“As a tennis player, you have to get used to losing every week. Unless you win the tournament, you always go home as a loser. But you have to take the positive out of a defeat and go back to work. Improve to fail better.”

Swiss former professional tennis player

Stanislas “Stan” Wawrinka is a Swiss former professional tennis player. Born in 1985, he reached as high as world No. 3 in singles and won 74 quotes on the site. He won 16 ATP Tour singles titles, including three major championships at the 2014 Australian Open, the 2015 French Open, and the 2016 US Open. In each of those finals, he beat the world No. 1. He also won Olympic gold in men’s doubles at the 2008 Beijing Olympics with Roger Federer, and played an important role in Switzerland’s 2014 Davis Cup triumph.