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You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.

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

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

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?

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

People talk about the pain of defeat, but I think defeat has a lot of value. I think the wound of victory can be even more damaging than defeat. Very few people really know how to win.

Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.

I learnt my lessons very early on that it's probably a good thing to be humble in victory as well as defeat.