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Quotes About Defeat

I'm not a winner. My nature is not the nature of a winner.
~ Peter Handke
When you lose a game of football, you can still be a winner by taking it on the chin and getting on with it.
~ Tony Pulis
Failures are expected by losers, ignored by winners.
~ Joe Gibbs
Winners don't believe in fate like others do. They simply cannot accept defeat.
~ David Silva
The Mahabharata might have been a great and heroic battle, but there are no winners. The losers, of course, lose.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Any time you have a competitive situation like politics is, there are winners, and there are people who don't win, and their supporters can sometimes be very emotional.
~ Justin Trudeau
There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won't be any winners.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
As long as ISIS is not overtly losing, they'll continue to be perceived as winners.
~ Ron Johnson
Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
~ Questlove
At Euro '92 itself, we bowed out to the eventual winners, Denmark, in our final group match.
~ Michel Patini
A trial is not a search for truth. It is a contest and, often, one that produces no winners.
~ Andrew Vachss
The thing I love about politics and sports is that there is an end goal - winning - and there are indeed winners and losers.
~ James Carville
Winning and losing isn't everything; sometimes, the journey is just as important as the outcome.
~ Alex Morgan
When you're not winning, you're losing.
~ John McCain
I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning.
~ Tom Cruise
After winning, it's hard to go to not winning.
~ Mikel Arteta
I've always said winning's the great deodorant, and conversely, when you have a bad record, everything stinks, and everything starts to unravel, and everything falls apart.
~ John Madden
I don't know how to put it, but yet you know we have so many people who the way they look at life, the way they work depends on what happens, us winning or losing. It's kind of crazy. So, I kind of got caught up in that, I'm gonna try to stay away from that.
~ Mike Ditka
Every winning streak will have to end sometime.
~ Jahangir Khan
As a tennis player you can win and you can lose, and you have to be ready for both. I practised self-control as a kid. But as you get older they both - winning and losing - get easier.
~ Rafael Nadal
Everything is good when you're winning. But true colors come out when you lose.
~ Jamal Murray
As far as success goes, I've never really got too excited about losing or winning.
~ Chrissie Hynde
It's low-key depressing when you're not winning.
~ JaVale McGee
Playing tennis, I didn't tie in my self-worth into winning or losing matches.
~ Martina Navratilova