Quotes About Defeat

Our foe is defeated and waiting to be utterly destroyed. His present flurry of fury is actually a sign he knows his time is short.

You can't win all the time. There are guys out there who are better than you.

Defeat exists but not suffering. A true warrior knows that when he loses a battle, he is improving the skill with which he wields a sword. He will be able to fight more skilfullly next time.

I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten-the only time I have been beaten by the people.

I'm pulling out, and I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that's the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger.

God somehow makes sure that in international rugby nobody wins ALL the time!

It's easy to believe in something when you win all the time...The losses are what define a man's faith.

I hate walking around known as a team that loses all the time.

this time has finished me.

They whooped our tail last time we was here. So it's time for a little revenge, and show that Florida football is coming back.

Aggies have a really interesting way of admitting defeat. We've never been outscored. We just ran out of time.

Has anyone ever won an argument with you? (Syd) Just Tee, and I was drunk and wounded at the time. (Joe)

You may go a long time without winning, but you never forget that scent.

Deep, deep trouble. Can't rival the dead for love. Lose every time.

One-run games can go either way, and most of the time they do.

I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.

ForTime, not Corydon, hath conquered thee.

In 1960 when Pittsburgh beat us in the World Series, we outscored them 55-27. It was the only time I think the better team lost. I was so disappointed I cried on the plane ride home.

Every time a man rises from defeat, he becomes mentally and emotionally stronger. Thus, in time, one may actually find his self - his true, inner self - through temporary defeat.

In the country neighbor­hood thereabouts, along the dusty roads, one found at intervals the prettiest little cottage homes, snug and cozy, and so cobwebbed with vines snowed thick with roses that the doors and windows were wholly hidden from sight-sign that these were deserted homes, forsaken years ago by defeated and disap­pointed families who could neither sell them nor give them away.

Smiley always came out a winner on that pup, till he bet on a dog once that didn't have no rear legs, because they'd been sawed off in a circular saw accident. When the fight had gone along far

Now the thing for YOU to do is to droop your tails and go home and crawl in a hole.  If any real lynching's going to be done it will be done in the dark, Southern fashion;

Les jeux sont faits. Nous sommes fucked.

The bittersweetness of uncertainty: To win or to lose.