Beaten Quotes

I had a good chance when I went to Beijing and the guy who beat me, I'd beaten him three weeks before and he went on to win silver.

I would rather have been beaten up in the media than live a life that wasn't happy.

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I'll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

I don't have high expectations anymore. Maybe they've just been beaten out of me.

Initially charged with assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest I was held for 36 hours, was beaten by cops and made to stand spread eagled against the cell wall for 12 hours with no food or water, until I collapsed. Everyone was strip searched on the way in.

The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think may happen doesn't happen. A champion is beaten, an unknown becomes a champion.

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

I think our police are excellent, probably because I have not done anything that has occasioned being beaten up by these good men.

Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten".

I have died many times. I have actually beaten Jesus Christ because he only died once.

I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death.

I wish I had the ability to crack wise, generally. You know, without getting punched. There's no way I could do it while getting beaten up. Definitely.

I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son.

I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.

To conquer the command of the air means victory; to be beaten in the air means defeat and acceptance of whatever terms the enemy may be pleased to impose.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.

There are two types of people in the world: people who are passionate about things, and people who've had their passion punched, beaten, or whatever out of them.

A few years ago, one of our singles got beaten out by Better Than Ezra. The label could only have one band at a time being taken to the right people at radio, and they opted for Better Than Ezra instead of us. Who knows.

I don't want to be remembered as a beaten champion.

We live in a country where people still get beaten to death because of their sexual orientation.

The autumn wind is a pirate. Blustering in from sea with a rollicking song he sweeps along swaggering boisterously. His face is weather beaten, he wears a hooded sash with a silver hat about his head... The autumn wind is a Raider, pillaging just for fun.

The pressure began to mount as I kept winning every time and people were anxious to see if I could be beaten.

It's extremely hard for athletes to accept what's happened to them sometimes. It's hard to be beaten by a small margin, and I've spoken with athletes who, for years afterward, have been tormented by the knowledge that, had they done something ever so slightly different, they could have been one-ten-thousandth of a second quicker.

There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.

If only my folks had beaten me, I could have gotten some material about my miserable childhood. But as it is, I've had a great life.

It goes without saying that when you're the manager of a Premiership club, you go eight miles down the road and get beaten by a team two divisions below you, it's disappointing.

We are beaten, we will make no bones about it; but we are not too badly beaten still to fight.

And I used to go the punk clubs such as a gay club in Poland Street that everyone would go to because it was the only place you could go to looking like that without getting beaten senseless.