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'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

• Comment from the defeated

• 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