Dan O'Brien Quotes

To be in the Finals and the medical staff is telling me I can't play... it sucks.

It's tough to strike out. Believe me. I hate striking out. It's no fun. It's embarrassing. But there really isn't anything I can do. It's just a part of my game.

It's really difficult for me to watch when I'm unable to play myself.

There will be days when you feel defeated, exhausted, and plain old beat-up by life's whiplash. People you love will disappoint you - and you will disappoint them. You'll probably struggle with some kind of mortal appetite. Some days it will feel as though the veil between Heaven and Earth is made of reinforced concrete.

I hate to lose more than I love to win.

I like movies about failing.

Losing hurts me. I was determined to be the best.

Yes, I'm a real fighter. But I often ended up empty-handed.

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

When you lose a game or don't play well you can't wait for the next one, because it soon disappears, the disappointment.

Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those.

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'm talking to anyone who has been dumped - have not gotten the job you really wanted or have received those horrible rejection letters from grad school. You know, the disappointment of losing, or not getting something you badly want. When that happens, show what you are made of.

Yeah, two or three weeks ago I was fairly snappy. I've never been injured before and this year it feels like I've hardly played.

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

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

It's hard to deal with defeat.

When you put your all in and people say 'he has given up,' that is hard to take.

You have to lose to win a silver medal, so that's always the tough thing to wrap your head around.

It is always annoying when you cannot play and cannot help the team.

Those four Super Bowl losses? Yeah, it sucks that we didn't win, but what are you going to do about it? You can feel sorry for yourself, but that's not how I was brought up.

Losing! It bothers me a lot. I'm such a competitor, and I take everything personally.

Being able to taste failure, it makes you kind of want to throw up. It makes you just hate the game.

I don't take losing very well.

I led the world the whole year until the trials. I was in Birmingham, U.K. Broke the meet record, had the meet won already, beat the 2012 Olympic champion in long jump that day. It was a big moment. On the last jump, I blew it. Blew my hamstring.