Quotes About Defeat

On England's elimination from the 2002 World Cup after losing 2-1 to Brazil] The dressing room was like a morgue. Nobody moved, nobody spoke. The players were traumatized. They had a glimpse of immortality and let it slip. Some might get the chance to redeem themselves, others - notably Seaman - certainly wouldn't. From Sven-Goran Eriksson: The Final Reckoning

By 1948, "to err is Truman" became a popular expression, and a Newsweek poll of fifty political pundits found that every one of them predicted his defeat. His 1948 Republican opponent was the popular Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York, who had been the party's nominee against Roosevelt four years before.

Zo shook her head. It wasn't going to happen like this, she wanted to say, it didn't get to end this way. He didn't get to win.

Evil was defeated because good people rose to the challenge and refused to surrender.

we can not prepare for defeat and expect to live a life in Victory.

You will overcome every obstacle, defeat every enemy

What you say when the enemy is roaring is very important. Speak victory in the face of defeat, speak peace in the face of fear, speak health in the face of sickness, speak abundance in the face of lack.

If you see the obstacle as being too big, it will keep you defeated. That's

La batalla está en su mente. Si usted está derrotado en su mente, ya ha perdido la batalla. Si

Saw a sunken army who had spent fourteen years waging war on alcohol only to see alcohol win, and win big.

But I've got you, you're caught! For a half-hellhound like you are, Solomon's Key is what is called for.

Life is so complicated a game that the devices of skill are liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances, incalculable as the descent of thistle-down.

Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose.

we can not prepare for defeat and expect to live a life in Victory.

What is life without its angles of difficulty and defeat, and its tip of triumph and power?

Life, after we'd had a few millennia to observe it, turned out to be dreadfully unfair, so we invented sports.

It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.

It's not life or death it's a game and at the end of the game there is going to be a winner and a loser.

Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.

That's the whole story of my life: frustration. It's a chronic disease, and it's incurable.

Life is like a game, Charlie Brown... Sometimes you win... Sometimes you lose." "I'll be happy if I just make the playoffs.

Sometimes I feel that life has passed me by... Do you ever feel that way, Charlie Brown?" "I feel that it has knocked me down and walked all over me!

It tasted like salt and failure.

The contest lay not between love and duty. Perhaps there never is such a contest. It lay between the real and the pretended, and Lucy's first aim was to defeat herself.