Top 35 Defeating Quotes

I love watching the Serengeti, the way lions live. The only way the king lion loses his crown is by somebody physically defeating him.

Castro was always using his athletes as a way of symbolically defeating the United States in the ring, and after these Cubans defeated Americans in the ring, they were turning down exorbitant sums to leave the island.

I think Donald Trump believes in defeating ISIS, resolving issues in the Middle East.

If you do a full-on workout and then eat McDonald’s or Wendy’s, you’re defeating the purpose. If you put good things into your body while working out, you’ll see results.

What we achieved under General Petraeus up through 2011, and defeating this threat that we faced out there, I mean, once we decided to come out of there, we squandered an enormous opportunity that, frankly, the military did actually provide our nation and provided the Middle East.

I think defeating Fox – and more importantly, getting the rest of the media to understand they do not do legitimate news – is very important. I hope to do that through pointing out their hypocrisy, propaganda, and general foolishness. But I also plan to beat them in the ratings and make them fear me.

President-elect Donald Trump says he’s looking for a simple plan for defeating ISIS within his first 30 days of taking office. But even as ISIS has suffered setbacks in Iraq and Syria, its violent ideology continues to spread.

When you defeat somebody, you’re not really defeating them: they’re defeating themselves.

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Even after defeating India, I still have the highest respect for them as opponents.

But after defeating Carlos Condit, I’ve shown I deserve to have a title shot.

This idea of, there’s a locked door; how do you open it? You don’t necessarily care what’s behind it; you’re just more excited about opening the lock… It’s not about finding the treasure; it’s more about defeating the puzzle.

I won’t back down. I get a satisfaction from being tested and defeating the test.

Tyson Fury should be looked at as someone who conquered the world, defeating a nine-year king in Wladimir Klitschko.

I’ve done things, from the Olympics to defeating two of the greatest fighters of all time.

I convened the first-ever national training conference for prosecutors on how to promote and deal with hate crime issues in terms of prosecutions and also protocol for defeating the gay panic defense.

Defeating a terrorist organization is like fighting a forest fire; there’s never a clear moment of victory, and even after you’ve won, you have to watch carefully.

In 1817, Czar Alexander I personally founded the Society of Israelite Christians but had less luck defeating Judaism than he’d had defeating Napoleon; gentile serfs and merchants in areas bordering the Pale even showed disturbing new signs of ‘Judaizing.’

Donald Trump is defeating himself. He is ensuring that Hillary Clinton is elected. I think they would both be absolutely terrible.

Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher did more to liberate people by defeating the Soviet Union and freeing eastern Europe than the Obamas, the Clintons, and Kerrys of this world ever have. They were all on the wrong side of that debate.

Broadway is so defeating for the most part that it doesn’t encourage people to be as tenacious as they should be.

Unless you’re involved with thinking about what you’re doing, you end up doing the same thing over and over, and that becomes tedious and, in the end, defeating.

One of the great moments for me was Riddick Bowe defeating Evander Holyfield to win the world heavyweight title. That was a night when you thought, ‘Woah, this guy is special.’ But then after that Riddick never really fulfilled his potential.

We need to get serious about defeating ISIS; we just aren’t serious about it yet. I would be very serious about getting it done. I know how to do it. We need to take the fight to them on the battlefield in a more serious way.

Trying to get my music performed live by bar bands was a self defeating experience. It really just distracted me from what I should’ve been doing all along, writing and recording.

We will never forget the passengers of Flight 93, who courageously confronted the terrorists, defeating another planned attack on America. They are the heroes for our times.

Military history shows air action only cannot achieve the goal of defeating an enemy.

Hollywood stops hiring their star leading ladies when they turn 40. It’s very defeating.

I believe most evangelicals know that defeating Obama is at heart of our country’s future.

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

There is no doubt that our nation’s security and defeating terrorism trump all other priorities.

We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building up Iraqi security forces, and handing over Iraq to the Iraqi people.

I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o’clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill.

Obviously, winning the World Heavyweight Championship was a memorable moment, but nothing tops the feeling of defeating the Undertaker.

I circumnavigated the globe while I was sitting in a prison. It was wonderful because I kept defeating those walls they put around me.