"Not in the clamour of the crowded street, Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"It ain't over til it's over." - Berra, Yogi [Lawrence Peter] (1925- ) on playing hard, in 'Yogi, It Ain't Over...' (1990) 1973

"In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail." - Lombardi, Vince (1913-1970)

"It's not whether you get knocked down. It's whether you get up again." - Lombardi, Vince (1913-1970)

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in that gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." - Roosevelt, Theodore

"Somewhere in the world there is 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." - Steinbeck, John