Dick Ebersol Quotes

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.

The Olympics are what I work for. They're why I spend so much time in the gym.

You want to do Olympics just like you do a pro football game or a basketball game? Be my guest. Watch it all fade away.

A college athlete is going to be competitive. You don't get to that level if you're not.

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

I would hope there would be a greater appreciation by casual sports fans of the incredible skill and passion of our players.

What does it prove, running in the AAU meet?

In big clubs, you always have competitions for places.

We'll do anything it takes to win a basketball game.

My goal is definitely a gold medal still in Rio.

It's impossible in heptathlon to have a proper rivalry - you're spending two days together and seven events and dedicate your life to it. It's like a marathon: two days of mental and physical exhaustion.

As a competitor, you're always taught that you want win championships. You want to put yourself in the best place to do that.

To me, it's just another game of football - 11 players, a grass pitch. Regardless what shirt I have on, it's important you win the game, and I'm competitive as anyone, and I want to win every game, whether it's a Sunday league game, a five-a-side tournament, or a World Cup qualifier.

When you become an athlete, you live in this bubble. You're in the world, but you're not in the world.

My biggest benching was before the 2012 Olympics. It kind of came out of nowhere. I just kind of had one bad half, 45 minutes, and it pretty much cost me my starting spot.

Growing up with brothers, I've always been a very competitive person and also very involved in sports. So when I was younger, whatever sport I was involved in, I wanted to go to the Olympics for that!

Anyone who's been the Olympic trials before is a veteran.

You now have these owners who are all successful businessmen, and they think they should be winning. They come in thinking that they should be winning. Some don't understand that only one team can win the league.

I don't watch cricket very much, but of course I enjoy whenever I see the sport, especially live, because of the energy in the stadium with the fans going crazy.

I want to score more goals, to play more games, but at the end of the day, the most important thing is that the team wins. The other things come with that.

It is difficult to single out any one player, as I aim to give my best against every single player that I have played so far against.

Some players feel that winning is everything and that losing is a disaster. Not me. I want the spectators to take home a good memory.

I think, bottom line, I have to be good enough to make the team. I have to bring something in and beat somebody else out, especially with a smaller roster for the Olympics.

I've never really been a numbers guy... I like to score, for sure... but my main thing is I want to win.

When you have a coach that is a competitor, that wants to win more than anything else, it really carries over to the team.