Johan Santana Quotes

The No. 1 thing is you want to be able to win the game, and we're going to do whatever we have to do to win the game.

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

What I liked was to set the tone - set the pace for the team. I know when we're starting the game, I can get on and steal a base, then a guy bring me in. Then we're in the lead and in a good position to win. That was the most exciting thing - to help the team.

I want my team to be the best. I want my team to be the most attractive to play in the league.

When you get into the game, you're trying to win games. So you want your best players out there.

Each game, each series, there's so many different things that are going on and you have to find different ways to impact winning.

When you bring a winner onto your team, he knows how to win, he's going to help your team win, and that's the goal at the end of the day.

What's a priority is going out there and winning ballgames every week.

That's what I hope to put out onto the pitch - a team that knows how to win matches.

It's about the process. It's about getting better. 'Let's execute on this play, let's execute on this drive.' You do those things, and over the course of the season you'll get better as a team and you'll get to a point where hopefully you're playing at a high level to win the games that really become at another level.

Resourceful coaches strive to have more ways to win than the other team.

I want to help my team get to the playoffs, win, and run wild.

Every team that I've gone to has had trouble winning games. I guess that's what I've been put on this earth to do, to fix it.

I just keep thinking about putting up good numbers, playing hard and winning games.

The only difference between a winning team and a losing team is one game. The winning team can win two out of three games...the losing team can only win one out of three.

Look at great teams like Detroit a couple of years ago; they win the Stanley Cup and guys only score 25 goals, nobody has a really big season.

A championship team wins because it already has established players, while a talented team is just beginning to establish players.

I love to win. I'm very competitive in most games, but I think also the beauty of the game. There was something about it, the pieces, the shapes, something about them coordinating together and trying to get the other guy.

You can easily separate 'team guys' from 'me guys' by how they accept coaching. The guys that accept it are about winning

I remember when I first got into the league, I thought how it would be nice to have a year when you were the best. That means your team is probably winning.

Certainly our job as an offense to try to score points and that's running the ball, throwing the ball, whatever it is. Somehow, someway we've got to try to score points to help our team win. That's where the focus is and it's pretty easy just to focus on that.

The team with the best players usually does win - this is why you need to invest the majority of your time and energy in developing your people.

It's tough, it's not the scenario that we wanted for sure. I thought our desperation was there, we worked hard, but it was one game, a lot can happen, they're a good team, and unfortunately we didn't win. We had some bad bounces, and in one game those make a big difference, and unfortunately it didn't go our way. But if we play hard like that, we play desperate like that and control the puck the way we did down low, I like our chances against any team.

I don't know any other other team that got to the finals without two all stars.

I have my goals, I have some things I want to achieve next basketball season individually. But the number one thing is always winning games. If you win games then everything else will take care of itself. You know nobody wants to see you guys score 30 and then lose every game.