Defeat quotes

“A [person] who never quits is never defeated.”
Fred Thompson

“Sometimes when you win, you really lose, and sometimes when you lose, you really win, and sometimes when you win or lose, you actually tie, and sometimes when you tie, you actually win or lose. Winning or losing is all one organic mechanism, from which one extracts what one needs.”
Rosie Perez - Gloria Clemente

“- Johnny Murata: Ya know, it's kinda like one of those video games... you just defeated the first wave.
- Chris Kenner: Do you know you have moments when you're truly an asshole?”
Brandon Lee - Johnny Murata
Dolph Lundgren - Sgt. Chris Kenner

“To save a life in defeat is to earn victory and honor within. Your brother too, was a great fighter. I deeply regret your loss, and I offer myself as your brother.”

Simon Rhee - Dae Han

“- David Lewis: She's ungracious, she's arrogant and this year she's going to gag on the taste of unmitigated defeat.
- Paul Wheeler: She's nine.”
Peter Gallagher - David Lewis
Bruce Altman - Paul Wheeler

“- Rufus T. Firefly: Do you realize our army is facing disastrous defeat? What do you intend to do about it?
- Chicolini: I've done it already.
- Rufus T. Firefly: You've done what?
- Chicolini: I've changed to the other side.”
Groucho Marx - Rufus T. Firefly
Chico Marx - Chicolini

“Time takes everybody out; time's undefeated.”
Sylvester Stallone - Rocky Balboa

“This sword has been in my family for five generations. It has never known defeat. Until now.”

Rutger Hauer - Navarre

“It's really important to me that Cap never finds out about this!”

Anthony Mackie - Falcon

“- Delbert Grady: Your wife appears to be stronger than we imagined, Mr. Torrance. Somewhat more... resourceful. She seems to have got the better of you.
- Jack Torrance: For the moment, Mr. Grady. Only for the moment.”
Philip Stone - Grady
Jack Nicholson - Jack Torrance

“- Prince Bin Al Reeh: I could defeat any rider in the great race, if I was allowed to sit the back of Al-Hattal. Why am I not?
- Jazira: Because the sacred is not for sale, as are you.”
Saïd Taghmaoui - Prince Bin Al Reeh
Zuleikha Robinson - Jazira

“You think you're the center of the universe but you're not. We're just insignificant little specks, you and me. We're not gonna change the world. We're not gonna win the war. Nobody's gonna care when we die.”
Roy Dupuis - Becker

“This is what defeat looks like, bro. Your jihad is over.”
Jason Clarke - Dan

“- Flora Cranley: I want to help you.
- Dr. Jack Griffin aka The Invisible Man: There is nothing left for you to do, my dear, except to go. I shall come back. I swear, I shall come back because I shall defeat them.”
Gloria Stewart - Flora Cranley
Claude Rains - Dr. Jack Griffin aka The Invisible Man

“Yes, a demon can die, and Hobbes finally knew how to beat me at my own game.”

“The truth is that, while we Welsh like to believe that it was the mountains that beat the successive invaders, it was really the weather that comes with mountains. It was the rain that defeated every invader. Yes, simple rain.”
Nicholas McGaughey - Narrator

“A single grain of rice can tip the scale. One man may be the difference between victory and defeat.”
Pat Morita - The Emperor

“Have you ever seen me defeated? Don't you forget what I've been through and yet, I'm still standing.”
Madonna - Eva Perón

“The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it.”
Sylvester Stallone - Rocky Balboa

“Excuse me sir, but your ass is on fire. I bet you can't wait to get back home to Canada and stick it in the snow.”
Burt Reynolds - Bandit

“I am the only person who can stop them. If they are not stopped, it is only a matter of days, perhaps hours, before the secret is out of the country.”

Lucie Mannheim - Miss Smith

“- K.O. Stradivarius: Time out! Time out!
- Moe: I suppose you'll want the afternoon off.”

Curly Howard - Curley, aka K.O. Stradivarius
Moe Howard - Moe

“- Kurgan: You can't defeat me, Ramirez! I am the strongest!
- Ramirez: My cut has improved your voice!”
Clancy Brown - Kurgan
Sir Sean Connery - Ramirez

“- Basil of Baker Street: How could I have been so blind?
- Dr. David Q. Dawson: We all make mistakes, but we can't let that stop us. We have to.”

Barrie Ingham - Basil of Baker Street
Val Bettin - Dr. David Q. Dawson

“- Torrance Shipman: They humiliated us, on our own turf!
- Missy Pantone: We might have to have a rumble!”
Kirsten Dunst - Torrance Shipman
Eliza Dushku - Missy Pantone