Quotes About Defeat

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

I just say to anyone in life or in sport, don't let defeat bother you and don't let no one say you can't. Stay focused and stay positive and keep working hard.

The far right was on the march in the 1930s, and we defeated the fascists through a great united working-class effort. That sense of unity and strength is what gave people confidence to change things.

I'm a four-time world champion, so I don't want to hear anything about my losses.

To become a world champion, to defeat Anderson Silva, to accomplish my goal in one night, it was a super surreal feeling.

The World Cup is a very complicated tournament - six games, seven if you make it to the final - and maybe if you lose one game you're out, even if you're the best.

The World Cup has special games, and losing them hurts more than the other ones.

It's a bad feeling, losing a World Cup.

Football is strange, especially after a World Cup.

Throughout my career, we beat India in many matches, but for some reason, we never managed to get the better of them in World Cup matches, and it remains a disappointment for me.

The World Cup has not been kind to us overall.

When I think back to the 2006 World Cup on home soil, we came close but nobody really expected us to get very far. We simply lost to a better team and Italy went on to win it.

My worst moment was in 2006, in Germany, without any doubt! The defeat in the knockout phase of the World Cup 2006 against Portugal.

One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.

I used to think nobody can beat me, and then Tim Sylvia beat me twice.

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.

Since the crash of 2008 and during the neoliberal retrenchment known as austerity, many commentators have muttered that the left is dead, watching social democrats in their timidity lose elections and respond by becoming ever more timid and neoliberal. They deserve their defeats.

If a guy hits seven contested threes, tip your hat off to him. Good game. But in most of the cases, that won't happen.

At Roma, it's not easy: if you win three games, you've won the league title; if you lose one, everything is bad.

It's not easy when you were so close to win the title and you lost it.

I'd have to say losing the title to Ali in '74 was the lowest moment in sports for me. It was the most devastating thing in my boxing career, and it still hurts to this day.

I beat Gilbert Melendez, and he got two shots at the title.

You've always six teams who are trying to win the title, and the other five have failed. But by word of saying it, it's not failing; it's just the way it is. The last two years, we didn't win it, so it wasn't good enough, but if now we win it, the other teams will say the same.