Quotes About Perseverance

You have to experience and take defeat in any and all aspects of life so you can be better and stronger.

Every loss, every defeat is tough in its own way.

I know I can beat everyone that defeated me.

Any man can be defeated.

I learned not to be so bitterly defeated when my fiction took a beating from editors. I learned in advertising to color in the lines and have my work done on time and to make it the very best it could be.

I don't want you to feel defeated, like, 'Oh boy, why do you do this to me?' We have too many of those songs.

I've met quadriplegics who have lost the use of their limbs but not their spirit. They are not dark, defeated people.

Big defeats make us learn.

United should have won more than three European Cups. When you look back at some of those semi-final and quarter-final defeats, we could and should have gone on to win the competition.

Sometimes you learn the most from your defeats.

You're gonna have pretty bad defeats. But you've gotta be able to respond and come back in and compete the next night.

There are those who say that defeats teach a lot, but also learning to win is not bad.

A couple of defeats, and you are gone - that's the danger of World Cups.

I am powered by the defeat in Sochi, as I am by all my defeats.

I'll remember my first league title, my first cup, the Champions League. But also the defeats - that's also part of football.

I remember that in 2017, when we won everything, we started the pre-season badly, with defeats.

Unfortunately, defeats are part of the game.

I have kind of a personality defect in that I find the word 'no' hard to articulate.

Winning the belt is one thing. But you're not really a champion until you defend it.

The only thing I can do is continue to defend myself.

I defend just like my brother Todd lived. He taught me how to play defense by the way he lived his life. I defend like every game is my last game, like anything can be taken away at any moment, and that's what my brother taught me. That's what he always preached to me, so that's how I believe the game should be played.

I think the best way to defend a result is to keep attacking.

I'm never going to give up - it's part of my lifeblood to help, protect, and defend Israel.

I just have to do what I have to do. I have to defend my belt.