A competitive athlete is painful to look at; trying hard to become an animal rather than a man, he will never be as fast as a cheetah or as strong as an ox.
You want to score in every game and to fight hard.
Who doesn't want the ball? Everyone wants the ball; everyone wants to score.
People are still crying out for Lennox Lewis. They still want to see Lennox Lewis. That motivated me. I am still young. I have a couple fights left in me.
I think every footballer in the world wants to be on the pitch as much as possible.
As an athlete in my sport, you always want to go to an Olympics.
I want to be the guy on third down, whenever the coaches need a play, they call my number.
This is definitely a playoff team. There's no question about that. It's just a matter of how much we want it.
I love sports, and I'm a hugely competitive person.
Even if you have won it before, you just want to keep winning the Champions League. Every season, the ambition is to win the competition.
When I used to play, the manager would tell us that you are as good as your last performance. That made all the players more hungry to finish strong.
I've never been uncoachable. I've been tough to coach because I'm hypercompetitive and always get to the bottom of things.
You should never feel comfortable. There is something wrong if you are. You should always feel under threat, on the edge of your seat and pushing yourself. Win one and you want to win more. It's never-ending.
When I get in the car I love my wife and kids more than anything, but I'm not thinking about that side of things. I'm thinking about the car, I'm thinking about the race and I'm thinking about how to make the car faster.
I knew if I went home with the gold medal knowing that I could do better, I wasn't going to be very satisfied.
I enjoy the competition and the process of learning as we compete. The whole thing is just fascinating. I don't know what I'll do when I retire. When I go sailing, I look around ... anyone want to race? I just love competing as opposed to just going out and watching the sunset.
I am competitively aggressive. My dream since I was a young boy was to be an NFL quarterback. I am living that dream.
The best way I knew how was to give 110% and want it more than them, and walk on the court and every moment of the match feel like it was the end of the world, in a sense. So that worked for me in a lot of ways. There were times that it hurt me, but for the most part, it helped me.
Michael Jackson, he used to chase relevancy all the time. He always wanted to go a little bigger and better and keep that audience. There was never a point where Michael was going to feel like, 'I've got to play the Nokia, and that's all I'm going to pull in is the Nokia.' That would not have been acceptable.
Whenever I'm out on the basketball court, I lace up and just hoop. Whether it's in summertime, at practice, in the games, playoffs, every time I step out on the basketball court, I approach it the same way.
I'm just competitive. It doesn't matter what it is. I want to win.
The thing is, once you're in the Super Bowl, you want to win. As time goes on, you want to win more and more.
When I get in there, I'm not really worried about scoring. I'm just worried about playing as hard defense as I can play, making my opponent work, and then I know the offensive end will open up for me. I've been a scorer all my life, so that's what I try to pride myself on. It feels good.
What personality does it take to drive a car around a track 100 times or hit a ball back and forth. That's not very personality is it?
At the end of the day, when I step in that cage, I'm there to fight for my name. It's not about money; it's not about who's gonna win or lose. It's about me winning. That's all that matters.
