Thon Maker Quotes

I'm going to go out and try to be the best player I can be and help the Chicago Bears win.

You get into sports with the idea that you want to win. If you aren't trying to win, what's the point in being involved?

We had no preconceived ideas. We were on this football team to go out and win ballgames and try to win a championship, that's all. To Brian and me, it was no big deal.

Everyone is committed to giving their best and to putting in 100 percent in every match to win.

You pay attention to detail. You try to win every time. You play tough. And when you play the right way and be accountable to each other, you're going to have success and enjoy the game that much more.

I must do my all, try to win every game.

I'm going to do my best to help the team play hard and help the team win... I'm just coming to play baseball.

For me, I want to win the World Cup. If that's not the goal then I don't think you should be playing.

I play hard and I play to win, and my team play for me because of the backing I show them.

I want to be part of a team that wants to win. Guys that are trusting each other, guys that don't mind playing hard.

When I play football, I try to win the game. That is part of me. That is who I am.

When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do.

I just want to continue to play football and be myself.

Whether it's a friendly match, or for points, or a final, or any game - I play the same. I'm always trying to be my best, first for my team, for myself, for the fans, and to try and win.

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.

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.

Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.

To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.

I'm just a ballplayer with one ambition, and that is to give all I've got to help my ball club win. I've never played any other way.

I've been in basketball a long time, and nobody is more of a competitor than I am.

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.

You know, I don't only play for the record books.

To me it was never about what I accomplished on the football field, it was about the way I played the game.

Football is about winning; it's that simple. You have to love what you do. If you're here for the money, than you don't belong here.