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Quotes About Concede

The only difference between the two groups was that the students conceded that they were influenced by the anchor, while the professionals denied that influence.
~ Daniel Kahneman
What one wins in a title is the privilege of magisterial speech. The privilege of magisterial speech is the highest honor attaching to any title. We expect the first act of a winner to be a speech. The first act of the loser may also be a speech, but it will be a speech to concede victory, to declare there will be no further challenge to the winner. It is a speech that promises to silence the loser's voice.
~ James P. Carse
A hundred years of scholarly thinking has stretched back a millionfold the age of the earth. But these same divines, antiquarians and scholars are thinking now as they did a hundred years ago, when it comes to the age of civilisations; they can't even begin to concede that civilisations might have very old histories.
~ Doris Lessing
Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield.
~ Aesop
The best goalkeeper I played with at United was Schmeichel. He was a phenomenon in training, never mind on match days. He just never wanted to concede, and he would do everything to stop you scoring.
~ Paul Scholes
If you concede early against a quality team, you have to play more openly - and can get picked off.
~ Lothar Matthaus
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
~ Frederick Douglass
In the words of Frederick Douglas, power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will. We must be that demand. We are the ones we've been waiting for.
~ Jill Stein
When you concede in less than two minutes, it changes completely everything.
~ Mauricio Pochettino
To go and watch Manchester United, whether it's home or away, is entertainment; it's goals - whether you concede goals or whether you can score goals.
~ Paul Scholes
You can make loads of great saves, but if you concede, it's, 'That's what we will show the world.'
~ Karen Bardsley
The more goals you concede ultimately results in the bottom three, not the more goals you score.
~ Sam Allardyce
United's history was built on attacking football, which does not always mean that the team kept clean sheets or did not concede chances.
~ Paul Scholes
If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
~ David W. Blight
You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
~ Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
My first mind-set when I am out on the field is to defend well and not concede.
~ Naby Keita
If you have a game where you're under pressure, obviously there are going to be a lot of shots on target, and you're going to make saves, but you can't say you played well in a game where you concede five goals. It's ridiculous.
~ Wojciech Szczesny
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will";
~ Robert A. Caro
And yet one can't forever stand on the shore; at some point, even if filled with indecision, skepticism, reservation and doubt, you either jump in or concede that life is forever elsewhere.
~ Arthur Miller
It is always disappointing to obviously concede.
~ Ashley Young
Afterward Reacher conceded that if a guy his own age had said it, he would have hit him right away, bang, before the last word had even died away to silence, because why let a guy who wants to start a fight do so on his own schedule? But this was a kid, and compassion demanded at least one do-over.
~ Lee Child
Now, I cannot for one instant believe you so devoid of gallantry as to refuse a lady your escort when she even condescends to ask you for it.
~ Alexandre Dumas
But sometimes you lose. Nothing you can do but admit it. -Eli
~ Sarah Dessen
Desde la debilidad se cede y desde la fortaleza se concede.
~ Antoni Bolinches