Desi Arnaz Quotes

I certainly was not going to add to his humiliation in the hour of defeat.

There's no question that history will record that I took a helluva shellacking.

To fall in the Copa del Rey is a failure.

It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.

You led us to the greatest humiliation France has experienced in 20 years.

I was embarrassing against Spinks.

I don't want to carry the burden of a flop. I don't fall into that trap.

You can lose any night.

I know what it is to win and to lose, and the last thing you want when you've lost is to have a microphone stuck under your nose.

After winning, it's hard to go to not winning.

It happens in football. You have bad days.

A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.

Losing is tough.

You remember the finals you lose as much as the ones you win.

If you could see the instructions that I gave Jerry to begin with, I'd be embarrassed.

Failure too is a form of death.

In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it - to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares!

Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to us.

Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.

My pride fell with my fortunes.

A beaten general is disgraced forever

There’s nothing more humbling than losing a few elections.

This is the history of failure.

Whenever you lose, it hurts.

It's hard to deal with defeat.