Competition Focus Quotes

If it's a card game, or it's a preseason game, or it's a regular season game, I just go out there to try to win. For me, that's all I know how to do it and I'll never change that.

All us players can do is to win as many titles as possible.

That's why I train the way I train. I don't like to lose.

When I race, I don't think about it; it just happens.

Records are always something that will be achieved, but they're not our aim. Our aim is to win games and nothing more.

It doesn't eat at me. As a competitor, it drives you. It's hard to say this without someone saying, 'Golly, he doesn't care that much.' I want to win a championship for our team, for our organization. I want us to win one bad. But do I lose sleep over it? Or would I be miserable one day if I never did it? The answer is no.

You don't go into the game to compete. You go into each game to win.

As long as we're winning, I'm fine.

There's a lot of pageantry involved in opening day, flyovers, extra long TV breaks and stuff. To say that it's not important, more so than some other ones, it is. It's the first game of the year. but I got 30 starts to make. Each win or loss is equally as important.

We're not preparing to lose games.

I don't put on makeup when I'm getting ready for a game, because why would I? I am gearing up for battle. How is mascara or eyeliner going to help me win?

People might talk more about Real Madrid and Barcelona than about Atletico, but what matters to me is what happens on the pitch. We compete with them year after year. I am not interested about the club's reputation.

To me, it doesn't matter who's out there: NBA basketball is great - if teams are putting out their best players and they're competing to win.

I'm a tournament guy; that's what I grew up doing.

When you're young, you don't think very far ahead. You just think in terms of the next day, the next week, the next competition. You don't think about injuries that could threaten your long-term health.

If we win 1-0, I don't care if the goalkeeper scores.

Too many people look on outscoring someone as winning, I never tried to get that across to my players.

For myself it's about winning competitions.

I'm not bothered about where I'm ranked in the world. I'm just worried about fighting the best people in the world and being a natural, original champion.

All the time, I said to my players, 'I don't care about the name on the badge or the name of the opponents.'

Our ambition is to win every game regardless of the opponent.

Why waste good shots in practice when you might need them in a match?

I just go and play basketball. All the media stuff, it's about looking forward to playing the game I love.

I think of all my fights as title fights. I don't think about what can come up afterwards.

If you want to be the best gymnast in the world, you have to love the moment. Every single moment that you are competing. Every skill, you have to be showing it off. If you aren't showing it off, what are you doing?