Quotes About Defeat

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

One of the biggest gaps in sports is the difference between the winning and losing teams of the Super Bowl. They don't invite the losing team to the White House. They don't have parades for them. They don't throw confetti on them.

The fun never goes out, but it changes with the years, with winning and losing.

The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.

When you're winning, you're a hero. When you're losing, you're a bum... I'm as bad as the fans, believe me. If they only knew how I hate losing and what we go through to try to win.

When you're so close to winning and you have to stand on the podium and listen to someone else's anthem, it leaves just a little bit of that bittersweet feeling.

It is ironic that losing makes you more liked than winning.

I like winning or losing, failing or succeeding on my own merit.

I love winning, and I hate losing.

Football is quite easy when you're doing well and winning games. It's when things aren't so good and they get tough, that's when the character and attitude stand up.

Not winning and those types of things are difficult. There is no doubt. You can't say they are not.

Winning, I believe, is a culture just as much as losing is.

Any captain can only do his best for the team and for cricket. When you are winning, you are a hero. Lose, and the backslappers fade away.

I think I went on a nice winning streak of about 20 fights until I fought Jorge Reyes and he stopped me in 6 rounds after I punched myself out.

I know what winning and losing is when you gamble.

I love winning. Maybe it's more that I hate losing?

Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four years later.

I hate to lose. I like winning.

I don't know, I always get the question 'how do you feel after the game today?' and, of course, if you're winning you feel great and if you lose you don't feel good. I think that's a pretty obvious question.

I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the Democratic nomination. I believed that any reasonable Democrat would defeat President Nixon. I now think that no one could have defeated him in 1972.

You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections.

Let's face it, I'm not winning a fight with anybody - unless it's against someone like Larry David.

In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

Classical tragedy was the war between good and evil. We wanted evil to be defeated and good to be victorious. But the battle in modern tragedy is between good and good. And no matter which side wins, we'll still be heartbroken.