Revenge is the concern of those who are at some point or other beaten. I am not beaten, I told myself. No, not beaten. And victory is far more interesting to contemplate than revenge.
You look at the top five right now and see guys like Kelvin Gastelum, who I've beaten, Carlos Condit, who I've beaten, Robbie Lawler, who I've beaten. How are those guys more notable than I am, and I'm the champion of the world?
Why don't we actually fight for a woman's right even to complain about being beaten up. That is more important than driving. If a woman is beaten, they are told to go back to their homes - their fathers, husbands, brothers - to be beaten up again and locked up in the house.
I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten-the only time I have been beaten by the people.
We are beaten, we will make no bones about it; but we are not too badly beaten still to fight.
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.'
I am ashamed to report that my father, who is 73, has never been beaten by any of his four sons in golf. We have all become resigned to the fact that he has determined that he won't be beaten.
Truth, beaten down, may well rise again. But there's a reason it gets beaten down. Usually, we don't like it very much.
People tend to want to follow the beaten path. The difficulty is that the beaten path doesn't seem to be leading anywhere.
Gary Neville never seemed to know when he was beaten, and Ashley Cole never gets beaten.
Beaten paths are for beaten men.
There's no point in killing an opponent... There's no triumph over a corpse, but a beaten opponent, who will remain beaten every day of the remainder of their sad and wretched life, is something to treasure.
MMA is pretty tough on your mind because it's a sport that's not just about winning. You really want to win bad, but it's tough when you lose. You get beaten. And it really messes with your ego, because nobody wants to get beaten by other people physically. It's not just a game. You get beaten physically.
I don't mind getting beaten by Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather Jr and people like that, but I'd hate to go into a training camp with my heart not fully in it and risk getting beaten by somebody who shouldn't be beating me.
That's the way you feel when you're beaten inside. You don't feel angry at those who've beaten you. You just feel ashamed.