Quotes About Defeat

In everything I've done, I always just hated to lose more than I like to win.

When I was a kid, I used to cry every time I lost a game, up until, like, the 8th grade. I used to go ballistic. I used to go crazy. If I cried, it'd be like, 'Ah, Chris is crying again... damn it... come on, get in the car.' All that over one game. I hated to lose.

I just hated to lose.

I hated to lose.

I was very competitive. I hated losing. No matter what, I had to win.

Winning was everything to me. I hated to lose.

I don't want to go out there and show up. I hate losing. Everybody hates losing. But I hate losing.

There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination.

That's what sport can do to you: it gives you a lot of heartache and pain, and sometimes the ultimate rewards.

I helped lead the effort to defeat communism in the Congress.

Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.

Politics is agony and ecstasy. The highs are amazing. The lows are excruciating.

The pleasure of winning at this football club matches nothing I've ever experienced before. But if you're going to get those ultimate highs, you're going to get the ultimate lows.

The job is always with you, 24/7. I played over 400 games as a player and the highs aren't as high when you win and when you're a player the low isn't as low when you get beaten. It really spikes and dips as a manager.

For me, if I didn't have my faith, the game gives you a lot of highs and a lot of lows.

This sport gives you the highest highs and the lowest lows.

I've been through the highs and lows. I know what it's like to taste defeat and it's not nice.

We have to defeat Hillary Clinton, or the country we know will not be the country our children and grandchildren grow up in.

But there are victories far worse than defeats; and to overcome an angel too gentle to put out all his strength, and ride away in triumph on the back of a devil, is one of the poorest.

All a man has to do, is to better what he can. And if he will settle it with himself, that even renown and success are in themselves of no great value, and be content to be defeated, if so be that the fault is not his; and so go to his work with a cool brain and a strong will, he will get it done; and fare none the worse in the end, that he was not burdened with provision and precaution.

If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.

There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.