I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it's true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead fish in the water.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
There are many victories worse than a defeat.
Donald Trump has a mantra of despair, of loss. He says we don't have victories anymore. We used to have victories, but we don't. And he says the American dream is dead.
I believe our inability to achieve victory stems mainly from having lost sight as a nation of what it means to win.
I think that it's perhaps harder to learn from victory than it is from defeat. I think that we don't want defeat. We don't want defeat in sport. We don't want defeat in life. How are we going to be beaten? All right. We have to deal with those things. What's going to cause us to lose the game, whatever the game might be?
There is something inherently tough about Americans. They will not accept defeat.
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
I have a very pessimistic view that every win takes you closer to a loss because no-one in the world can keep on winning forever.
America is full of success stories featuring victories by the underdog.
At least is was a victory and at least we won.