Forfeits Quotes

Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood. - Mahatma Gandhi

Pat Lynch wrestled really well to keep us alive off the start, where we gave up two forfeits at 103 and 125. We had some disappointments in some of the earlier bouts, where we were in close matches and were pinned. - John Walizer

It's frustrating to lose a match like that. We beat them in just about every position. But to give up 12 points on forfeits is just too much to come back from. I'm pleased with our effort, but I'm just frustrated with the outcome. - Cody Sanderson

In this world of her parents' home, the soul-bride has been deluded by doubt. Attached to duality, she later comes to regret it. She forfeits both this world and the next, and even in her dreams, she does not find peace. - Sri Guru Granth Sahib

If you just have one dual meet and a kid forfeits, it does not make him better. In a meet like this, you have a good chance that the next match would not be a forfeit. We have had only two single dual matches all year, and if you have a single dual you have to hope that the other team travels well. - Joel Thomas

I was pretty happy to get a match. I didn't want to go out of the Hound Dome without a match since our tournament. I get a lot of forfeits just so they can keep dual meets close. It was nice of them to let me wrestle one more time here at the Hound Dome. - Russell Weakley

I thought we were a little flat tonight. It could have been because we had a forfeit right away. Against a good team like Spring-Ford, coming out giving up forfeits doesn't put you in a good spot to have things going your way. - Eric Dusko

I felt like we had an outside shot at Grove City or Central Crossing, but it turned out that we lost some people and that hurt us. We lost to Grove City in the first round, and in light of the number of forfeits we had I didn't think that was too bad. Against Central Crossing we just never got anything going. - Roger Branham

He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say. He is impelled by inertia, rather than curiosity, and nothing is more unlike the submissive apathy with which he hears his fate revealed than the alert dexterity with which the man of courage lays hands on the future. - Walter Benjamin