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

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately triumph than to triumph in a cause that will ultimately fail

You must not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or insulting expression, nor show too much pleasure ; but endeavor to console your adversary, and make him less dissatisfied with himself by every kind and civil expression, that may be

Boxing purists, quite naturally, question Tyson's appetite for victory. Mills Lane should have stopped the fight before Tyson took a second helping

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys