Quotes About Defeat

Black hawk down.Black eagle up.

One who sharpens his sword before sharpening his mind has already been conquered by ignorance.

Good defeats evil most of the times, but sometimes in order to defeat the devil you must first become his disciple

When men lose against me, they always have a headache ... or things of that kind. I have never beaten a completely healthy man!

Boxing is a lonely sport and when you lose it's hard to take and it's hard to get over.

If you are a loser in this sport, you are a loser also in life.

You can easily get depressed. Usually, if you play sports, you think that one match or one game is very important, and when you lose it, you think your whole world is over.

In some sports, you have a way to come back through repechage but in the game of life, there is no such thing.

I've just been in a lot of big fights, and I've been in some good spots and some bad spots.

Maybe during the last sprint, sometimes you can lose, sometimes you can gain.

Nothing's worse than a guy who loses fair and square and then whines about it.

I'm not saying Gustafsson isn't a champion. He's not the champion that I am. He's not a champion at all. I've won the belt seven times. He got tapped out by Phil Davis and lost to me fair and square. This guy gets so much praise. Having a close fight with me was the greatest thing he's ever done.

Typically, I would say that I'm not defined by one loss and I'm not defined by one win. But I'd be lying if I told you I didn't harp on the loss at Madison Square Garden.

People said I was tanking, but Billie Jean beat me fair and square.

There is no question that the Islamic State will be defeated in Mosul; the real question is what comes afterward. Can the post-Islamic State effort resolve the squabbling likely to arise over numerous issues and bring lasting stability to one of Iraq's most diverse and challenging provinces? Failure to do so could lead to ISIS 3.0.

I hated losing. Being defeated made me sick, I couldn't stand it.

It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.

Go to a Cubs game and see how many people are in the stands, because when you can't win, nobody cares anymore.

If a man coaches himself, then he has only himself to blame when he is beaten.

Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted surviving bastards the satisfaction of his death.

Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.

Of all man's inborn dispositions there is none more heroic than the love in him. Everything else accepts defeat and dies, but love will fight no-love every inch of the way.

All men are mortal, and therefore all men are losers; our profoundest loyalty goes out to the failed.

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.