Quotes About Defeat

I was hoping David Haye would beat the fight out of me in the second fight.

When you get beat it is the worst feeling in football, it is horrific.

It's the fight game, and everyone loses. You win some, you lose some. You just try to get back up on the horse.

There's no better feeling than beating someone who's up on a high horse.

I've won the Derby with the best horse and I've lost the Derby with the best horse.

No matter how many times you get beat, you don't mind seeing them get beat again. That's what a good heel is in our business. I think JBL did it just as good as anybody.

If Mark Zuckerberg doesn't understand something, it's not defeat. It's not even something he has to accept. It's merely a challenge he needs to engineer his way out of, and that includes human emotions and relationships.

I'll tell you what, this is a humbling sport.

Nobody likes to lose power or reach a point of humility.

This is sports. In sports, you win and you lose. That's the nature of sports. You can't get away from that part of it. And if you get too hung up on the losing part, then you miss the boat. The competition part, a game like that, is why you play sports. That is as good as it gets.

Victory gives birth to hate; The defeated sleep in anguish. Giving up both victory and defeat, Those who have attained peace sleep happily.

It's impossible to compete with the dead. I wished I could stop trying.

It's impossible to compete with the dead. I wished I could stop trying.

worries were almost physical beings, leechy creatures with latchhooks for fingers, meant to be vanquished immediately.

He doesn't get to win.

The bad guy wins? Fuck him.

Nixon lost an election on nose sweat

Only a conquerer bothers to honor a fallen foe.

Limper flopped violently. The gag flew out of his mouth. His ankle bonds parted. He gained his feet, tried to run, tried to mouth some spell that would protect him. He had gone thirty feet when a thousand fiery snakes streaked out of the night and swarmed him. They covered his body. They slithered into his mouth and nose, into his eyes and ears. They went in the easy way and came gnawing out through his back and chest and belly. And he screamed. And screamed. And screamed.

Our fans are great; our team is nifty! We're going to get blown out by fifty!

Our heroes are simple: they are brave, they tell the truth, they are good swordsmen and they are never in the long run really defeated. That is why no later books satisfy us like those which were read to us in childhood - for those promised a world of great simplicity of which we knew the rules, but the later books are complicated and contradictory with experience; they are formed out of our own disappointing memories.

He looked out over the landscape of baking earth and bleak iron huts towards the Scobies' house as though he were examining the scene of a battle after the defeat. He wondered how all that dreary scene would have appeared if he had been victorious, but in human love there is never such a thing as victory: only a few minor tactical successes before the final defeat of death or indifference.

Occupation of vast reaches of space means nothing. It is control of population centers and essential resources that determines victory or defeat.

Peace has cost you your strength," Bane declared. "Victory has defeated you.