Competition Failure Quotes

I know the feeling of being in the postseason and losing. It's not fun.

One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that competition.

I felt that I didn't get a fair chance at Texas Tech to compete, for an assortment of reasons, but reasons I couldn't really control.

I win over Anthony Johnson six out of seven days. But, the only thing that wasn't supposed to happen, happened.

I wore glasses, no music, and I won - I think it was - fifth place. I got a whipping the same day. My mother whipped me for something. Destroyed my ego completely.

For me, not making the playoffs is a wasted season, a waste of time.

I'm a good singer, yet I couldn't participate in 'Star Ya Rockstar.'

I was ready in 2008 for the Olympic Games but unfortunately I missed the Kenyan trials with a thigh injury. I watched those Olympics but it was tough to watch. But it was good in the end because a Kenyan, Wilfred Bungei, was the champion.

If you lose you better at least be entertaining while you do it or people will turn you off.

Charter schools were supposed to compete with public schools, and in turn, that competition was meant to improve education. But that wasn't the end result.

You're always disappointed when you lose a game.

Four world titles is a good swath at the top of the podium. The Olympics didn't work out for a couple of reasons, but it feels good when people say 'four world titles.'

I tried out for 'Tough Enough' season 2 originally and made it to the final casting episode and got cut by Kevin Dunn, who said all I wanted to do was run and flip and jump.

I really enjoyed my time in Germany but didn't actually win anything.

Alternative services would mean that there would be services available to compete with Google, Facebook, Amazon, Dropbox, Skype, etc., and they would be run by companies not based in the U.S.A. The rest of the world has simply failed in being able to compete with them, and we really should be doing better here.

Microsoft has tried to do a lot of things in search... thrown a lot of money. But nothing they have done has worked at all.

He's a threat to win until his brain turns to tapioca.

It's one of the biggest disappointments of my boxing career, not going to the Olympics.

I led the world the whole year until the trials. I was in Birmingham, U.K. Broke the meet record, had the meet won already, beat the 2012 Olympic champion in long jump that day. It was a big moment. On the last jump, I blew it. Blew my hamstring.