Athlete Quote by Lynn Davies Download Open image “Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose.” — Lynn Davies ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Athlete Life Life is Losing Sports Understanding
Sport and life is not about losing. It's about understanding how to lose. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Losing sucks but I look at more what I gained as an individual, as an athlete..sometimes in losing you learn a lot. — Uriah Hall Copy Share Image
This is sports. In sports, you win and you lose. That's the nature of sports. You can't get away from that part of it.… — David Robinson Copy Share Image
The virtue of losing is we get used to the fact that competing and to lose doesn't kill you. It just makes you stronger.… — Po Bronson Copy Share Image
Sport is about turning losing situations into winning ones. That's how you stay on top. — Dan Hardy Copy Share Image
Losing is a learning experience. It teaches you humility. It teaches you to work harder. It's also a powerful motivator. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You tend to forget the good things when caught in an emotional raincloud of defeat anyway. That's why all athletes need a regular reality check, giving them a sense of balance between sports and life. They need to be told again that life is for living and sports are for playing. One you do the whole time you're here on… — Jeff Kinley Copy Share
It's not just about a coach telling you what to do and just following it unthinkingly. — Lynn Davies Copy Share Image
If you have a coach helping you, developing your skills alongside you, that's when you're on your way to becoming not just a participant… — Lynn Davies Copy Share Image
It's perseverance that's the key. It's persevering for long enough to achieve your potential. — Lynn Davies Copy Share Image
You've got to be actively involved in the process yourself and you've got to listen carefully to what the coach is saying, take that… — Lynn Davies Copy Share Image
It's about somebody initially knowing more about it than you do but eventually you learn a lot about it yourself and practise the skills… — Lynn Davies Copy Share Image
You've got to be a disciplined person if you want to succeed both in sport and in life. — Lynn Davies Copy Share Image
There are hurdles to overcome in sport and in life. Sport is a very valuable learning ground for how to live your life in… — Lynn Davies Copy Share Image
As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman. — Lynn Davies Copy Share Image
As a professional athlete and someone who has spent almost his entire life in boxing, not a day goes by when I don't think… — Oscar De La Hoya Copy Share Image
I'd noticed him watching me for a year or so, especially when we'd play games where there was running or jumping. — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
I have no physical genius about me. I can't dribble a ball and run at the same time, I can't do lay-ups - I'm… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
I think cricket is there in Usain Bolt's blood. Since I got to watch from close quarters, it was amazing to see him run… — Harbhajan Singh Copy Share Image
I think what bothers us about fighting sports isn't the damage to the athlete but the fact that you win by doing more harm… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
I think life is full of challenges and problems. I don't believe that anyone is perfect. We all make mistakes. It's not a bed… — Nigel Mansell Copy Share Image
I'd never been much of an athlete, due to a physical condition I'd had since birth (unathleticism). Perhaps if there were a sport centered… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport. — Jason Collins Copy Share Image
I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
I don't want to say names, but there are certain companies I won't work with because of previous people they've worked with. I don't… — Alex Morgan Copy Share Image
