. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist ★
	To be sure of winning, invent your own game, and never tell any other player the rules. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist ★