40 Sports Loss Quotes from Movies (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Sep 17, 2025

A selection of sports loss quotes with sound bites from famous or less known movies, as rated by our visitors, accompanied by short MP3 or WAV audio samples.

1 And I won? -You won! -That means there were losers. -I guess.

Quote from How the Grinch Stole Christmas

2 Contestants, if you hear me back there... You don't need to be number one as you amble down life's highway, but don't be last!

Quote from They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

3 We were so close! So close. We tripped at the finish line. Why?

Quote from Hercules

4 Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose, to accept defeat.

Bruce Lee as Li Tsung in Longstreet

5 And the current champion is in the last place one would expect to find him, which is last place.

Owl in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

6 It's hard to play on a team that always loses. It's depressing. I'm the kind who needs to win now and then.

Quote from Charlie Brown's All Stars!

7 We never win because you are fat.

Esqueleto in Nacho Libre

8 You lost today, kid, but it doesn't mean you have to like it.

Quote from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

9 I didn't think he could beat me so easily. I don't understand. After all, my master did say I was an expert.

Quote from Drunken Arts & Crippled Fist (1979)

10 And in this sort of race, there's no silver medal for finishing second.

Sean Connery as Henry Jones in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade