Quotes About Defeat

One win, and you're on top of the world. Lose in the first round of the next tournament: you're back to reality.

When I play in a tournament, sometimes I'm feeling tired and don't want to play in the tournament. I don't want to lose.

For us, the Grand Slams are very important. When the Grand Slams come, you're thinking, 'OK, this is the tournament.' To lose there is disappointing.

It's the worst feeling in the world - to lose in the first round at Sheffield and then have to go home - because it's such a long tournament, and it's hard to avoid it. It's on the TV all day every day, and if I lost, I didn't want to be anywhere near snooker.

If I win seven tournaments in a row, I get so confident I'm in a cloud. A loss gets me eager again.

I remember far more shots that cost me matches than the ones that won me matches. That is maybe the way you think if you are someone who has won a lot of tournaments and had a successful career.

In regular tournaments, players throw in the towel occasionally for one reason or another.

Even on one leg, I thought I could knock Tony Bellew out. I was gutted when Shane McGuigan threw the towel in.

I remember as a kid watching one of the Olympic games, and I was cheering for a big track athlete. He was the favorite to win, and he lost. I realized in that moment the pain he felt was so much greater than the pain that those who never thought they were going to win would have felt had they lost.

We cannot bank our hopes on possibilities. We must put our trust in ourselves, in our capabilities and efforts and strength and preparations not only for our success but even to avoid our own defeat.

Trust always defeats every rebellion

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

and yet, the only thing about this year, he thinks, the only times that he has been completely honest with himself are on the nights he's spent here. Only among the crowd of the failed has he felt comfortable living inside his own defeat.

Unless we start to fight and defeat the enemies in our own country, poverty and racism, and make our talk of equality and opportunity ring true, we are exposed in the eyes of the world as hypocrites when we talk about making people free.

The winner has a solution for every problem; the loser has a problem for every solution.

If. A two-letter word for futility.

It is the hardest thing of all, the one thing that will show if you have the one true courage. To know that you have failed, that your best efforts have been defeated, to not be able to stand it, to not be able to go on and yet to go on nonetheless.

is great satisfaction," he wrote in his journal, "of having done your darnedest against tremendous odds… even if you are beaten in the

The next worse thing to a battle lost is a battle won.

How are the mighty fallen and the weapons of war perished!

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

I hate games I can't win.

Para que lo sepas, Lenny, esta no es una cita —Trish dice. —Entonces, ¿qué es? —Soy yo sintiendo lástima por ti, porque eres un perdedor.

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.