Quotes About Defeat

when he won the command to defeat Hannibal in the third century B.C.

Only ten thousand of his men survived the debacle. Humiliatingly, many legionary standards were captured.

terrible penalty exacted on the survivors of Spartacus' final defeat: thousands were crucified

His humiliating double defeat at sea not only signaled the ruin of his hopes to eliminate Sextus Pompeius

You cannot defeat your enemies until you know who they are.

As far as he could see, the communist system was defeating itself without his help. How else to explain the forlorn hopelessness of its capital?

An army took on the Union; an army lost. That nation, the Confederate States, lost. And if - that flag - in terms of publicly or state-sponsored things, or local or county or city-sponsored things - should be forever wiped from the memory, because that side lost.

Whenever the Klitschkos pick opponents who punch back, things go pear-shaped for them.

If you make a mistake, your opponent can punish, and you end up losing the game.

As long as Muslims were confident they could not be defeated, but now we are just puppets.

In our system, at about 11:30 on election night, they just push you off the edge of the cliff-and that's it. You might scream on the way down, but you're going to hit the bottom, and you're not going to be in elective office.

We have to defeat ISIS. We have to make certain that we destroy them and that we push them back.

I've lost so many fights and I've won many but you have to keep pushing.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

No one gets beat by 61 and then come out and plays flat the next game.

Your film is a hit, you bathe in champagne; it flops, a single malt lessens the pain.

My focus is just to defeat the Congress-NCP combine, nothing else. We will do everything to keep them out of power.

Football is a sad game.

Sometimes you lose; that is football.

It doesn't feel good in the NFL when you lose a football game until you get out there and win another one and another one.

If you ask any footballer, if you haven't won a game all season you're not going to be confident.

When you win everything is great but when you're losing nobody wants to know you - except for the people that really love you.

In every dressing room in the world, players say things to each other after a defeat, and then it gets forgotten.

I lost my first professional fight, but came back and won fights until I fought for the world title.