Gracious Loser Quotes

#1. Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser.

O.J. Simpson

#2. Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the government.

John Stuart Mill

#3. I quit my job in the bank when I was 19. I took a chance. I went to Milan to study opera and singing. My father really supported me economically.

Marcello Giordani

#4. I'm the type to over-analyze everything. If I was to rob a house, I'd have a checklist to make sure nothing goes wrong.

Israel Broussard

#5. Show me a good and gracious loser and I will show you a failure.

Knute Rockne

#6. The threat of punishment at home or school only served as a challenge to figure out how to circumvent the consequences when I did what I wanted to do anyway. I didn't fear the punishment, I just saw it as an inconvenience to work around.

M.E. Thomas

#7. Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.

Margaret Cho

#8. Mourning is not forgetting ... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.

Margery Allingham

#9. Well, there were definitely elements of my rise in radio that had to do with my being black. But going back as far as Walter Winchell, Army Archerd and Hedda Hopper, legendary wags would grab a radio microphone and talk about what Errol Flynn and other stars were up to.

Wendy Williams

#10. I was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians.

Tommy Lasorda

#11. While the world piles fear on top of light, our job is to remember that light within. When we do, whatever seems to conceal it ceases to exist

Debra Landwehr Engle

#12. Their lead guitar sounded like what would happen if someone wedged a traffic accident into a blender.

Brenna Yovanoff

#13. Separate but equal is not equal, but it sure is separate.

Christina Engela

#14. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

Knute Rockne

#15. I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to understand in an inner way what is actually happening.

Herta Muller

#16. In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat.

David Hewson

#17. If I was a condiment, I'm gonna go ahead and say I would be Sriracha, because I go well with other things. I'm too much for some people, and hipsters like me.

Ike Barinholtz

#18. You learn how to be a gracious winner and an outstanding loser.

Joe Namath