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Are any great athlete's good losers

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Are great athletes who want to be the best ever okay with losing even if they play well?? I am not advocating that if a player loses a game, he should go off on others, raise hell and generally be a very poor teammate.

On the other hand when you lose how can you be happy? I totally understand where Cam is coming from. Not only did he throw a pick 6 but he was unable to rally the troops in the fourth quarter to a win. Sure he did some great things but in the end they lost and he took it hard. So did I, and I didn't play in the game or put out so much in the effort.

Honestly I hope that he is pissed with every loss and doesn't get complacent. Whe I played back in the dark ages it didn't matter what the level, if we lost no one talked on the bus or plane back at all. No one. You sat there and thought about what you could have done today to turn things around. No cards, no jokes, no smiles... Misery, just like it should be.

My theory is that if you are a good loser just take out the good and that is what you are.

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michael jordan was pretty big asshole to his teammates granted this was a different time and way before twitter put every rumor on the front page

"He can't do anything with the ball. Don't give it to him." - Michael yelling at Paxson who passed the ball to Perdue

"You ever hear of a guy, six-eleven maybe and two hundred sixty pounds, a guy big and fat like that and he can't get but two rebounds, if that many, running all over the damn court and he gets two rebounds? Big guy like that and he gets one rebound. Can't even stick his ass into people and get more than that...Big, fat, fat guy. One rebound in three games. Power forward. Maybe they should call it powerless forward." - Michael ripping Stacey King a new one

"I hope there's a jumpshot in there." - Michael to Stacey King who was walking into the locker room with a box

"They don't need a ticket to watch you sitting on the bench. They can go to your house for that." - Michael to Charles Davis who was sorting through his tickets for his family and friends

"If you [pass the ball to Bill Cartwright], you'll never get the ball from me."

"Give me the fu*king ball." - Michael to Doug Collins who drew up a play for Dave Corzine

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I remember watching the 'America's Game' about the '91 Cowboys and how when Michael Irvin was a rookie he'd literally be in tears after every loss and when Jimmy Johnson took over he made sure to point out the players who seemed fine with losing so long as they got their check.

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