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Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.

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.

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?

Victory and defeat are a part of life, which are to be viewed with equanimity.

Victory is the child of preparation and determination.

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

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

There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.