Quotes About Defeat

Anybody is beatable.

If that's the way the game is played, I don't want to play anymore.

My first game for City was at Wembley against Arsenal and I have a bad memory about this game because we lost.

I want Sonnen to feel ashamed of how bad he'll be beaten by me.

Every time you're involved in an Ashes series, as soon as it finishes at the back of your mind you start thinking about the next one.

Progress is possible only when people believe in the possibilities of growth and change. Races or tribes die out not just when they are conquered and suppressed but when they accept their defeated condition, become despairing, and lose their excitement about the future. Norman Cousins Americans

Jean Monnet: "I regard every defeat as an opportunity.

History's lesson is that bullies ultimately defeat themselves.

Today I fell to the ground at the pull of memory. There quite seemed a permanence to my defeat. And here I thought, in their profound tug-of-war, present and future would, by sheer shouldering force of will and superior numbers, win out over the past. How wrong I was. —Marghanita Laski

A demoness is helpless when held by her hair.

He didnt know what was defeating him, but he sensed it was something he could not cope with, something that was far beyond his power to control or even at this point in time comprehend.

We're in some real pretty shit now man! game over, game over.

La vita è fatta di problemi irrisolti, vittorie ambigue e vaghe sconfitte, con qualche momento di autentica pace.

It is a victory of shit and our defeat. Call it a defeat, but of courage, value and dignity.

The game can be won or lost, but not the player himself. If he has worked hard, he has improved his game and indeed his faculties; this happens in defeat fully as much as in victory. As the contestant is related to his total person, so is the finite self of any particular lifetime related to its underlying Atman.

To Win, You have to accept defeat

In the last 21 months, if you've learnt anything, it's that the state is back. If the free market fails, it's not because it's been defeated by state capitalism; the only people that can defeat the free market is us, we're the only ones who can destroy it.

Somehow this is what I wanted to happen. I was holding my ground under attack from my enemies, lashing out at them until they killed me, not giving a damn.

Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.

This was defeat. This was failure; a quiet, ashen world. True humility and obedience, where the knee is bowed to the inevitable, the ring is kissed without pride or restraint.

THE FALL No matter how high I climbed, Somehow I always fell

An enemy never seems quite as formidable when he is whimpering in chains, so that you forget how he looked sneering at you when you were miserable

Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it.

Human beings do not realise the extent to which their own sense of defeat prevents them from doing things they could do perfectly well.