Winning Or Losing Is Not Important Quotes & Sayings

I have a basic philosophy that I've tried to follow during my coaching career. Whether you're winning or losing, it's important to always be yourself. You can't change because of the circumstances around you. — Cotton Fitzsimmons

I used to get stressed out all the time when I thought winning was important. I wanted to try to win and help my kids win. Once I figured out it wasn't about winning or losing, it was about teaching these kids about being men, that's when I started to relax. — Snoop Dogg

There are far more important things in life than making a putt or missing a putt or winning a championship or losing a championship. — Bernhard Langer

The mind is absolutely instrumental in achieving results, even for athletes. Sports psychology is a very small part, but it's extremely important when you're winning and losing races by hundredths and even thousandths of a second. — Michael Johnson

Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being unlucky or lucky, winning or losing. It is how we win, how we lose, how we live or die, finally, how we choose. — R.H. Blyth

A good balance of winning and losing is important. If you just win all the time, you won't get anything out of it; having some tough losses can be really important. — Andrew Shue

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life. — Chris Evert

I really enjoy playing with someone else and whether it's chess or tennis or games, I love card games. I love that, but I think there's something so important to gain from winning and losing and learning how to lose and how you can be better from that. — Hilary Swank

I didn't have to win, and winning wasn't important to me. Being world champion wasn't important to me. What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it. — Dwayne Johnson

Things that aren't important, that have nothing to do with winning and losing, don't have to be a rule. — Peter Richmond

The desire to maximize the number of winning trades (or minimize the number of losing trades) works against the trader. The success rate of trades is the least important performance statistic and may even be inversely related to performance. — William Eckhardt

People think, sports delivers a message. It's not just about winning and losing, although that's important. It's about other things, too. It demonstrates how it can say certain things about your culture and your society. — Gabe Polsky

About winning and losing: It isn't important, what really counts is how you play the game. About playing the game: PLAY TO WIN! — Robert Fulghum

I think it is very important to view life in terms of winning and losing until complete enlightenment has occurred. — Frederick Lenz

You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing. — Arthur Ashe

It is not important how many competitions you have attended, it only matters how many you have won. — M.F. Moonzajer