Success Quote by Graham Roberts

It lands like a shrug with bruises under it: the classic post-defeat pivot from certainty to coping. "I thought we were going to win" is a small, human confession of misplaced confidence, the kind that invites sympathy because it risks sounding naive. Then the sentence swerves into management-speak - "we won't take the disappointments, we will take the positives" - a rhetorical gear change designed to turn raw feeling into something usable.

The intent is damage control, but not only for the audience. The repeated "we" is the real tell: this is collective therapy performed in public, a way to keep a group from splintering into blame. The grammar is slightly off, which helps. It doesn't sound polished; it sounds improvised, spoken in the emotional hangover right after the final whistle, when people reach for any language that keeps them from saying what they mean ("we blew it"). That awkwardness reads as sincerity.

Subtextually, the line is about protecting morale and reputation at once. Refusing to "take" disappointments implies choice, as if emotions are luggage you can leave at the airport. It's optimistic, but also a little coercive: don't dwell, don't question, don't point fingers. In that sense it functions as a soft command disguised as resilience.

Coming from an actor, it also hints at performance as social glue. Actors are paid to find the line that keeps the scene moving. Here, the scene is failure, and the goal is to keep the story from becoming tragedy. The positives aren't just consolation; they're narrative control.