“Assumptions equal a loss of pride and the sting of defeat.”

“...we are all wont to make mistakes, but if we learn from each trick, each error, and refuse to allow it to happen again, then the experience is not a loss, but a lifelong gain. Our pride may sting for the moment, but our future will be the better for it.”

“I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, " he explained. "I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - true equals - only when they both have equal confidence.”

“Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.”

“Faith draws the poison from every grief, takes the sting from every loss, and quenches the fire of every pain; and only faith can do it.”

“No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.”