Quotes About Defeat

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

You can't let a man like this beat you.

Mercy is the mark of a great man! (stabs defeated opponent) I guess I'm just a good man. (stabs opponent again) Well ... I'm alright.

I have seen too many men go down, and I never permit myself to forget that one day, through accident or under the charge of a younger, stronger knight, I too will go down.

Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it.

We're in the money, the skies are sunny; old man depression, you are through, you done us wrong!

A Christian ought to realize what the weights laid on his spirit are. If he encounters it in the morning and does not deal with it at once, he experiences defeat the whole day long.

Losing the Super Bowl is worse than death. You have to get up the next morning.

Every time you lose you die a little bit. You die inside...a portion of you. Not all of your organs. Maybe just your liver.

Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field.

There is nothing more certain than the defeat of the man who gives up.

The most painful thing to experience is not defeat but regret

I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat.

The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world.

We lost because we didn't win.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.

As a sportsman, I accept being beaten. Everybody tries to be a winner, but only one in a race will win. It's fun to win. But I don't find unhappiness if I lose.

Most one-run games are lost, not won.

There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started drinking.

Good music always defeats bad luck

There's music in everything, even defeat

I wore glasses, no music, and I won - I think it was - fifth place. I got a whipping the same day. My mother whipped me for something. Destroyed my ego completely.

To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.