Quotes About Defeat

It is very, very difficult to quit when you're losing. And nobody does it well.

In boxing there are only two ways out: you get knocked out or you quit.

Bad luck never lost a race.

I lost races because I wanted too much to win them in beating my rivals.

I've lost a lot more races than I've ever won... it's all part of the journey, really.

I hate losing. It doesn't matter if it's racing or playing Ping-Pong - I hate it.

There is no place for arrogance or complacency in racing because you are up there one minute and on your backside the next.

In racing you're not going to win every week, and we understand that.

Mistakes happen in racing.

I absolutely feel that Rage failed.

I did athletics when I was at school. I ran the 100 meters but I got beat once so stopped doing it.

Nobody was going to beat Barack Obama in 2008. That's a fact. It was his moment. It wasn't that John McCain ran a bad campaign, or picked the wrong VP. It was just that it didn't matter, it was over when it started.

Whitaker ran... he made a lot of fouls.

I like the thought of gaining revenge over WBC light-heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson, who beat me in 2013.

Athletics is athletics. When you do sport, you are gambling. You run, you win, you lose. It doesn't matter if you are competing or you are not competing.

I lost my fight against Brett Rogers because... I didn't follow my game plan.

I played in football games where you walk off the field and the scoreboard didn't end up the way you wanted. But you knew that you really did give it all. And the other team was too strong.

I held the title for almost eight years the first time and then I lost it at the Garden. But, then I came back and took it again for another four years.

The garden is something I always try to get into, but it always beats me.

Oh my garden, I hope Cory Booker runs for president, just to watch him lose.

Losing has nothing to do with geography.

I've always been like that: after a loss, I go home and pass out and don't give it another thought. When I'm winning, I'm too excited.

When I was very young, coming into the Sunderland side, if we got beaten, I'd be very down. I'd go home, and it would drag on for days, I'd be thinking about the game. I was from Sunderland, felt things like a fan, and got really down.

In Sochi, I felt like I lost a gold.