“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.”— Giulio Douhet
“Once we suffer a battlefield defeat, we shall have lost everything. We’ll have suffered a major setback to our prestige, and the consequences of this may be paid for decades.”— George Ball
“Maybe you haven't been keeping up on current events, but we just got our asses kicked, pal!”— Michael Biehn
“The greatest defeat, in anything, is to forget, and above all to forget what it is that has smashed you.”— Louis-Ferdinand Céline
“Sometimes in football you have to hold your hand up and say, 'Yeah, they're better than us.'”— Sir Alex Ferguson
“In the end, it was not the quality of our planes, but the overwhelming quantity of the enemy's that defeated us.”— Adolf Galland
“There was no alternative for Lee, and the great soldier accepted the crushing fate to which his army was doomed.”— John Brown Gordon