I wasn't trying to...
the lie losers tell after any kind of battle. If you lose, you say 'I wasn't trying.' If you win, you act like you did it just for fun. You're a fraud, and everyone knows it.
'I wasn't trying, I swear!' he said after getting smacked in the face by a fourth grader.
'I wasn't trying, I just woke up like this,' he said after losing a wrestling match to a guy who still had his pants on.
'I wasn't trying, I was just being nice,' he said after getting beaten in a game of COD by a kid who still uses a controller with a banana on it.