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I think that our weakness is understanding that when we go to war, we go to war to win.

We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

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 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?

People need to look beyond just the immediate victory... There are no permanent victories.

Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.

Victory doesn't lie in taming our nature but in progressively discovering and revealing more of it.