Quotes About Defeat

As the game enters its glorious final weeks, the chill of fall signals the reality of defeat for all but one team. The fields of play will turn brown and harden, the snow will fall, but in the heart of the fan sprouts a sprig of green.

It wasn't my plan to create such a record. All I did was put in the effort to win every match I played and it went on for weeks, months and years until my defeat to Ross Norman in Toulouse in 1986.

I had a good chance when I went to Beijing and the guy who beat me, I'd beaten him three weeks before and he went on to win silver.

One of the things I like best about 'Biggest Loser' is being around people who are trying to make the right choices. When you feel defeated about your weight and your health, like there's no hope, and you still make the choice to fight for it, to make the change happen no matter what people say or think, that's inspiring to me.

In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our weird little creative circle, no one cares who has faster fists, but to lose an argument suggests inferior intelligence.

Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

India has indeed a great and free future before her, in which she can make her special contribution to the well-being of mankind. The first and indispensable part of that contribution is to work with the United Nations for the defeat of fascism and of brutal aggression.

The West only talks about how you can militarily defeat the terrorists, but terrorists are very difficult to defeat because they can appear anywhere.

In the Premier League the big clubs can lose and drop points. Games that are supposed to be easy are never easy.

We all like being part of the Premier League. There is a lot of attention and we enjoy that but football is always the same. If you win, you have friends. If you don't win, you are looking for friends. That's the game.

It is more difficult for any coach to work in the Premier League than any other league. You can lose or win against any team.

Everything about the Premier League is wonderful, even when you get beat.

There is no shorter road to defeat than by entering a war with inadequate preparation.

I used to hear other boxers talk about levels and it used to frustrate me. But now I understand: sometimes it doesn't matter how much you prepare, there are just people you can't beat.

On a daily basis, I think it's really important to be conscious of gender-based discrimination - which presents in sometimes more, but often less, obvious forms - and do everything possible to defeat that discrimination.

France now has a new president and he must be respected. I assume full responsibility for this defeat.

Anytime somebody loses a presidential election, there are lots of explanations.

When you win, everything is so beautiful, and when you don't, it's not, so everything is darker.

A lot of times, losing a fight is tough. In your darkest hours, I guess your true colors show.

I lost three times in my career. Losing to Holmes I could deal with, because I lost to a true champion.

We live in a world and a profession where you win a game, you lose the next one and you're deemed a failure.

You cannot defeat an enemy you do not admit exists.

An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.

I study my competition for at least an hour a day. I get on the Internet, I look at what they doing, and then I look at ways to defeat them. I know their mixtapes track-by-track. I know some of their lyrics.