Quotes About Victory

I can now successfully drive a stick. That's a huge accomplishment.

Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.

There's such a thing as retribution in sports.

I haven't had to deal with many negative things in my career. Now, I see, 'You suck. You lost to Tito.'

There was that feeling of standing on the podium and listening to someone else's national anthem that really sucked.

Losing sucks. I don't care how much money you make or what stats you put up. If you're competitive enough to make it to the NBA, losing is absolutely brutal.

Sometimes, I have to beat myself first in order to beat the other guy. And that sucks. I'm not gonna lie. But that's me.

What I really lick my chops for is when you get the offensive rebounds at the end of the third quarter, fourth quarter. That really just sucks the life out of the opponent. You can see it in their face, especially when you're on the road, it just takes the whole energy out of the arena. That's what I live for.

Devin McCourty

Game 7 of a Championship Series sucks the emotion out of a player, particularly if you have to stroll home a loser when it's over.

To anyone who has started out on a long campaign believing that the gold medal was destined for him, the feeling when, all of a sudden, the medal has gone somewhere else is quite indescribable.

I am used to coming in second and then all of the sudden finishing in first because nobody expected me to do it. Kind of like David and Goliath, you know. I'm not the giant.

I'm always like this after fights - I can't sleep, I'm only getting a couple of hours a night for three or four days then all of a sudden I'm wiped out for a full night where I don't even move.

All of a sudden, I started winning races. I was the king of Arizona.

I've been sued, harassed, abused, but I've held my own.

I had to suffer, I had to fight, and now I feel great.

All of us suffer difficulties in our lives. And if you say to yourself 'find a way,' you'll make it through.

Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.

The way I suffer after a defeat is not for all, because I suffer. I suffer. But those who know me know that, after this, I start stronger with more hunger, more desire, because I don't like to lose.

The best thing about football, and sport in general, is that if you suffer a big disappointment, then there is no better feeling than coming back the following year and doing well.

When you want to win, you are doomed to suffer conflicts.

If you suffer a setback but recover from it you become all the stronger as person and a fighter.

I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.

Few remember that the battle of Rorke's Drift was fought on the same day that the British Army suffered its most humiliating defeat at nearby Isandlwana.