Charles Darwin Quotes

I did everything I could to establish myself, but it just didn't work that way. I'm not angry about that.

I hate losing. I hate getting beat. I'm not used to it.

I guess I just wasn't meant to dance.

I just hated to lose.

I remember when I wanted every pitch to be a strike.

Being number two sucks.

I did try to win a sixth, but it was not to be.

An incident that left an impression on me was the 1999 sub-junior national boxing championship held in Calcutta. I had trained extremely hard to get there but got kicked out in the first round itself. 'If others can win, why can't you?' I repeatedly asked myself.

I don't have a single complete show or movie or anything else that I could look at and say, 'Nailed that one.' But endless dissatisfaction is, I suppose, what gets us out of bed in the morning.

I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.

We're not going to win every single one.

You try to be the best you can and sometimes it ain't damn good enough.

I can't be happy with drawing or losing a match. It actually makes me really sad when that happens.

I'm not gonna sugarcoat it: It sucks to lose sometimes.

You cannot win every game.

It hurts like hell when you come into a contest and you end up being second best.

Come on, if you lose, no one's going to be happy and nor should they be.

I'm always going to be overlooked. That's just how it is. That's how the league is.

There's no more bad feeling than when you get a defeat.

We sped on, across the plains, toward Metz. I hung back, saving myself. It is called the Race of Truth. The early stages separate the strong riders from the weak. Now the weak would be eliminated altogether.

It bothers me when I don't score.

If I could only fancy myself clever, it would be better, but to be a failure of Nature and to know it is not a comfortable lot. It is the last lesson one learns, to be contented with one's inferiority -- but it must be learned.

Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me.

The strong live and the weak die. There is some bloodshed, and out of it emerges a much leaner industry, which tends to survive.

Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.