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Defeat Quote by Lolo Jones

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“I'm inspired by failure. The process of defeat – picking yourself back up again is the hardest thing in the world.”

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Harder than training for the Olympics, harder than graduating from college, has been to stay a virgin before marriage.

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Stepping on that line for me, it will be about facing my fears.

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Running was like the friend that never left. It was just always there.

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It took Dan Jansen, the speed skater, four Olympics to win a medal-a gold one at that!-but he never gave up. I won't, either.

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I didn't have a big-time contract out of college like most athletes. In fact I had no contract at all.

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A failure isn't a failure if it prepares you for success tomorrow.

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As a young girl, I just wanted to have fun and compete. There were no goals of becoming an Olympic athlete. I wanted to…

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A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat.

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Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's…

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The devil has been defeated, stop trying to defeat him. What we have left is the fight of faith, and it's a good fight!

Chris Oyakhilome

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If Pete’s (Sampras) child is a girl, my son will like her; if he’s a boy, my son will defeat him.

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All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated.

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Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to…

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After a big defeat, any player feels affected - it is about how long he needs to recover.

Gerardo Martino

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I have clearly said we faced terrorist enemies who use Islam to justify slaughtering innocent people and we have to stop them and we…

Hillary Clinton

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We know from this book entitled... What is it? Surrendered? Succumbed? I can never remember the title perform. And we learn from this book…

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The ultimate aim of Karate lies not in victory or defeat, but in the perfection of the character of its participants.

Gichin Funakoshi

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“It would seem no matter how progressive we get there are always those few who are backwards in their ways.”

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