What do you say to yourself when victory is not on your side?

Joss.

Are you saying you'll be praying to the great Joss Whedon?

Better luck next time.

It's not whether you win or lose. It's how well you play the game.

fool me once, shame on you.

fool me twice, shame on me...

Wasnt that Abe Lincoln's saying.

I liked Papilion's attitude "I'm still here, you bastards" !

No one ever is realistic or honest enough to go past being allegedly twice fooled.

So here are the unpublished sequels to that famous proberb Rockhead:
Fool me thrice and I'm taking my drink to the police to see if you put a roofie in there.

Fool me four times and I'd bet you brain washed me you evil monster!

I say a dirty word. Sometimes two. Sometimes several--linked together.

If (by Rudyard Kipling)

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream"and not make dreams your master;
If you can think"and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings"nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And"which is more"you'll be a Man my son!

Why does life has to be a win/lose game/

I liked Spongebob Squarepants attitude "I'm not ugly - I just stink".