There are important cases in which the difference between half a heart and a whole heart makes just the difference between signal defeat and a splendid victory.

You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.

Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

The man who wins may have been counted out several times but he didn't hear the referee.

Making a comeback is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity.

We are not retreating -- we are advancing in another direction.

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.

Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor?

For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed principles, the bad have fairly earned a victory over the weak, the vacillating, inconsistent good.