Competitive Failure Quotes

Australia played some good cricket, but they have forgotten how to win.

I just missed out on qualifying for the Sydney Olympics in 2000.

I'm tired of not being in the playoffs... I hate watching them on TV.

You cannot lose games in the NFL, and still win

To anyone who has started out on a long campaign believing that the gold medal was destined for him, the feeling when, all of a sudden, the medal has gone somewhere else is quite indescribable.

By 2012, my game was shot. You're sitting on your chair watching players' leagues below you play shots you can't. That destroyed me.

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

And the trouble with me is that my ego just can't accept a loss. I suppose that if I were more perfectly adjusted, I would toss off defeat, but my name is on this ball club. Thirty-six men publicly reflect me and reflect on me, and it's a matter of my pride.

I made driving mistakes in Sochi that cost me gold, and I'll torture myself for the rest of my life about that!

When you're not at the top of your game and you feel like the other team is laughing and embarrassing you by doing certain things, it's time to retaliate.

Oh Wasn't it naughty of Smudges? Oh, Mummy, I'm sick with disgust. She threww me in front of the judges, And my silly old collar-bone's bust.

I dreamed of being a professional skater once. I wanted to be a Korean Olympic skater, but I wasn't good enough, so I quit.

But I think it's more normal for my team to have no success than it is to win two consecutive European cups.

The only reason why I don't win is because of a bad decision, misjudged the wind, misjudged the read on the greens and wet conditions. Those are the three or four things that will cause me not to win. That's it.

It is a pity that my collection of trophies contains not a single Russian.

On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'

When a show fails to destroy the competition-and it can fail while attracting 20 million viewers-it is itself destroyed.

It was very painful to be so close to a World Cup final.

I was top-10 once upon a time in this league, and I took a quick drop-off. Like, that's just not normal.

I've never been a hero at gymnastics.

When you're a 4-6 football team, obviously you haven't played the way you wanted to or the way you think you could.

Nobody likes to lose a Champions League semi-final.

It's interesting about people who choke. I'm, believe it or not, a good athlete. I've watched people choke over the years.

My brother played the game with his friends, so I thought I was a pretty smart kid and I played this friend of mine and he just crushed me and this was Brooklyn Tech High School in Brooklyn where I still live, in Brooklyn, New York and this guy beat me so bad it wasn't even funny. I couldn't understand why he beat me.

Throughout my career, we beat India in many matches, but for some reason, we never managed to get the better of them in World Cup matches, and it remains a disappointment for me.