Quotes About Defeat

In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best.

Thats the beauty of sport. Sometimes you laugh, sometimes you cry

My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.

Winners see what they want. Losers see what they don't want. Don't let the game eat you; you eat the game.

Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.

It's easy to do anything in victory. It's in defeat that a man reveals himself.

Only true champions come out and show their worth after defeat- and I expect us to do that.

I hate to lose more than I like to win. I hate to see the happiness on their faces when they beat me!

If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.

I don't care how good you play, you can find somebody who can beat you, and I don't care how bad you play, you can find somebody you can beat.

The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.

I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I love to play.

I am a winner. I just didn't win today.

We must have had 99 per cent of the match. It was the other three per cent that cost us.

Somebody's gotta win and somebody's gotta lose and I believe in letting the other guy lose.

There is winning and there is misery.

One shouldn't be afraid to lose; this is sport. One day you win; another day you lose. Of course, everyone wants to be the best. This is normal. This is what sport is about. This is why I love it.

The tragedy in sports is seeing a team beaten not by a better team, but by themselves.

No matter how much you've won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no matter how many Super Bowls, you're not winning now, so you stink.

You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.

The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think may happen doesn't happen. A champion is beaten, an unknown becomes a champion.