(noun) A stroke; a blow.
"Second place is meaningless. You can't always be first, but you have to believe that you should have been - that you were never beaten - that time just ran out on you."
"If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten."
"Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door."
"I've never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head."
"Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience."
"I’ve always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds."
"You never win a game unless you beat the guy in front of you. The score on the board doesn't mean a thing. That's for the fans. You've got to win the war with the man in front of you. You've got to get your man."
"That's the way you feel when you're beaten inside. You don't feel angry at those who've beaten you. You just feel ashamed."
"You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all."
"Beat your opponent where he is strongest, and you demoralize him."
"Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience."
"I've got a good mind to go out and join a club and beat you over the head with it."