Triumph Over Defeat Quotes

The only real failure is giving up.

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

If you watch the history of baseball, teams come back, and sometimes they could have come back, but they give in or give up.

In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

If you have a fall -- mental, moral, or physical -- pick yourself up and start over again immediately. If you do, in the long run life won't beat you.

Losing makes you strong.

I am Defeated all the time, yet to Victory I am born.

Heroes are made in the hour of defeat

I don't care about losing. How many times did Michael Jordan lose before he won his first championship? It wasn't about the number of losses with Sugar Ray Leonard or Tommy Hearns.

In times of defeat, we never know how close we are to victory. In every event of failure, God has planted a seed of success.

I have not lost an awful lot in my life, but the defeats have taught me more than the victories.

Woe unto the defeated, whom history treads into the dust.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

I love sportsmen's spirit, their ability to come back and override negativity. Michael Owen has been written off so many times, but he will always prove the doubters wrong.

No matter how often defeated, you are born to victory.

For those who are fighters rather than defeatists, a battle is over when it's impossible to win.

I'm going to go down swinging... I'm sure as heck not going to go home and say I had a bad tournament.

I remember one game when I pitched in Yankee Stadium and gave up five runs in the first inning. It would have been easy to quit, but I shut 'em out the rest of the way, and we came back and won the game.

Muhammed Ali is my favorite boxer, and the reason that I love Ali is because he's not undefeated. It's because of the fact that he risked it all at times and lost - but then came back.