Quotes About Defeat

The way I look at it, 29 teams fail every year and one team succeeds.

If success is about winning the league, there will always be 19 disappointed clubs.

Successful people are not interesting. I feel for the losers. That's where my heart lies.

She's not happy about the life she is living but to jump through the hoop would mean to succumb to death.

There's such a thing as retribution in sports.

Is the casual objectification of women so commonplace that we should all just suck it up, roll over, and accept defeat? I hope not.

Losing sucks. I don't think most people understand how bad it feels.

I'm not gonna sugarcoat it: It sucks to lose sometimes.

It sucks when you lose.

Losing sucks. I don't care how much money you make or what stats you put up. If you're competitive enough to make it to the NBA, losing is absolutely brutal.

It just flat-out sucks losing. It really - it doesn't feel good.

Whenever you put so much time and effort into one single game, and you go out there and lose, it sucks.

Being on the losing end of perfect games sucks. I tried not to make a habit of it during my career, but I couldn't help myself.

Devin McCourty

Game 7 of a Championship Series sucks the emotion out of a player, particularly if you have to stroll home a loser when it's over.

To anyone who has started out on a long campaign believing that the gold medal was destined for him, the feeling when, all of a sudden, the medal has gone somewhere else is quite indescribable.

The way I suffer after a defeat is not for all, because I suffer. I suffer. But those who know me know that, after this, I start stronger with more hunger, more desire, because I don't like to lose.

All of the top managers I have come across during my career and befriend, they suffer as much with the defeats and when things don't go their way late in life as they did early in life.

Few remember that the battle of Rorke's Drift was fought on the same day that the British Army suffered its most humiliating defeat at nearby Isandlwana.

I remember every defeat I suffered as an amateur. They were rare enough to be burned into my brain, and that's why I can't bear the thought of losing.

The Congress has made it clear that it has an alliance with the DMK, and it did face the elections with the DMK. And even after the results were known and they suffered a massive defeat, the Congress continues to say that they have an alliance with DMK, and it continues to be a part of the ruling coalition.

Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest, pound-for-pound, ever. He fought most of his career with just one loss, and that was to me. He had 131 fights with one loss.

I would be going until I went over the bounds of reality and was then caught up in a profound wish to be dead without having to go through the shaming defeat of suicide.

I never slept when I lost. I'd see the sun come up without ever having closed my eyes. I'd see those base hits over and over and they would drive me crazy.