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Quotes About Defeat

We wanted peace. We did not care about anyone's victory or defeat. We just wanted the bombs to stop falling on us.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
I did what Jon 'Bones' Jones couldn't do, and that was finish Bader in a minute and fifty-six seconds.
~ Tito Ortiz
I lost my fight to Jon Jones because Jon Jones is a better fighter.
~ Quinton Jackson
I was 10 years old and my hero was a local fighter, Juan Antonio Lopez, who would fight twice for a world title and not win.
~ Julio Cesar Chavez Sr.
I'm a fan myself and I'm frustrated just as much as them when we get beat.
~ Steven Gerrard
I've never found a key to beat Roger.
~ David Goffin
So when you put the kick in and the other runners go past you, it's game over!
~ Michael East
I'm not making any excuses. I got my butt kicked in certain games.
~ David Wells
I knew that in fighting, sometimes you get your butt kicked and sometimes, you do the butt-kicking. It was always a matter of trying to learn and trying to get better.
~ Carlos Condit
I look at my own party, and I see that we've taken this technocratic, academic, elitist liberal class philosophy as far as it can go, and we got our butts kicked - and I don't know what else to do other than get involved myself.
~ Brianna Wu
When I knock people out, they're not getting up.
~ Cub Swanson
To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to get up.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Getting choked out feels a lot better than getting knocked out.
~ Fallon Fox
The reality is I'm not a 'get knocked down and come back harder' kind of guy.
~ Greg Giraldo
My wife and I were both very engaged in trying to defeat Trump. We knocked on doors in three states.
~ J. B. Pritzker
I've knocked out a lot of people so I'm not going to cry about being stopped, it's part of the game and I can accept that.
~ Jimi Manuwa
When I lose, I'll get knocked out. It won't be because I got outworked or outskilled or anything like that.
~ Justin Gaethje
When you lose badly, when you get knocked out and the ref has to stop it, that's when you know it's been a bad fight. But when you lose a fight having over the 12 rounds and you don't look like you've done any rounds, that's when you know it's quite good.
~ Dereck Chisora
It's never nice to lose 3-0 and have the ball knocked round you a bit towards the end.
~ Matt Doherty
Sometimes, you go out there and get knocked out in the first seven seconds. That might be one out of 10 times, but that is why we fight.
~ Benson Henderson
I've been knocked out and I've lost, but I've won a lot more.
~ Corey Anderson
I didn't stick with my game plan, I didn't take Rogers serious and the result, he knocked me out in less than 20 seconds.
~ Andrei Arlovski
Just when you feel like you get on top, something happens that knocks you down.
~ Dustin Johnson
I lay there, no longer fighting, since my head was spinning too much. And because I wasn't going to win anyway. And because I kind of liked the feeling of sensual captivity, at least by this particular jailer.
~ Karen Chance