Quotes About Defeat

Nobody loses gracefully and easily, but there is a way to go about it.

I know how to be a gracious loser.

Obviously it's very hard for everybody to be successful in the Grand Slams, so that's why some of the players, they lose, and they should not lose.

Sometimes you can lose games unluckily or the other team is better than you and has a great day as well. That can happen in football.

There's a great feeling when you look in someone's eyes and they have that 'look of defeat,' and that's what I'm looking for, and that's my game plan.

The great ones hate to lose more than they love to win.

That's a great team we lost to. It just wasn't our day.

I'll never tell you I'm able to come to grips with 0-and-16.

Make no mistake: we will win, and groups like ISIL will lose.

In competition, you see people who win and lose, and you have to learn how to lose gracefully. You have to be able to come back in the day and compete again, not hold a grudge, and put everything into the next fight.

There are no guarantees in football.

Jessie Vargas is not as good as those guys I lost to.

You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.

If you don't have the confidence, that's half the battle. You're going to be defeated before you even start.

In football winning games is all that matters, but a team like West Ham and every team apart from Man City are going to lose games.

I didn't know it, but I was at war with myself and I was losing.

Since 1688 there has been only one major war, the American War of Independence or Revolutionary War (1776-83), in which Britain has faced a hostile Europe without a major ally. It is no coincidence that this was the only one in which the British were defeated.

The Government finally decided To wage the war all-out. Defeat is Un-American. And they took to the air, Their women beside them in bouffant hairdos putting nail-polish on the gunship cannon-buttons. And they never came down for they found, the ground is Pro-Communist. And dirty. And the insects side with the Viet Cong.

Every man fights backward to kill others. Yet his victory comes not in the killing others, but in the killing of certain parts of himself.

What have you learned Dorothy? he asked her. Dorothy thought for a moment and said, I learned to be disappointed and not to hope too much. I learned how to be beaten and how to beat others. I learned that I am worthless and the world is worthless, and that love is a lie and if it's not a lie, then it's wasted. They learned you wrong, he said.

Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat.

Do not mistake your objection to defeat for an objection to fighting, your objection to being a slave for an objection to slavery, your objection to not being as rich as your neighbor for an objection to poverty. The cowardly, the insubordinate, and the envious share your objections.

If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

Sore loser? You bet your fuckin' ass! What on earth is wrong with being a sore loser? It shows you cared about whatever the contest was in the first place. Fuck losing graciously-that's for chumps. And losers, by the way.