Ashley Young Quotes

Every year, you have to have the feeling to achieve the Champions League. Otherwise, we should stop playing football.

You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward.

The hunger to win must not die... The appetite has to remain big.

There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.

I'm just hungry to win.

You have to show you have ambition as a team, as a group of players; show you want to win. Otherwise, in my opinion, you can't win a tournament.

Always, you have these objectives when you are young. You think you can be the best, and that's what I have to be because, if not, I'm not playing football.

It's always been there, that competitive instinct... I just want to win.

The preparation, commitment and desire to win will be no less than the last time I drove a grand prix car in anger.

They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.

I'm willing to fight, but I want to fight to win.

I was hell-bent on being a soccer player all through junior high and high school.

I met Tiger Woods, and I looked in his eyes - and I saw Derek Jeter. They don't have to tell people they're good. They just prove it by the way they love the competition.

The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard.

All I cared about in tennis was winning.

I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.

If there is one thing that all players have in common it is that winning, competitive gene; the ability to overcome obstacles and fight for what you want from your career.

I didn't want to settle or become complacent after winning a major, I wanted to stay hungry. It's easy to do. It's easy to win a big tournament and kind of get a little lazy, so it's been a good motivator for me to work a little harder.

I don't care how small the game. I want to win.

But there was no question in my mind that I was gonna still go for it. I was still going for the win. I wasn't skiing for second or third place today, and in the end I think that's probably what got me there.

The person that said winning isn't everything, never won anything.

There are only three million people in Uruguay, but there is such hunger for glory: you'll do anything to make it; you have that extra desire to run, to suffer. I can't explain our success, but I think that's a reason.

I knew my destiny was to be in the winner's circle. There were times along the way where I didn't make it there. But I felt my destiny was definitely to win big titles, win lots of titles.