Fedor Emelianenko Quotes

Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It's in any game that you're in - a business game or whatever - you can't get complacent.

Even though you're the best, it doesn't mean you're not going to lose. And it doesn't mean nobody's going to beat you.

Things happen in football and you have to be man enough that things come and go.

People, when they sent me to Cleveland, what they expected was for Shawn to go to Cleveland and us to lose, you know what I'm saying? It's not going to happen.

Ups and downs will be happening; coming to the final and losing by a point or so should not matter.

I am not a big crier. But I'd say it was after the Mendes fight. It was not because of the fight as such. It was everything leading up to it. It had been such a tough time. When I did my knee, I had some very dark times. Life is all about ups and downs and I'd say there had been a lot of downs, but I got through it, I won and after the fight, I was standing in the shower and I was crying, just letting it all go.

The fights I've learned the most were always the fights I lost.

I still look back and think, 'How did I win the Tour, going day to day under that pressure?'

If I lose the first set, I still have two more. Let's not make a drama, you know.

It's super good for me because wherever you go, there's always going to be competition, and you're always going to have to fight, and I feel that PSG is really teaching me that you have to fight for your position even if you're not playing.

I've come back from losses and won world titles.

There were always kids better than me. Because of that, I had to learn to be a role player and do my part.

Every step that I've taken was a learning lesson. Even to not think you're so big and so bad you can't fall.

A winner must first know what losing's like.

I will not doubt, though sorrows fall like rain, And troubles swarm like bees about a hive; I shall believe the heights for which I strive Are only reached by anguish and by pain; And though I groan and tremble with my crosses, I yet shall see, through my severest losses, The greater gain.

On this earth all is temptation. Crosses tempt us by irritating our pride, and prosperity by flattering it. Our life is a continual combat, but one in which Jesus Christ fights for us. We must pass on unmoved, while temptations rage around us, as the traveler, overtaken by a storm, simply wraps his cloak more closely about him, and pushes on more vigorously toward his destined home.

Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.

Success is often harder to take than failure.

Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.

Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honour of losing and the joy of winning I am not here to tell you that defeat is a part of life: we all know that. Only the defeated know Love. Because it is in the realm of love that we fight our first battles – and generally lose. I am here to tell you that there are people who have never been defeated. They are the ones who never fought. They managed to avoid scars, humiliations, feelings of helplessness, as well as those moments when even warriors doubt the existence of God.’’ Manuscript Found In Accra – Paulo Coelho

Every night when I go to bed I think, In the morning I will wake up in my own house and things will be back the way they were. It hasn’t happened this morning, either.

I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.

Losing is the bane and bugbear of every professional athlete's existence, but in baseball the monster seems to hang closer than in other sports, its chilly claws and foul breath palpable around the neck hairs of the infielder bending for his crosshand scoop or the reliever slipping his first two fingers off-center on the ball seams before delivering his two-and-two cut fastball.

Everybody loses a couple, and you either pack it up and go home or you keep on fighting.

I have had the privilege of losing everything.