At least we played with heart and desire – two things that were missing in the Wolfsburg defeat,

It’s difficult to swallow the defeat. We started well and took the lead, but unfortunately we couldn’t sustain it or extend it. It’s hard for the players, but they should be proud. In the end,...

In 1975, the Americans suffered a spectacular military defeat at the hands of North Vietnam and the Vietcong, with U.S. helicopters seeking to rescue leading U.S. personnel from the tops of buildings as Vietnamese guerrillas...

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

Since defeat in the Struggle must always be envisaged, the preparation of one’s own successors is as important as what one does for victory.

We haven’t had a defeat like that since my first year here. [Canfield’s] defense is the best I’ve seen here.

You can’t allow the false ideas of defeat to discourage you. Every day you should feel encouraged to do your best, encouraged to be your best, and encouraged to work towards your best.

There are feet that are swift to mete out defeat to anything different, but in doing so the assailant is already defeated. I say to them that the lack of awareness concerning their premature end...

Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.[News conference, April 21 1961]

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat. After a while it becomes more innovative in thinking up how to lose than...

Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering.

Now comes the picture of mass defeat, the most awesome spectacle of the war. It is in the bent bodies of old women who poke among ruins seeking some miserable object that will link their...

Take care of your soul; it will never lose its tournament if Jesus is the coach of your life. He will substitute your sins for righteousness and you will not be tempted to suffer a...

Yeah, your highness. I know what loss is. I’ve loved thatgirl since before she knew me. But I waited. I waited because I didn’t want to lie about who I was. I wanted her to...

If we keep our heads down, either out of defeat or loss or shame or tiredness… whatever the reason, we are going to miss the beautiful sun (and Son) that is right there in front...

The sounds she heard bouncing off the walls around her were those of defeat.

You are a failure not the time when you are defeated.. but when you give up fighting.

Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.

Grief was like a newborn, and the first three months were hard as hell, but by six months you’d recognized defeat, shifted your life around, and made room for it.

How Did You Die?Did you tackle that trouble that came your wayWith a resolute heart and cheerful?Or hide your face from the light of dayWith a craven soul and fearful?Oh, a trouble’s a ton, or...

Alas, how easily things go wrong!A sigh too much, a kiss too longAnd there follows a mist and a weeping rainAnd life is never the same again

Our measure of hope is in direct proportion to our ability to conquer hopelessness.

I cannot do it. I cannot bear it. I cannot go back to what I was here. I cannot stand at her side and watch another take her. I am not that strong or that...

Although one of the key justifications for the Vietnam war was to prevent the spread of communism, the U.S. defeat was to produce nothing of the kind: apart from the fact that Cambodia and Laos...

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.