Comment from the defeated
Else clues• 'That was my best effort'
• Did my best
• Gave it my best
• That was my best effort, coach
• Comment after a failure, perhaps
• Comment after bombing
• Defeated one's phrase
• Defeated one's sigh
• Loser's lament
• Losing competitor's sighing comment
• Post-failure comment
• Self-consoling remark
• Self-consoling words
• Sigh after losing
• Sighed line from one just sidelined
• Start of a remark by Joan St. Onge
• Valiant-effort words
• Words Duval might have said after the 2000 British Open
• Words of resignation
• Words with a sigh