Derek Brunson Quotes

The better team sometimes loses.

It took me two years to get a title shot off a split-decision loss to Dominick Cruz that the UFC told me they thought I won.

It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion.

In some ways that fight gave me more respect around the world and helped me be even more popular because so many people felt my pain and saw that I was robbed.

There's some guys where I'm like, 'I won that fight and only lost because of the judges,' or I got cheated or whatever. I know I'm a better fighter.

For no fault of mine, I lost everything.

If the CEO is not going to give you a fair chance, you're probably not going to win.

Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?

Of all the multitudes who throughout history have spoken for human dignity in times of great suffering and loss, no voice is more compelling than that of Anne Frank.

More than anything, I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness, and then I leaned forward, my forehead against the back of Takumi's headrest, and I cried, whimpering, and I didn't even feel sadness so much as pain.

Trust me, I've seen a lot of fighters come in hot and they disappear faster than they came in after a loss or two. This is the UFC and the best fighters in the world are here. If you fight the great fighters you're bound to lose.

A rule without exceptions is an instrument capable of doing mischief to the innocent and bringing grief - as well as injustice - to those who should gain exemptions from the rule's functioning.

What did I do to make Mommy leave?” “You didn’t do anything. This isn’t your fault.” “Then why?” she’d wailed. “I don’t know,” her daddy had said, and he looked so sad. “It isn’t fair!” “No, it isn’t, baby. Not by a mile. The world’s only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in here, in your own little cave, that’s one less fighter on the side of fair.

I just got pinned by a freakin' twelve year old.

Don't focus on the wins and losses... focus your efforts on performing to your full potential.

Maybe it didn’t seem like a big deal to you Zach. But now, I hope you understand. My world was collapsing. I needed those notes. I needed any hope those notes might have offered. And you? You took that hope away. You decided I didn’t deserve to have it.

It's quite difficult for me not to be able to return to my country, but in my country justice has been murdered.

What's worse: to be idle while someone dies, or to be exiled and empty-handed?

They didn't give their lives for their country! their lives were taken from them by their government.

It is difficult for me to talk about some of these things without reliving the extreme emotions and loss one always feels for the untimely deaths of acquaintances, family and friends, all because they stood up against the unlawful tyranny of non-Indian America.

There’s death coming up, and you better understand this:some of the wrong people die.Be ready for it.

It's not fair to show someone the sun and then banish him from it. Even the devil may cry when he looks around hell and realizes that he's there alone. -Acheron

The losses are good... if you learn something.

It's not fair," I said. "It's just so goddamned unfair." "The world," he said, "is not a wishgranting factory.

Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.