Metta World Peace Quotes

I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.

A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.

Once I'm at the arena with the guys in the dressing room, and in the bus, and on the plane, I'm a player. And I sit in the back with the players and I play cards and try to take their money.

When it's your will versus another person's will, the worst thing you can do is smile in their face when you're competing. That's what I tell our guys. Go have fun.

I don't have any concerns fighting a teammate. It's a sport. To me, it doesn't really mean anything.

I don't ever go into a fight wanting to hurt someone. I just want to show them that I am better than them, and if they get hurt, it's part of the sport.

I'm against the fighting. But sometimes when you're trying to help your team, trying to win the games, there are moments when you need to get a little aggressive.

It was fun winning with the Nasty Nine, but it didn't feel good going into every game with the Nasty Nine, I tell you that.

I think as competitors, that's why we get into this, to gain respect from the guys who have played the game, and you walk away and they say, 'He was a tough cover - that dude was nice.'

There is no such thing as friends on the field.

Sometimes you get into fights if a teammate is getting taken advantage of, sometimes just from competing and you feel someone takes a cheap shot. It's just the intensity. It's an intense game, sometimes you just get too fired up and fights happen.

We're here for one reason, and that's to win ballgames. You're going to have your feuding in there. But that is not going to carry over to the field. That's just the way it is.

Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.

It is my goal to win every time I play. But on the other hand, I also seek a balance of compassion and respect for the other players. I understand that everyone goes through difficult times, either mentally or physically, to cope with their life, to live the sport.

I just like to think of everyone as a happy family but in football that just doesn't exist.

Racing can still be good even though you don't push others off the track.

I think it is rare that one player really hates another player on a team.

What happens on the pitch stays on the pitch.

The Premier League is just a really cool league, the most interesting in the world, but you must always respect other big clubs and leagues.

I always go into a fight thinking the decision is going to be fair, and I relish these fights where the atmosphere is so fantastic.

A person who can go out and get 40 is going to get a lot more respect than somebody who goes out and holds somebody to two points. It's just the nature of the game. It doesn't bother me.

I think healthy competition is great, and I think WWE would agree.

It's important to take every game seriously, whatever the competition is.

The 'Team Up North' is something that we talk about every single day. And the best way to respect a rivalry is to work it every day. And we do.

What I don't like to see is a lot of chirping and guys just talking crap to each other. If you got something wrong with a guy, go see him.