"When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat."

Defeat, Explanations, Will

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"When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat."

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"The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest."

Steven Brust, American Author

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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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"A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means."

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"The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee."

Roy Acuff, American Musician

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"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."

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"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist."

Queen Victoria, British Royalty

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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."

Stafford Cripps, British Politician

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"One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat."

William F. Buckley, Jr., American Journalist

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"I would be going until I went over the bounds of reality and was then caught up in a profound wish to be dead without having to go through the shaming defeat of suicide."

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"You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game."

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"Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable."

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