Quotes About Defeat

I had the opportunity to take a judo class once, and I've never done that before - except fighting and beating up my brother at home. I decided to stay for the class and I defeated every boy there, so the teacher asked me if I wanted to stay and train more.

We need to get serious about defeating ISIS; we just aren't serious about it yet. I would be very serious about getting it done. I know how to do it. We need to take the fight to them on the battlefield in a more serious way.

Big defeats make us learn.

Sometimes you learn the most from your defeats.

You're gonna have pretty bad defeats. But you've gotta be able to respond and come back in and compete the next night.

There are those who say that defeats teach a lot, but also learning to win is not bad.

I am powered by the defeat in Sochi, as I am by all my defeats.

Wenger and Mourinho are different, but there is one thing they have in common, and that is that they do not like defeats. And I think this is the driving force behind the success of both of them.

I'll remember my first league title, my first cup, the Champions League. But also the defeats - that's also part of football.

Unfortunately, defeats are part of the game.

Democracy is a destiny of humanity which cannot be averted. It can be delayed but not defeated.

Air power will not defeat ISIS. It has not been able to deny ISIS freedom of maneuver and the ability to attack at will.

I got really depressed when Sidney Moncrief lost to Larry Bird. That really depressed me.

It is good to get goals, but it is quite depressing if we don't win.

I'm destined to be attracted to those I cannot defeat.

By 2012, my game was shot. You're sitting on your chair watching players' leagues below you play shots you can't. That destroyed me.

I'm gutted, devastated that in front of my own fans I've lost my belt.

In college, a loss is pretty devastating. That feeling kind of goes away in an 82-game season. You hate to lose, but you also have a lot more games to make up for it.

I once tried to read the dictionary. It didn't work.

I'm a competitor; I'm in here talking - come at me. If you score on me, I'm gonna tap you on your butt. You got the best of me - but you got to do it every time.

I've tasted the bitter beatings.

It tastes sweeter when you come close and suffer some really painful losses.

There is no better teacher than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

I've learned to lose with a smile on my face. That's what the Oscar teaches you.