Quotes About Defeat

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.

We are a much improved ball club: now we lose in extra innings!

I have no sense of humor about losing

Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm.

I quit because I didnt feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective.

People say it is part of the game. You win some, you lose some. But not for me.

One of the Arsenal players came up to me afterwards and said it had been an honor to be on the same pitch as me. I thought, My God, that is a great thing to say when your team has just lost.

Without losers, where would the winners be?

What really makes baseball so hard is it's retributive capacity for disaster if the smallest thing is done wrong, and the invisible presence of defeat that attends every game.

If I win several tournaments in a row, I get so confident I'm in a cloud. A loss gets me eager again.

The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.

The greatest gap in sports is between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl. The winner has confetti, parades, rings, the whole thing. The loser puts his head down and goes to his house.

If a team intimidate you physically and you let them, they've won.

I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.

Hell, no! A tie is like kissing your sister!

Sports is about people who lose and lose and lose. They lose games; then they lose their jobs. It can be very intriguing.

When someone like Brian Oldfield can beat me, I will retire.

Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.

Good sportsmanship we hail, we sing, It's always pleasant when you spot it. There's only one unhappy thing: You have to lose to prove that you've got it.

Victory and defeat are each of the same price.