Quotes About Defeat

The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.

'Weary Willie' is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The cards are stacked against him. He's content to make out with what he's got. He knows he'll go no further.

I think polo players are at their best in their 30s. You've got the talent and the experience. You play with your head - you learn to lose and how to win.

The story of American pop music is the story of failure. The blues, country music, it's not the story of success. People don't win; they lose.

We've definitely been in a few positions where it's come down to the end of the race and we've been able to close the deal, and we've definitely been in position where we've lost a few.

It's hard to keep a positive attitude coming to work every day, feeling like you're getting better when the same result is losing.

When you lose, it's always tough to see the positive things.

I don't ever think in terms of losing. That's not even a possibility. I've been beaten once, and I don't ever want to experience that again.

When I play poker, I don't like losing the pot.

I lost to Lennox Lewis in a very controversial decision.

Most corners are similar in terms of how you can beat them.

I think the number one stat that is a direct correlation on winning and losing is turnovers.

When you're losing, crap happens.

I'm in boxing to be a champion and if I lose it brings me all the way back to the bottom, and I don't want to keep crawling back up. I'm too old to be doing that, man.

Football is a wonderful game which can be cruel at times.

Football is beautiful and cruel.

One person I lost to at 135 was the champion at the time, Dominick Cruz.

No damn man kills me and lives.

Dan Marino never won the big game. Does that mean his career is a failure? No, not at all.

Mustafa Ali has never beaten me in any way, shape or form. Singles match or tag team match, Ali has never beaten me, so that's part of why I'm so excited that he's decided to join Retribution.

When you have chances against the top guys, and you couldn't make it, then they take advantage of the game.

For myself, I believed that that 13th of March should see a fight to the finish, cost what it might! for if Bloemfontein was to be taken, it would only be over our dead bodies.

In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation. If we are fortunate, we 'beat' the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having 'succumbed after a long battle.'

What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.