“Winners are grinners and losers can make their own arrangements”

“Winners are grinners and losers can make other arrangement” is a popular sports saying in Australia. The saying sometimes begins “winners can laugh’ or “winners can smile,” and sometimes ends “losers can please themselves.”
 
“Winners are grinners; losers can please themselves” was credited to Australian horse trainer Vic Rail in 1988.
 
   
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3 October 1988, The Age (Melbourne, Australia), “The Rogue Show is back—proving a hard and fast rule” by Les Carlyon, pg. 5, col. 2:
Vic (Vic Rail, a trainer—ed.)came in on cue: “Winners are grinners; losers can please themselves.”
 
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13 February 1989, The Age (Melbourne, Australia), “Rogue keeps doing what he does best” by Les Carlyon, pg. 24, col. 8:
... when someone in the crowd yells: “Winners are grinners, Vic.” Rail flashes back, as though it had been rehearsed: “Yeah, and losers can please themselves.”
         
OCLC WorldCat record
Winners are grinners.
Author: Meredith Costain; Paul Collins; Jir̆í Tibor Novák; Marianne De Pierres; Justin D’Ath; All authors
Publisher: South Melbourne : Pearson Education, 2000.
Series: Spinouts bronze. 
Edition/Format: Book : Fiction : Primary school : English
 
Tripod
Round 5 Post Match Interviews - Wests Tigers V Melbourne Storm
Tigers new halfback Ben Black reinforces the old saying “winners are grinners and losers can please themselves.” 
Page last updated 21 March 2001
 
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Winners Are Grinners:
The Complete Guide to Winning Competitions in Australia
Mach N. Dinh-Vu
Pen and Brush Publishers, 2003
   
Tim Blair
There is a saying in football: “winners are grinners (and the losers can make their own arrangements)”.
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Like I say, “winners are grinners”.
Posted by: Allan at June 1, 2004 at 06:14 PM
   
BBC Sport
Last Updated: Saturday, 8 January, 2005, 17:39 GMT
City were ‘sloppy’, admits Keegan
Kevin Keegan praised Oldham after they stunned Manchester City in the FA Cup - but he felt his side contributed to their downfall at Boundary Park.
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“We had enough chances but I’ve said before that with the Cup the winners can laugh and the losers make their own arrangements.
 
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The North of England Home Service
By Gordon Burn
London: Faber and Faber Ltd.
2010
Pg. ?:
It was spelled out on a plaque which hung over his head: “WINNERS WIN. LOSERS MAKE THEIR OWN ARRANGEMENTS.”
 
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Peter Spida Everitt
‏@SpidaEveritt  
A great coach once said to me “winners are grinners and losers can go f$@k themselves, So after the GF Morningside is grinning and as for me
2:26 AM - 19 Sep 10
 
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The Power Within:
How to Create a High Performance Mind
By John Newcombe and Michael Duff
Sydney, Australia: Momentum
2012
Pg. ?:
An old mentor of mine, Archie Punch, used to tell me: ‘Winners are grinners, and losers can please themselves what they do because nobody really cares.’
 
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Nigel Craig‏
@CraigNigel  
I’m reminded of that old football adage “the winners have a good time, the losers can make their own arrangements” #awinsawin
7:19 AM - 8 Jan 12