Coping with Defeat Quotes

I would say you might encounter many defeats but you must never be defeated, ever. In fact, it might even be necessary to confront defeat. It might be necessary, to get over it, all the way through it, and go on. I would teach her to laugh a lot. Laugh a lot at the - and the silliest things and be very, very serious. I'd teach her to love life, I can bet you that.

Often, during combat, the warrior of light receives blows that he was not expecting. And he realizes that, during a war, his enemy is bound to win some of the battles. When this happens, the warrior of light weeps bitter tears and rests in order to recover his energies a little. But he immediately resumes the battle for his dreams.

It's funny, you can get over the win pretty quick and get ready for the next opponent. When you lose, it just eats at you.... What could we have done? What should I have done? All those things. Just part of playing professional sports and sports in general.

It strains a man's philosophy the worst kind to laugh when he gets beat.

If you don't win, it's not a great tragedy - the worst that happens is that you lose a game.

Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell--Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who had stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh.

I'm not a person who goes into a deep depression after a defeat. I try to remain reasonably upbeat. I'm realistic enough to know that results of football matches are often unpredictable and, when all is said and done, things don't always work out as one would wish!

Grief is the price of victory.

Time’s a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?” Scotty shook his head. “The goon won.

It's bizarre, a punch in the face hurts less when you win than when you lose.

That gut-wrenching feeling of defeat I can still feel today. Losing and God are the two things that I fear. I fear no man

I do believe, as my father once said, that "No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out."

I don't understand these new coaches who don't drink. What do they do when they get beat?

I've gone through so many of these stages of defeat and loss and victory, the ups and downs, that I know how to handle it.

What is life without its angles of difficulty and defeat, and its tip of triumph and power?

I probably would have no capability of absorbing a 60-defeat season as a coach. It would be a foreign experience. My whole career, even as a player, has been on winning basketball clubs and it just seems to have been a part of the make-up of what’s been given me. That’s what I’ve been given and that’s what I’ve had to deal with. Some people can make fun of it or some people can have a good time with it, or some people can resent it. It’s just what it is.

In college, a loss is pretty devastating. That feeling kind of goes away in an 82-game season. You hate to lose, but you also have a lot more games to make up for it.

I would have drunk a lot of Pinot Grigio if I'd lost after leading 5-2 in the third.

I just don't want to get used to feeling this feeling, you know, losing basketball games.

Losing fights, or even winning fights, can be heartbreaking, and you can throw that away, but the truth is that it does make our lives better.

I know how it feels when you're coming into a new situation, that the other guys won the election.

He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates the vitality and the power to endure.