Rupert Holmes Quotes

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

I've been to the top. I've also been at the bottom.

Pure unadulterated success is not as funny as failure.

Sometimes you have to lose to win again.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

Success and failure are equally surprising.

There is winning and there is misery.

The costs of failure are infinitely greater than the price of victory.

We have all lost before and we will win again.

Losing and winning is a part of life.

I've won every type of way. I've lost every type of way.

I've been fortunate enough to win titles; I've been unfortunate enough to get relegated as well.

I remember virtually everything about every loss. And the wins are hardly memorable.

To the winner, there is 100-percent elation, 100-percent fun, 100-percent laughter; and yet the only thing left to the loser is resolution and determination.

Life is like a game, Charlie Brown... Sometimes you win... Sometimes you lose." "I'll be happy if I just make the playoffs.

In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best.

I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory.

we can not prepare for defeat and expect to live a life in Victory.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

I had five years of failure, really, before I had the first initial sign of success.