Quotes About Defeat

There's people that tried to celebrate when I lost that got nothing to do with it. That's not the sign of a champion.

If you lose, no one will remember you, but if you're the champion, they will always remember you.

What I've learned in life is that you can't always win, especially in sport, but you can be a true champion for everything you did to get there.

I don't want to lose to an average champion. I want to lose to a great champion.

At the end of the day, great champions can take a good loss and great champions can take a good win, just like they take a loss.

What is Champions League level? I saw a lot of rubbish games at Champions League level.

Nobody likes to lose a Champions League semi-final.

Not everyone can win the European Championship.

For as many championships that I've won, I've been on a lot of teams that haven't won one.

A bowler can make or break a chap.

I've never been one to chat about others without actually beating them. I don't get it, personally.

I'll take the accolades when they are there and I'll take it on the chin when things aren't great.

The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them.

'Salaryitis' is when you become so accustomed to that salary that you no longer have the gumption to pull out of the rut and strike out on your own. It destroys the nerve of ambitious, imaginative men, and bowing to it has meant sure defeat for more people than any other sickness, mental or physical.

If I lose a match, I don't get sad or feel down. But if I lose a close match, I surely have sleepless nights.

I am not surprised that this is a longer bit of work than many of us would have hoped. It is not where any of us would have hoped it is. And I think we need to give credit to the Republicans in Congress who have done everything they can to defeat every jobs bill and slow down the economy.

In 1961, an official U.S. commission oversaw thousands of events to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the American Civil War. All 50 states joined in, but not surprisingly, the biggest events took place in the 11 southern states that made up the defeated Confederacy.

Losing produces a weird reaction in me. I surrender all sense of perspective. It's ridiculous, really. All this over a football match.

The loss of the greater part of the American empire in the twenties had left no psychological scar, for it was lost in a civil war, of metropolitan against colonial Spaniards. Cuba was wrenched from Spain by defeat at the hands of a foreign power her press had taught her to despise as a nation of vulgar meat-vendors or to fear as a Colossus. It was the public destruction of the image of Spain as a great power which turned defeat into moral disaster.

Maybe we all get like this in the cold half-lit world where always the wrong thing happens and never the right.

He likes to humble our foes by making them seem ridiculous. As he said to me the other day, 'Kill a man, and you cede him honor in the eyes of the gods. Laugh at him and you shame him'.

More men have been defeated by reports than all the steel of all the swords in history.

He considered the importance of what he was to do, and calmed himself. He felt the dragon's mood and acknowledged it. It was a willingness to accept whatever fate brought, but without a resignation to defeat. Death might come, but with it might also come victory.

Warlords who fail in conducting war tend to fall from grace quickly.