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I have not lost an awful lot in my life, but the defeats have taught me more than the victories. Whenever I lose, I focus on the ability of my opponent and on the mistakes I made.

You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.

You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.

Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.

You learn more from losing than winning. You learn how to keep going.

You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.

I think that it's perhaps harder to learn from victory than it is from defeat. I think that we don't want defeat. We don't want defeat in sport. We don't want defeat in life. How are we going to be beaten? All right. We have to deal with those things. What's going to cause us to lose the game, whatever the game might be?

We always learn more from the losing than the winning.

The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.

I've said many times, 'You learn to win through not liking to lose.' And that's what I mean by learning how to win.