Now that I've won a slam, I know something very few people on earth are permitted to know. A win doesn't feel as good as a loss feels bad, and the good feeling doesn't last long as the bad. Not even close.

Andre Agassi • Open: An Autobiography

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the joy of victory isn’t nearly as strong as the despair you experience in defeat, and those happy feelings after winning are fleeting compared with how long you suffer from a crushing defeat.

Fumio Sasaki • Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism

Here’s what most people think: If I get my goal, I’ll be happy. If I don’t get my goal, I’ll be sad. It’s simply not true: Pain and pleasure are something we need to understand better. Is there pleasure in NOT getting my goal? Yes. Is there pain in GETTING my goal? Yes. This needs to be discussed.

Dan John • Attempts

C. THI NGUYEN: I n games, for once in your life, you know exactly what you’re doing and you know exactly that you can do it. And then you have just the right amount of ability to do it. It’s a feeling of concentrated, crystallized action. For me, solving puzzles, or balancing over in a rock climb, or seeing a trap ahead in chess, this is ecstasy. A... See more

C. Thi Nguyen • Are We Measuring Our Lives in All the Wrong Ways?

If I’ve learned nothing else, it’s that time and practice equal achievement.

Andre Agassi • Open

Simply getting better at acquiring the things we want does little good. We suffer whether we get the thing or not. If we don’t get it, we suffer the loss. If we do get it, we still suffer because we know we will lose it.

David Cain • Getting What We Want Isn’t What We Really Want

"Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

Wilma Rudolph - Quotes, Death & Facts

Everything worthwhile in life is won through surmounting the associated negative experience.

Mark Manson • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Mark Manson Collection Book 1)

Here is the crux of the matter: When the mind desires winning, its fear of losing far exceeds the desire for winning. As a result, there is intense anxiety. Which, in turn, sabotages the individual’s performance. And often results in the very thing that the mind feared all along: Losing. Does this mean that this anxiety always results in losing? Of