winning mindset quotes

My trainer don’t tell me nothing between rounds. I don’t allow him to. I fight the fight. All I want to know is did I win the round. It’s too late for advice.

Once you get on the playing field it’s not about whether you’re liked or not liked. All that matters is to play at a high level and do whatever it takes to help your team win. That’s what it’s about.

I tend not to really think about what other people say. I’d rather just try and focus on what I’m doing, try and win basically.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you’re going to win.

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

I think that at the start of a game, you’re always playing to win, and then maybe if you’re ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

No cricket team in the world depends on one or two players. The team always plays to win.

It kills me to lose. If I’m a troublemaker, and I don’t think that my temper makes me one, then it’s because I can’t stand losing. That’s the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn’t give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.

I focus on one thing and one thing only – that’s trying to win as many championships as I can.

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

I can’t ever remember sitting around and saying, ‚gosh let’s hurry up and get these debates going, that’ll win it for me.‘ Nope.