Triumph and Defeat Quotes

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.

I've gone from the top of the world to the bottom of the ocean.

You can be on top of everything, and the next minute, you're going to be on the bottom.

Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit ... The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose.

Greatness and fiasco is the same. You're reaching for something just out of your grasp, and if you get it, it's great, and if you don't, it's a disaster.

My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.

Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.

We're in a pressure-filled sport for sure, but anything in an Olympic season is heightened, the highs are higher and the lows are lower, and everything just takes on grander proportions.

Whatever's lost, it first was won.

That 'Rollercoaster' album cover was very prophetic in its own way. My career has been a rollercoaster of highs and lows.

If you don't lose, you cannot enjoy the victories. So I have to accept both things.

There are so many high-highs and there are so many low-lows in this game.

It's hard dealing with wins and losses.

You can be on top of the world one day and the next day you can go 0-for-4 with four strikeouts.

This sport gives you the highest highs and the lowest lows.

Rather than writing about international events, I write about individual lives. There is elation and sadness, death and birth, love and jealousy, co-operation and betrayal. All the great emotional transactions that happen wherever people come together.