You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.
Richard M. Nixon
That`s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we`ve changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.
Richard Bach
Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses
Caleb Carr