Diego Costa Quotes

I always tried to win. I was as competitive as I am today.

I'm just a very tough person when I go on the court, and I really don't want to lose.

I was very competitive. I hated losing. No matter what, I had to win.

I always come out playing like I'm the underdog on the court. I never want anyone to catch up to me; that's just how I look at it.

I have a huge desire to win. That is why I am aggressive in a positive sense on the field.

Winning was everything to me. I hated to lose.

I think I was born with that desire to win and attention to detail.

I want to win and always have done since I was small. I don't know if it's in my blood or just my personality.

I have never gone into a competition wanting to lose. I have always gone in wanting to win.

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.

People just don't understand how obsessed I am with winning.

I know what it's like to win things. You need a certain type of player with a determination to win. You see it in the eyes.

I'm just competitive. It doesn't matter what it is. I want to win.

I'm somebody that has a very big competitive edge and a chip on my shoulder.

The hunger to win must not die... The appetite has to remain big.

It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.

I always had that, even when I was a kid in a go-kart or when I was playing soccer or tennis: that need of winning. It was there all my life, and it's still there now.

I've been competitive from day one. It's in my nature. Whether people recognize that or not, I don't know how they can't. I'm not gonna go out there and try to hurt somebody or win by all means. But if it's up in the air, I'm gonna try harder than you to get it done.

If you don't want to win, you don't want to be around me.

It doesn't matter if it's one person in the gym or 10,000, I've always played to win.

My motivation is like it is always, try to be the best and try to win, that is part of my character.

I'm a competitive guy, very. I don't like saying that about myself but people in the locker room say that about me. But I'm a competitive person and the GM, the coaches, those guys, they wouldn't like it if I was happy not to be playing.

I've always been the same. I've had the same mentality ever since I was playing with my friends at school. I want to win. I only want to win.

The mentality of wanting to win has come into my game more.

Great players, they always dig deep and have their will to win.