Wendell Phillips Quotes

When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.

It's a challenge between me and the hurdle, and the hurdle has always won.

Champions all get kicked when they're down.

We all have to meet our match sometime or other.

You never want to lose but it happens in the NFL.

You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things.

The great do not always prevail.

No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.

I could do nothing without my problems; they toughen my mind. In fact, I tell my assistants not to bring me their successes for they weaken me, but rather to bring me their problems, for they strengthen me.

Expand your notion of what adversity is.

I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them.

One who does not fall, does not stand up.

No one is easy until you actually beat them.

You can't win for losing.

You win some and you lose some. Unless you're Virgil, then you lose them all.

The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.

Time’s a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?” Scotty shook his head. “The goon won.

Death is not such a bad thing. What would be a bad thing would be living without challenges. Without knowing defeat, we cannot know what victory is. There is no life without death.

You can't let a man like this beat you.

Not every man can carry a full cup. Sudden elevation frequently leads to pride and a fall. The most exacting test of all to survive is prosperity.

I tried, it was hard, I quit, the end. Story of my life.

I am facing the most difficult thing of my life, my own greatest failure.

A good man's fortune may grow out at heels.

Of course, it's always bad to lose, of course it's always a hardship when you lose to yesterday's miners or yesterday's tractor drivers. But life is life. It'll surely go on.