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Quotes About Defeat

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
~ Ernest Hemingway
But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
~ Ernest Hemingway
If I ain't nothing but trouble, you ain't nothing but Nothing.
~ Ernest J. Gaines
Oh! somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright;The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light;And somewhere men are laughing and somewhere children shout,But there is no joy in Mudville—mighty Casey has struck out.
~ Ernest L. Thayer
Hay que luchar por cada bocanada de aire y enviar la muerte al carajo.
~ Ernesto Che Guevarra
The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.
~ Ernie Banks
We had proudly worn our handsome and colorful uniforms, which could be seen glittering from a distance, yet we could no longer see our opponent. Invisible marksmen took aim from long range and unhorsed us. If we managed to reach them, we found them bedded in a web of wires, which cut through the fetlocks of the horses and was impossible to jump. This was the end of the cavalry. We had to dismount.
~ Ernst Junger
well wtith a statue hermann cannot possibly fight
~ Eva Ibbotson
Winning, to me, is relief; losing is like dying. It's gut-wrenching.
~ Ben Howland
I don't want to be remembered as a beaten champion.
~ Rocky Marciano
A rematch is one of those things that will always be there when you remove a champion, and it's something you definitely need to give them - that chance for a rematch. That's the only way to do it.
~ Holly Holm
I've said this before, but I need to repeat it again: Nothing impresses me more than when MMA fighters handle a particularly tough defeat with grace and class.
~ Ariel Helwani
When I joined Labour in 1982, I didn't feel I belonged to a party born to power. My repeated experience was of bitter and repeated defeats.
~ Douglas Alexander
Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, said that Republicans' number one priority was the defeat of President Obama.
~ Steny Hoyer
When Democrats lose, they're pathetic. When Republicans lose, they're bitter and mean.
~ Timothy Noah
If Republicans are defeated in 2008, God help us all because Radical Islamic fascists will do anything by any means necessary to rid the world of the 'infidels': the enemy. In their eyes, that is America.
~ Angela McGlowan
There's a difference between hurting when you lose and being a bad loser. You don't compete at the highest level of sport to feel comfortable about losing, but you behave in a civil way when it goes wrong because that is the flip side.
~ Sebastian Coe
What hurts most is whenever I am leading, and then I lose the match, it is disappointing, and there are so many such matches.
~ P. V. Sindhu
Losing hurts me.
~ Chris Evert
It hurts like hell when you come into a contest and you end up being second best.
~ Alastair Cook
Trent Alexander-Arnold
~ Every defeat hurts.
Every game that you lose it hurts, but especially when you lead 2-1, and you lose 4-2.
~ Hugo Lloris
It hurts to lose night after night.
~ Larry Johnson