Diana Lopez Quotes

I don't rank competitions - every single one is the Olympics to me.

To stay at the elite end of professional sport you need to show an awful lot of dedication.

I can honestly say I want to be one of the best to ever play the game.

I just want to be as good as I can be with any opponent I have and hear everyone say 'that was her best match ever.'

You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.

I am not trying my best because it is the Olympics. I try my best always.

Every game I've ever played, regardless if it was pre-season or Super Bowl, meant the same to me, and I laid it all on the line.

When you train six to seven hours a day to be the best in your sport, you don't want that to be overlooked. I don't train for my looks.

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

One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.

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 will do whatever it takes to win a football match.

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

The difference between mediocre, good and great is you're able to have the enthusiasm for prep, to work to prepare to win the same in January that you do in August, when everybody says they're excited.

It's nice to say you have goals and that you want to win championships. But until you get thrown into the fire, you can't truly grasp what it takes to accomplish those goals.

We gotta play hard and leave it all out there. Dive for lose balls, take charges, just do whatever it takes to win the game.

In order to be the champion, you've got to play the best, you've got to beat the best.

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.

It is not about being the greatest team in the world ever, it is about fighting for every run and wicket.

Every game I play, I play to the best of my ability and play like it's my last.

My deal, I want to be the best to ever play the game and I try to bring that same energy for my team, laying it all on the line for them.

Whatever games came my way, I tried to give my best, do whatever I could to win matches for the team, be it at the Ranji Trophy level, India A, IPL: this was always on my mind.

When Brazil take part in any competition they must always play to win.

I want to be a winner. But you can see Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Wayne Gretzky - that kind of people - where you can see and say yeah, this is players who win everything. I want to be in this page, too.

For me, winning isn't just about lifting the cup, the trophy - it's about giving your maximum, on and off the pitch.