“Success isn’t determined by how many times you win, but by how you play the week after you lose.”
Pelé (1940–2022) Brazilian association football player
Humor in Psychotherapy (2007)
“Success isn’t determined by how many times you win, but by how you play the week after you lose.”
Pelé (1940–2022) Brazilian association football player
“It's fun to be in the game, and it's even more fun to win.”
Michael Korda (1933) British writer
Source: Success! (1977), p. 145
Context: Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you derive from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out. You may earn a good living, you may have a safe career, but you will never be a success. Find out what you enjoy doing, and your chances of succeeding will be dramatically better. We play the game every day, sometimes without even recognizing that we're doing it. We compete with other people, or other teams, or other companies, not only because it is essential to business survival, but because we frankly enjoy competition. It's fun to be in the game, and it's even more fun to win.
Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People
Ed Seykota (1946) American commodities trader
Source: Schwager, Jack D. (Editor), Market Wizards, HarperCollins (1989), page 172, ISBN 0-88730-610-1, Read it here http://books.google.com/books?id=jNG7r-Ul7jwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=market+wizards&ei=stanR4q2LKTeiQGMxbFo&sig=8NhAQMHBUZCiBzaJjF4o2ZcOGMY#PPA172,M1
“If I win - I win for all our people, if I lose - I lose only myself.”
Vasil Levski (1837–1873) Bulgarian revolutionary
A letter to Panayot Hitov, written in March/April 1868.
Original: (bg) Ако спечеля, печеля за цял народ – ако загубя, губя само мене си.
“The bittersweetness of uncertainty: To win or to lose.”
Markus Zusak book The Book Thief
Source: The Book Thief
“Win and forget. Lose and forget.”
Jerry Stackhouse (1974) American basketball player
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
Knute Rockne (1888–1931) American college football player and college football coach (1888-1931)
As quoted in Swimming World and Junior Swimmer Vol. 20 (1979), p. 57