Pete Rose Quotes

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

It's never easy to lose the games and then come back stronger.

Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

I know that you that you may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. If you accept that you have been defeated, you give power to the force that is trying to defeat you.

Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose.

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

As an athlete, you sort of just win every day. Because you're going to sometimes lose every day. And so you just keep picking yourself up and going forward.

Great fighters get beat, and great fighters come back.

I know that there is failure, but if you're prepared, you can accept whatever happens in the ring.

I am powered by the defeat in Sochi, as I am by all my defeats.

You don't lose because of one play.

I was never taught to lose or take losing.

I lost as amateur, I lost a bunch of times as a wrestler, and you always come back.

Delays, disappointments and defeats cause quitters to give up in resignation; losers, to give in the frustration; winners, to come through with determination.

You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.

It isn’t defeat, but rather your mental attitude toward it, that whips you.

A kingdom is not lost by a single defeat.

Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting.

Every person falls down at some point. Successful people choose to get back up!

There's always a point where you get knocked down. But I draw on what I've learned on the track: If you work hard, things will work out.

I tried, it was hard, I quit, the end. Story of my life.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does.

If our expectations, if our fondest prayers and dreams, are not realized then we should all bear in mind that the greatest glory of living lies not in never falling but in rising every time you fall.