Georginio Wijnaldum Quotes

It doesn't matter how pretty you look it's how many runs you get.

I'm very proud because, all my life, I worked very hard to be a football player.

My goal is to be the best player on the field every down and every game. If I achieve that, then I will achieve any goal I set forth.

I always said the same: I try to do my best, to support the team, to score goals, to win victories.

I'm a big sports fan even outside of baseball. I love watching guys that are supposed to be great, and are great, live up to the expectations. So I really appreciate consistency.

You go out on the field every day and play hard to accomplish goals.

I could never have dreamt of the kind of career I had, but I was always happy with the ball in my hands or at my feet.

If you play football, you have to try to do the maximum, so I'm always doing the maximum for myself because, after my football career, I want to sit down and think I did something good.

I expect to play at an All-Star defensive level, and everything else will come.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

I just want to be as successful as I can in football.

My jersey hanging from the ceiling is going to be a symbol of the hard work of the people I played with.

But I want you to know that what I'm doing here I'm doing as a ballplayer, a major league ballplayer.

I don't wish I did anything differently. The most important thing to me was to play baseball.

You know, I never looked down the road and said, 'Hey look, one day, the Hall of Fame.' It's always about playing each and every game 100 percent and I thank my teammates for getting me into the Hall because football is a team sport, not an individual sport.

My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons.

I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.

I just want to continue to play great football - that's all that matters. I don't really care about the accolades or any of that.

Sports were a big part of my life. I was the captain of the basketball team in high school, and captain of the basketball team at Princeton.

I played for 18 years, but the only thing that meant anything to me was the World Series.

God blessed me to play football.

Win or lose today I am proud of the way my boys have played in the tournament.

We have to win that game. But we have to win every game, that's the way it's always been.

Football taught me how hard you had to work to achieve something.

Al Kaline bought a tee and a ball and swung at it all winter. Look where it got him: the Hall of Fame.