Football Quotes · Page 177

I race to win, not to please people

— Bernard Hinault

In a World Cup you don't have anywhere to hide.

— Dale Steyn

I feel like I am a valuable player.

— Brook Lopez

Whatever you compromise to gain, you will lose.

— Myles Munroe

I want to be playing and enjoying my football.

— Lukas Podolski

Basketball is my escape.

— John Wall

“Know one likes winning more than me!”

— Joel Quenville

I don't trade for excitement; I trade to win

— Larry Hite

Basketball has so much showboating you'd think it was invented by Jerome Kern.

— Art Spander

I've always won. I've won the state championship, national championship, all that stuff.

— Jahlil Okafor

I have to say: When it comes to dealing with players, Ancelotti is untouchable.

— Antonio Rudiger

To be given a fresh start at a new club like Chelsea, it's unbelievable for me.

— Ross Barkley

I definitely don't want to do anything associated with the NFL.

— Ryan Leaf

I'm a very competitive type, so I want to win the fight first of everything.

— Demian Maia

The Packers have lots of owners nobody knows instead of one owner who doesnt know squat.

— Jim McMahon

Most of basketball is in the mind. But it helps to have big hands.

— Scottie Pippen

I have never thought of a scenario where international football was not a massive part of our [England] game.

— Michael Owen

I am happy to be a role model for anybody - whether they are black, white, yellow, pink or purple.

— Paul Ince

I just control what I can control - go out there and try to be the best I can be in the…

— Jordan Clarkson

We can never be like it was at Penn State with Joe Paterno. That was an anomaly in an of itself.

— James Brown

I play quite an old-fashioned game of poker. It's a lot about getting a sense of people at the table rather than…

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

That's Steve Howey's third-ever League goal and he's never scored more than two in a season before.

— Jeff Stelling

Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get…

— Leo Durocher

I know what I can bring to the table. I have done it all my career, but every team you need something…

— Ricky Rubio

We talk about all this roughing the quarterback stuff and it's like, 'Dude, trust me - I'm on the side of the…

— Blake Bortles

“Pep organised his attack (creating the conditions for one v ones, or looking for superiority across the pitch) in a way that…

— Guillem Balague

Troyes was a family club and had little to do with the media. Then I arrived in a place where I my…

— Blaise Matuidi

I love fast breaks, and I love playing full-court basketball, but offensively in the half court, I kind of take my time,…

— Mohamed Bamba

As a fan, Kirk Cousins has this very quiet, composed, confident demeanor that seems to be pretty even-keeled. We don't see him…

— Sean Doolittle

Let others cheer the winning man, Theres one I hold worth while; Tis he who does the best he can Then loses…

— Ritu Ghatourey

That's one thing that I've always wanted: to make my own decisions and not to be pushed. That has happened in my…

— Xabi Alonso

As a young boy growing up it was my dream to play for Australia and to pull on the famous green and…

— Mile Jedinak

I liked soccer. I played it for two years.

— Gennady Golovkin

“Hammer down protocol is a loss-loss solution.”

— Toba Beta

I feel that I can be a regular at Watford.

— Gerard Deulofeu

I like to win at everything I do.

— Josh Koscheck

I don't know why Mourinho didn't trust me.

— Andre Schurrle

Anything that's truly competitive, I love.

— Zach Ertz

I am by no means an expert in basketball.

— James L. Dolan

You know, I mentor a few younger athletes.

— Jason Collins