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Quotes About Defeat

If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot.
~ Martin Van Creveld
If you're mentally weak, it can destroy you. Some guys who look talented lose and never come back.
~ Dillian Whyte
Don't think our soldiers are weak. Give them a free hand, and no power on the earth can defeat them.
~ Rajnath Singh
Jaya Prada isn't weak and Azam Khan would know this soon. I will defeat him. I am confident about it.
~ Jaya Prada
In football, you can win; you can lose. The most important thing is the feeling and the attitude that you show on the pitch.
~ Hugo Lloris
Every pitcher can beat you, it doesn't matter how good you are.
~ Barry Bonds
It's always a pity to lose or draw at the end of the game; it's always painful.
~ Henrikh Mkhitaryan
One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat.
~ William F. Buckley, Jr.
There's a lot of disappointment when you lose a playoff game.
~ Joe Flacco
The playoffs, everybody gets a little frustrated. You lose, your season's over.
~ Richard Sherman
Every game is its own thing in the playoffs. When you're in them long enough, you understand. If a playoff series goes six or seven games, it's like a rollercoaster. Your emotions are so up, then they're so down. 'You can't do anything right! Then everything's going your way!'
~ Kyle Korver
I mean, nobody wants to lose. And nobody wants to be playing at the end of the year when you don't have a chance to make the playoffs.
~ Mike Evans
In a way, sometimes I was quite pleased when I got beat, 'cos then I could do my antics.
~ Jimmy White
For me, the path of failure exceeded by far the joys of success. My plight was hopeless.
~ Dominick Dunne
People ask me why I can still smile on the pitch when we're losing. I tell them that if you lose your smile and stop being happy, you should find yourself a plot in the graveyard.
~ Bruce Grobbelaar
Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to us.
~ Susan Glaspell
It just wasn't right the way they were behind by 25 points and then they're told to hold the ball.
~ Wilt Chamberlain
Scoring a lot of points is great when you win, but when you lose it doesn't matter.
~ Reggie Lewis
I lost a lot of judo matches because of points fighters. It was extremely frustrating for me.
~ Ronda Rousey
I remember once Manchester United were ahead of Manchester City by eight points and ended up losing it, so everything is possible in this life.
~ Henrikh Mkhitaryan
It's tough to lose and lose and lose and get a little closer, but you still lose.
~ Scottie Pippen
A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift.
~ James Wolcott
You can't get in the top four if you can't beat the clubs who are in the top four.
~ Christian Eriksen
If you can't beat me, you need to get some new coaches or something.
~ Roy Nelson