Quotes About Defeat

He [Jimmy Connors] has one weakness. He can never say his opponent played well. That's why it feels good to beat him and that's why other players would rather beat him than any other player.

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.

All the world loves a good loser.

The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.

Not a good night for President Obama. He lost elections in Virginia, New Jersey, and he's not doing good in Afghanistan either.

A team sport is not very good for me, because I can't take losing.

The only good enemy is a dead enemy.

Victory is a good wine; defeat is a good university!

I've had good moments scattered since then, times when I thought I was better, but that was the last day I felt triumphant.

A winning team feels good and keeps winning. A team that hasn't won in a while gets demotivated and keeps losing.

I mean the only thing us dead soldiers got in common is that none of us was good enough or lucky enough to survive the fight. We're a host of failures.

It always feels good to win, it's always tough to lose.

I am asking all Americans, Republicans, Independents and Democrats, to join us in our campaign to defeat the corrupt establishment and give our government back to the people. It's going to happen.

History will eventually depict as legitimate the efforts of the Iraqi resistance to destabilise and defeat the American occupation forces and their imposed Iraqi collaborationist government.

Never concede the putt that beats you.

There is nothing so dreadful as a great victory--except a great defeat.

You can tell a great athlete by, like, not how many times he wins, unlike when he loses. Because that's what is gonna make a swimmer.

If you don't win, it's not a great tragedy - the worst that happens is that you lose a game.

If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education.

Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to do - unless we want to get more decrepit. I don't think we have to destroy the place totally.

Great happiness, and mingled therefor with bitter sorrow. It is not by enthusiasm but by tactics that we defeat a foe.

No one can know what happiness is if you have not gone through the disappointmentOne can only savor the victory if he has felt the bitter defeat.

I have loved, cried, been mad with happiness. I have won and I have lost.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it's hard.