Quotes About Defeat

there's music in everything, even defeat—but

Remember what the pros say, "If you've got to lose, lose in front.

You are a bum, he told me, and you'll always be a bum! and I thought, if being a bum is to be the opposite of what this son-of-a-bitch is, then that's what I'm going to be. and it's too bad he's been dead so long for now he can't see how beautifully I've succeeded at that.

The back was something the assholes had never figured out how to amputate.

For a man who had wanted to be happy he looked like a man who had lost two pawns in the early rounds of a chess match without gaining an advantage.

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No era mi día. Ni mi semana, ni mi mes, ni mi año. Ni mi vida. ¡Maldita sea!

but the worst part is (like jumping off the garage roof) Eugene wins again because he's not even thinking about me.

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To Dobyns, the moral of this story was clear. The Inka, he wrote in his 1963 article, were not defeated by steel and horses but by disease and factionalism

Eight years before, after a tumultuous election campaign, Mallory had defeated an inept and unpopular but liberal President by tactics that people like the dean regarded as kicking a man when he was down: he had pointedly ignored an appalling personal scandal that swirled round the incumbent and dwelled caustically on the man's virtually unbroken string of disastrous policy mistakes.

You win some, you lose some. And when you lose, you have to pull yourself together and go back for more. Otherwise, the other side wins by default.

the United States is structurally an imperial project, it's in our political DNA. We're always looking for a frontier to expand into, we can't back down, anyone who admits we're overmatched gets sidelined and booted out of office by an upstart who insists that we can never be defeated, only betrayed.

The cross was God's critique of power—white power—with powerless love, snatching victory out of defeat.

I hit big or I miss big.

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

When you take a year off from football, you come back for all the enjoyable moments. When you're not playing, you miss out on all the highs, but you also miss these disappointments. But I would rather be in the arena to be excited or be disappointed than not have a chance at all. That's football. That's why everybody plays it.

Anyone can get beaten in mixed martial arts. It's the nature of the sport.

I like the moment when I break a man's ego.

The American story is a story of great moments and dreadful moments.

I'm glad I brought this course, this monster, to its knees.

If you lose, you are out; if you win, you are the flavour of the month.

If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.

Losing against rivals is always a blow to the morale.