Defeat quotes

“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

“They're inviting us to defeat them! We must oblige them!”

John Neville - Hieronymus Karl Frederick Baron von Munchausen

“Ever heard the sound of one mouth screaming? I had for years - my own. I didn't want to go home. I didn't want to see anybody. I just needed to be invisible for a few days, to get down in the dirt, lose myself with all the others: the defeated, the demented and the damned. They are the real people of this world and I was proud to be in their...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ben Gazzara - Charles Serking

“The tanks have been wiped out by a wall of flames. Neither man nor his machines are able to stop this creature.”

Raymond Burr - Steve Martin

“Why kill you now, Prince of Troy, with no one here to see you fall?”

Brad Pitt - Achilles

“If you accept defeat, David, then that's what you'll get.”

Steve Williams - Larry Childers

“- President: What I do now, I do for the sake of the people of Earth. But there is one man on this planet who will never kneel before you.
- General Zod: Who is this imbecile? Where is he?
- President: I wish I knew.”

E.G. Marshall - The President
Terence Stamp - General Zod

“- Divatox: You mark my words, Rygog, the Power Rangers will pay for this one day! I never accept defeat!
- Rygog: Right, no defeat! So what do we do now?
- Divatox: Run!”
Hilary Shepard - Divatox
Ed Neil - Rygog

“There is no defeat in death, Master Bruce. Victory comes in defending what we know is right while we still live.”
Michael Gough - Alfred Pennyworth

“Luke, remember, when you fall on your face you're still moving forward.”
Leslie William Nielsen - Father Jebedaiah Mayii

“Can you imagine what it feels like to be alive for thousands of years, and then realize you're actually going to die, 'cause some self-righteous cop decided that he was going to save the fucking world?”

“Our next defeat is scheduled for next Friday, 8 o'clock.”
Edmond Clay - Football Announcer

“Victory is the same as defeat. It's giving in to destructive competitive urges.”
Christopher Eccleston - David Stephens

“Admit defeat and defeat will surely admit you into permanent custody, my man.”

Vicki Lewis - Beret Girl

The Battle of Isandhlwana was recorded in history as the worst defeat ever inflicted on a modern army by native troops. In parliament, upon the downfall of his government, British Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, asked the question: "Who are these Zulus, who are these remarkable people who defeat our generals, convert our bishops and who on... (continue)(continue reading)

“He didn't teach you how to win, he taught you how not to lose. That's nothing to be proud of. You're playing not to lose, Josh. You've got to risk losing. You've got to risk everything. You've got to go to the edge of defeat. That's where you want to be, boy - on the edge of defeat.”

Laurence Fishburne - Vinnie

“If you let yourself be defeated by them, just because you are too fair to hit back the same way they hit at you, there won't be any methods but Nazi methods!”

Anton Walbrook - Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff

“Maybe everything is already too late.”
Liv Ullmann - Eva

“Sabotage is the only weapon left to a defeated people.”
Charles Laughton - Albert Lory