Abraham A. Ribicoff Quotes

Football is a sad game.

My pride fell with my fortunes.

Some of my memories will never return. They are lost - along with the crippling feeling of defeat and hopelessness. Not a tremendous price to pay.

Whenever we lose, it is a sad day.

'Weary Willie' is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The cards are stacked against him. He's content to make out with what he's got. He knows he'll go no further.

My sweetest hope is to lose hope.

I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing.

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!

I get really very upset when I'm voted out, and I feel very disappointed.

Nothing exasperates the spirit in man more than power which seems unconquerable and which makes impotent all protest.

People think we don't give a toss about the game, but when I walked out of Windsor Park that night I felt lower than a snake's belly. The reality is still there.

I was just tired of losing... Life was passing me by.

The situation of our nation has changed; it's current state is that of bitter defeat and chronic weakness, which has become embedded in the thoughts of the Muslims. This means that our nation has declined from a nation of power and might to one of deep slumber.

Everything I have done has been wasted. In another 20 years France will be dead.

Hell, I can't even generate a good demonstration any more.

I shall never come to the Punjab again; it is such a hopeless place.

When you want something desperately and you lose it, no matter how hard you try to get yourself motivated, it's always difficult.

I lost a lot of finals, so it was difficult. It's sad, and that sadness stays with you, but I always enjoyed the game.

A loss is always a loss.

I've lost a lot. I'm tired of it. It's not fun.

Brother, thy tail hangs down behind.

It stinks to play terrible and your team loses. It's like salt on the wound.

I'm human. When you lose, of course you're going to be upset. It's a horrible feeling.

Losing sucks.