Rashad Evans Quotes

Obviously, you always want to win, but you want to win by skiing a race that you're proud of and you feel like you really challenged yourself and left it all out there.

Good athletes will be there at good competitions, but I don't think about them; I just think of bettering my own time.

They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.

I've been to three Olympics and I don't feel I've ever quite achieved my best at any of them.

There's always motivation coming into Majors. If you can't get up and get excited to win one of these, then you probably shouldn't be playing golf.

I'm slightly influenced by sport in that I like the idea of trying, like an athlete, to keep absolutely ready. That's an emotional thing, almost. I don't mean physically, although I play tennis. But you try to keep yourself ready.

Obviously, I don't want to be in the box for over a hundred minutes during the season, but at the same time I have to try to play with an edge and battle out there.

I'm not feeling much pressure for the Olympics because I think I already have done many things in my career. I will try to enjoy my second Olympics.

The Olympics are a world apart from racing for a record. You put out of your mind pretty much what anyone else doing in the race.

I play this game to be the best tight end I can possibly be and win as many football games as I possibly can.

I've always thought of myself as the best defensive player in the league, and I want to play like the best defensive player in the league.

I've actually medalled in every single swimming meet except for the Olympics, so that's the goal. I want to get on that podium - I really do. But for me, that's not something I can control... so I will be happy with going out there and swimming a race that I'm proud of.

Some might say friendlies are unimportant, but we always try to win because we then maintain that positive mentality when the real competitions start.

Once you get out there and start playing basketball, whether the NBA or college or whatever arena you are playing in or who you are playing in front of, the juices start going, and you want to just go out there and play to the best of your abilities.

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

Against each player, I will give 100 per cent. I give my best in every game.

Whoever picks me up, I'm going to try and play my best for, to be the best player on the field at any given time.

I go into every game like I'm playing at school!

The Olympics, you're in front of the world, and yeah you're competing, but you want to look good. You want to have a great representation of who you are.

I'm lanky and I've always been lanky, but I was a really good athlete. Everything I've ever done in sports, I've done at a high level. I had a passion for what I was doing, and I had to be the best at everything.

In high school I just loved to compete and play sports. I didn't have a sport that I was going to say, 'Hey, I'm going to play this at the next level.' Whatever my best opportunity was was what I was going to do.

If you play hockey, you might as well win.

I just like people that bring in a very competitive mentality to pro wrestling.

People used to talk to me about that and say, 'Rom doesn't play with passion.' I do, but I don't show it too much because in my mind, I'm a guy that thinks a lot about how to win the game. Sometimes I let the emotions just come now, and it helps me.

When I was a rookie, what motivated me was trying to win Rookie of the Year and play the best that I could that I would compete so hard.