Carn Carby
Quote 1
“If anybody deserves a cheer, it's you. But that's life. Make them eat dust." (11.86)
This is Carn Carby, showing how to be gracious when you lose. Carby thinks the other captains are being jerks because they aren’t recognizing Ender’s win. What’s curious here is that Ender won the game, fair and square. As Carn notes, though, that win doesn’t translate into respect in real life, because life is unfair. (At least, that’s what people usually mean when they say “that’s life.”) So there’s some way in which the game is set apart from regular life.