Eamon de Valera Quotes

Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.

I was embarrassing against Spinks.

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

Nobody feels any worse than I do about losing.

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.

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

I'm gutted, devastated that in front of my own fans I've lost my belt.

Nobody likes to lose 3-0.

Anyone can lose a fight. That doesn't bother me. But the shame that comes afterwards is unbearable.

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.

To fall in the Copa del Rey is a failure.

What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

Nobody wants to be associated with failing to qualify for the World Cup finals. I cannot imagine the shame of it.

It is an honourable thing to be merciful to the vanquished.

He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity.

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.

Compassion is contempt with a human face.

If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

I've been on the end of losing a fight, and there's a piece of my heart that has compassion towards that because I know how it feels.

When people ask me really stupid questions or get it really wrong, I feel embarrassed for them. I don't really feel angry at them.

The humiliation of the North is complete and overwhelming.

It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.