Christian Laettner Quotes

It's great when you can challenge yourself against the top players in tense situations. I've always enjoyed it.

You love the competitive one-on-one aspect, where you look across the net, and you're trying to beat your opponent. You're doing everything you physically can to win on that day.

I like a match that shows strength, stamina, scientific technique.

There is a battle between me and Lin Dan and Lee Chong Wei. We always do our best.

I love playing against my friend D-Rose.

I know it's just sport; it's just tennis.

It's the same thing I have been doing since I was 5, playing the game of football. Going out there when my number is called and trying to make plays.

There is no life without sport and no sport without competition.

I'm very competitive. I remember being 4 years old trying to out-chug my dad in a milk-chugging contest. It's been in my blood.

I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.

I know Andy Roddick's probably tired about me talking about how many times I beat him when we were kids.

If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose.

Everyone must know by now that the aim of Scrabble is to gain the moral high ground, the loser being the first player to slam the board shut and upset all the letters over the floor.

I just loved to play. I liked to study the other ballplayers. I could talk about it for ages, because I played professional ball for 20 years, and I was still learning when I quit.

Playing football, I'm getting chills just thinking about it. That first knock of the game, you are going on kickoff, and you are just trying to smack somebody just as hard as you can. That's how I play baseball. I want to hit you.

Sports is like a war without the killing.

I like the ball in a big game. I'm not afraid to take it.

I played baseball, and that's pretty much it. Basketball came late, this was, basketball was the sport that I tried to master, I kind of mastered baseball, so basketball was one of those things where I wanted to master this game, so that's why I probably play it the way I do.

There is plenty of time to win this game, and to thrash the Spaniards.

Football is a passionate game. It excites us.

We play very fine schools on any given day.

Those big matches, when you go through so much, are the best thing. Those matches are why you play tennis.

I love to play big games, it makes you a bigger player.

It's always a battle to play against Diego Costa.

There's obviously games and a history you have with guys that maybe you're a little more fired up to let them know if maybe you beat them on a play.