From Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea —— Original sentence

Hemingway's other famous saying:

People can't be defeated. You can destroy a man, but you just can't beat him.

I can be destroyed, but I cannot be defeated.

You can destroy me, but you can never crush me.

People can't be defeated. You can destroy a man, but you just can't beat him.

A man is not born to be defeated. You can destroy him, but you cannot defeat him.