That was as difficult a loss as I've been associated with, ever.
But it obviously was a far more difficult loss than he was at first willing to let on.
It's a very difficult loss, especially to a team that was 0-and-whatever coming in.
He once held a seven-second press conference after a particularly difficult loss in Seattle.
Suicide can make the loss of a loved one especially difficult for survivors.
Instead, what looked like an impressive rally by the Yankees became just another difficult loss.
This is a very difficult loss for my team to take - we were at home.
They separated themselves from one another, making the streaks in the sky and the pain of loss even more difficult to bear.
But we have had other difficult losses where we've pulled up the bootstraps and come back.
It was a difficult loss, and the memory of it will be with us forever.