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Quotes About Defeat

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
~ Gertrude Stein
One of my favorite things about the D-League was going on the road and losing and not having to talk to anyone after the game.
~ Nick Nurse
Many times the players get in there and it's just about as well as they could have done, and other times they get in there and they favorites and they don't win.
~ Ivan Lendl
There are days where you do everything right and nothing goes in your favour.
~ Harbhajan Singh
In every match, there are difficult decisions; sometimes they go in your favour and sometimes against. You need to be able to accept them.
~ Massimiliano Allegri
Stuff happens in football. Sometimes it goes in your favour, sometimes it doesn't.
~ David Silva
There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.
~ James Baldwin
I just don't like losing, I don't like losing, full stop. Even if it's at FIFA.
~ Raheem Sterling
When you're a fighter, and you're not doing good in your work, that happens - you lost the fight.
~ Rafael dos Anjos
What happened to me against Prescott didn't make Prescott a better fighter than me.
~ Amir Khan
I think there's a lot of people out there who, if George Foreman had to get beat, I'm the one fighter they would like to see beat him.
~ Tommy Morrison
I have known, for me, that my fight in 'The Ultimate Fighter' can't be the way I went out.
~ Shayna Baszler
Of course, every time I get beat out there, I want to avenge those losses. I'm sure every fighter does.
~ Dustin Poirier
Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.
~ Conor McGregor
Great fighters get beat, and great fighters come back.
~ Naseem Hamed
So many fighters who fight Golovkin have lost before they've entered the ring.
~ Chris Eubank Jr.
The only fighters to beat Manny Pacquiao have become legends themselves.
~ Jessie Vargas
It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
No battle is worth fighting except the last one.
~ Enoch Powell
I've had a lot of fights, and they haven't all gone my way.
~ Chael Sonnen
I've beaten a lot of great fighters, but people say the big ones, I've lost them all. I don't want to go down as a guy who loses his big fights.
~ Michael Bisping
As far as losing fights, that's part of the sport.
~ Chuck Liddell
You might cry during a game if you lose a final. That's all part of football.
~ Alexis Sanchez
It's the worst feeling in the world - losing, and losing in a final on the big stage is even worse.
~ Harry Kane