Quotes About Defeat

He recalled Old Jack's words after he'd scored a century at Lord's: anyone can be a good winner. The sign of a great man is how you handle defeat.

Katrs var k??t par labu uzvar?t?ju. Par cilv?ka dižumu liecina tas, k? vi?š prot pie?emt zaud?jumu.

anyone can be a good winner. The sign of a great man is how you handle defeat.

First of all, it's life. You don't win.

Hell is an Eagles game, where the bleachers are always freezing, and the team is always losing, and my family is insane.

Let us play the game of life as sportsmen, pocketing our winnings with a smile, leaving our losings with a shrug.

How do you do it?" I asked her. "How do you keep getting up every day and fighting when winning seems impossible?" She thought about it, and then she said, "Men sometimes say to me: You might win the battle, Gurley, but you'll never win the war. But no one wins the war, Ryan. Not really. I mean, we're all going to die, right? "But to win a battle now and then? What more could you want?

They had watched him make a masterwork of scapegoating Jews for Germany's fall from power and persuade his followers that enlightenment, humanity, and tolerance were weaknesses—"Jewish" ideas that led to defeat.

I enjoy crushing bastards. So it is enjoyable work.

It was like being given a maths problem when your brain's exhausted, and you know there's some far-off solution, but you can't work up the energy even to give it a go. Something in me just gave up.

When I was in Minnesota serving in the state Senate and in Washington, DC, I did everything I could to defeat cap and trade. I didn't work to implement cap and trade.

The work of bestial degradation, begun by the victorious Germans, had been carried to its conclusion by the Germans in defeat.

Men hate passion, any great passion. Henry Cameron made a mistake : he loved his work. That was why he fought. That was why he lost.

So when they win, it's their hard workAnd when they lose, it's their bad luck

On athleticism, God knows no favor. It seems rather he is in the business of teaching winners how to lose and losers how to win.

I'm very stubborn and I don't like to lose.

We got stuffed 4-1, but it was just great to play against, it was like an education. You think you are half good and then you go and play against a side like that!

I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self.

I could also lose to lesser fighters than David Haye, based on the fact that styles make fights.

I think the only thing that happened when I fought Jim Miller is that I was a just kid, he had way more experience. I was winning the fight, landing punches and trying to get 10 submissions at the same time, and Jim Miller went for one attack only, a kneebar, and got it. His experience made the difference.

You can't succeed if you don't know what losing is.

Few revolutions succeed, and when they do, you often discover they did not gain what you hoped for, and you condemn yourself to perpetual fear, as the parties you defeated may always regain power and work for your ruin.

Sometimes you succeed and sometimes you don't.

I'm an intensely competitive guy who is driven by the idea that accepting mediocrity or accepting defeat is not the way you succeed in life.