Quotes About Defeat

It's hard to explain, but it's a beautiful thing to watch in wrestling when someone loses in the exact perfect way.

On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'

A burnt broom that has had enough, and refuses to burn further...

Il en voulait à Emma de cette victoire permanente. Il s'efforçait même à ne pas la chérir; puis, au craquement de ses bottines, il se sentait lâche, comme les ivrognes à la vue des liqueurs fortes.

Se simÈ›ea prins? ca un animal în lanÈ›, aruncat? cu mâinile legate înaintea acestui b?rbat care o învinsese, o cucerise numai prin mustaÈ›a È™i prin str?lucirea ochilor s?i.

Only the victors have stories to tell. We, the vanquished, were all cowards and weaklings by then, whose memories, fears, and enthusiasms should not be remembered.

Only victors have stories to tell, we the vanquished were then thought of as cowards and weaklings whose memories and fears should not be remembered.

Winners will be losers if they don't support the losers.

Out of the slaughter of some 20,000 Communards, out of military defeat and economic collapse, what had in fact emerged was a regime whose capacity for government had been doubtful from its inception. So much, indeed, was this the case that within three years a society brought to the brink of ruin was clamoring for a dictator.

Under normal circumstances the liar is defeated by reality, for which there is no substitute; no matter how large the tissue of falsehood that an experienced liar has to offer, it will never be large enough, even if he enlists the help of computers, to cover the immensity of factuality.

Either the victors must judge the vanquished or we must leave the defeated to judge themselves. (Robert H. Jackson, Justice at Nuremberg)

Antisemitism first flared up in Prussia immediately after the defeat by Napoleon in 1807, when the "Reformers" changed the political structure so that the nobility lost its privileges and the middle classes won their freedom to develop.

The extermination machinery had been planned and perfected in all its details long before the horror of war struck Germany herself, and its intricate bureaucracy functioned with the same unwavering precision in the years of easy victory as in those last years of predictable defeat.

There are two people in a tennis match. One ends up winning, one ends up losing. And I think the pleasure comes not from winning. I think the pleasure comes from beating someone." She scrunched up her face like a very puzzled child. "Why is that something we admire? We call them winners, but when you think about it, they really get off on making someone else lose. Why is that something we admire so much?" "That's

When you're in a bad situation, when you're losing, every day is tough.

To beat Serena, she's world No. 1, so it's always tough to beat someone like this. She's never giving up. Even if she's losing, not playing her best, it's always tough to beat girls like this.

It's definitely a tough blow to your morale to get fired.

This sport is so tough and fighters start out with the same goal but very, very few get to achieve it.

Losses are always bad. They're always tough. Doesn't matter what year.

It's tough to lose, but it's a lot tougher to lose knowing how good it is to win, how good it feels to win.

Dealing with my first pro loss was the toughest adversity of my career.

That's the toughest part about coaching, I think, is that the longer you're in it, the more winning becomes, 'Phew, I'm glad we won,' and the losing is like just the most brutal thing ever.

Meldrick Taylor deserves the rematch. He gave me the toughest fight of my career.

It's always a terrible feeling knowing that you're about to go home from the NCAA Tournament.