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Quotes About Defeat

I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
~ Magnus Carlsen
It's a beautiful sport, boxing, when you're winning and everything is going well but when you hit the lows it really upsets you.
~ Kell Brook
The magic of the cup is winning it, or causing an upset as far as I am concerned - but it is not so enjoyable for anyone when you are on the receiving end.
~ Micah Richards
I guess people don't like me for getting as upset as I am sometimes when I lose, but that's me.
~ Kyle Busch
Losing in my home town of Sheffield, it upset me really badly.
~ Kell Brook
I'm human. When you lose, of course you're going to be upset. It's a horrible feeling.
~ Chris Eubank Jr.
That is one of my biggest problems; I do get upset when we lose and it takes me a while to get over it.
~ Leonard Fournette
The upside of a downward spiral into despair and defeat in young adulthood is that pretty early on, I was forced to face not only the foolish things I had done but also the stark realization that there was likely no end to what I was capable of doing.
~ Beth Moore
Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you're never going to defeat this pandemic.
~ Stephen Lewis
Every now and then you're going to get beaten, but we work hard.
~ Chris Paul
You are engaged in a work so spiritual, so far above all human power, that to forget the Spirit is to ensure defeat.
~ Charles Spurgeon
You know, a Communist's whole life work is based on complaint of how everything is done.... So if they ever get their country running good they will defeat their own cause.
~ Will Rogers
I am going to have to stick to the script. If I muck around with the words it will defeat the object.
~ Clive Anderson
The reason why I love to win is because I don't have to go through that feeling of losing. It's those times where I lose that feeling that will stick with me.
~ Manti Te'o
Winning and losing, it sticks with you forever.
~ Brad Marchand
I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing.
~ Eddie Bernice Johnson
The sting of losing is bad.
~ John McEnroe
Losing definitely does stink.
~ Jrue Holiday
No matter how well or how bad you play, when you have a chance of winning and you come up a little bit too short, it obviously hits you a little bit. It stinks.
~ Joe Flacco
They, astounded at the flash of the armor, and the swiftness of the charge, and attacked by showers of arrows and missiles, half naked as they were, never stopped to resist but gave way.
~ Arrian
I lost in the amateurs, losing a controversial fight that stopped me going to an Olympic Games - and it's not a nice feeling.
~ Callum Smith
Nothing ever stops me smiling, apart from getting beat in the ring.
~ Nicola Adams
All good sports reporters know that the best stories are in the loser's locker room.
~ Pete Hamill
With Germany herself falling, it is not strange that the nations leagued with her also went down to defeat.
~ Kelly Miller