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"Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat."
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"The deepest human defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become."
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"Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat."
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"We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate."
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"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated."
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"Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus."
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"Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so much tragedy and suffering to defeat the evil designs of the Axis powers."
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"A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means."
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"There are many victories worse than a defeat."
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"South Vietnam faces total defeat, and soon."
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"I want a new contract. I'm happy at United and I see my future here."
Future

"I've heard people say it looks as if I don't care and I've certainly read that, but the way I play is natural. I don't think I can change it. I know I'm working as hard as the next man, even if it doesn't always look that way."
Change

"Four years ago maybe we thought we were inferior to Brazil, subconsciously we didn't see ourselves beating them. Now we believe in ourselves, we can be on the pitch with any team in the world and think we can win."
Thought

"You want to come home from a tournament with a winner's medal. That's not the fans or the media putting us under pressure, that's the pressure we put ourselves under."
Home

"People think we don't give a toss about the game, but when I walked out of Windsor Park that night I felt lower than a snake's belly. The reality is still there."
People

"I didn't expect to be dropped by England."
Sports

"There is a huge responsibility on all of us to get England through. It would be one of the biggest disasters in sports history if we blew it and we must make sure it does not happen."
History

"Most professional players are their own biggest critics. Some of the things you read in the papers that strike you as bang out of order will already have been thought by the players themselves."
Thought

"There is a hangover from a defeat like Denmark - ask any player about when they've had a bad game, it's still in there somewhere in the back of your mind."
Defeat

"If any player has a bad game it's there in the back of your mind in the next game. There's always a hangover. It is like a wounded animal in a way, as you want to get out there as quick as possible and rectify it."
Mind
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