Pau Gasol Quotes

We're not necessarily going to be more athletic than the other team, but we can outwork them, and we can be tougher than they are.

Be aggressive... That's the type of pitcher I am. I go as hard as I can for as long as I can and see where the cards fall.

I have to play a bit of a physical game and try to work harder than everyone else.

I'm a competitor. I never doubt myself.

If I go down, it's never easy. At least my opponent knows they have to go to the end of the earth to take me out no matter what the circumstances. I do try to compete. Even if it's not your best day, I just try to walk off the court knowing I gave 100,000 percent.

When you choose to be a competitor you choose to be a survivor. When you choose to compete, you make the conscious decision to find out what your real limits are, not just what you think they are.

Every time I ran the mile I was aware of my own weakness, there was some opponent who could give me a hell of a fight, so I never went into a race with a sense of invincibility. I always had that feeling of fragility and nerves which made me run faster.

If you got anything to you at all as an athlete and a competitor, you don't care what the circumstances are. You still got competition.

In wrestling, there is no retreat. No way to slow things down. In wrestling, you advance and advance, and being tired is just a lie to make the other guy think he can relax. It's so hard - harder than anything I've ever done.

I can work hard and be disciplined like a soldier, but I could never reach their level of fitness.

I just go out there and fight for every point, and then we see how far I can go.

I think I'm a really tough player.

When you're on court, you just want to win. You're a competitor.

As long as I am able to compete physically with the younger players, I am going to play.

We gotta play hard and leave it all out there. Dive for lose balls, take charges, just do whatever it takes to win the game.

People sometimes have a false view of track and field, that it's kind of soft and kind of friendly. And guys aren't necessarily laughing and joking, but everyone's just friendly and 'ha ha, he he.' I just came in and just was like, 'Nah, I don't know what y'all talking about, but every single time I step on the line, I'm trying to win.'

Just wanting to play, I think that's my biggest attribute, just wanting to play through whatever I have to in order to go out and compete.

I'm going to fight every play.

If you're athletic and you can run, you can play defense. It's a mindset.

Once I've got my legs under me and I'm fit and healthy, I'm a hard, hard man to beat.

The most important for me, it's to fight, give my best on court until the last point.

This is the NBA; you can't stop everybody from scoring 30. But that 30? They're going to work for every point they get. And that's my mindset.

I can always fight the best in the world.

The thing that's so tough about 'Broken Skull Challenge' is you're going head-to-head with another human being who may or may not be stronger than you and may or may not want it more than you.

I don't step back, that's football. It's about winning.