Quotes About Defeat

Suddenly this defeat. This rain. The blues gone gray And the browns gone gray And yellow A terrible amber. In the cold streets Your warm body. In whatever room Your warm body. Among all the people Your absence The people who are always Not you. I have been easy with trees Too long. Too familiar with mountains. Joy has been a habit. Now Suddenly This rain.

Galatea Dunkel was a tenacious loser.

So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.

On the sled, in the box, lay a third man whose toil was over, - a man whom the Wild had conquered and beaten down until he would never move nor struggle again. It is not the way of the Wild to like movement. Life is an offense to it, for life is movement; and the Wild aims always to destroy movement.

I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.

Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.

In our sport, there's only two people, so if you're not winning, then you're losing.

George McGovern and his supporters committed what, in a two-party system, are capital crimes: they did not compromise, they took hard ideological positions, they alienated a large portion of their party's traditional supporters, and they lost - very, very badly.

Every player feels differently about playing football. We are all different people. I am the type who wants to win all the time. I hate to lose.

We will oppose and resist tyranny as we will defeat evil.

Tyson Fury should be looked at as someone who conquered the world, defeating a nine-year king in Wladimir Klitschko.

Mike Tyson notoriously looked for a way out against Evander Holyfield when it was clear Holyfield had his number. Suddenly, Tyson's cowardice in gnawing off Holyfield's ear overshadowed nearly everything he had accomplished as a fighter.

I remember when Muhammad Ali got beaten the first time. I remember when Lennox Lewis got beaten the first time, Sugar Ray Leonard, Mike Tyson. All of those were legendary fighters, and they came back, and that's what made them different - what they did after they got beat.

Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring. On the downside, you meet a lot of really bad people in boxing, at all stages of your career.

I guess we'd better start getting used to the consequences and permit the American liberals to squeak and squeal us to ultimate defeat.

Drink is the only opponent I have been unable to beat.

The DMK has been unable to defeat me.

Anyone can lose a fight. That doesn't bother me. But the shame that comes afterwards is unbearable.

I'm not immortal. I'm not unbeatable.

I really thought Tiz the Law was unbeatable.

I've played so many matches in my career so far where I played unbelievable, came up just short.

Losing has an unbelievably negative impact on me.

John F. Kennedy went to bed at 3:30 in the morning on November 9, 1960, uncertain whether he had defeated Richard Nixon for the presidency. He thought he had won, but six states hung in the balance, and after months of exhaustive campaigning, he was too tired to stay awake any longer.

To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one.