Quotes About Determination

It annoys me a little when people try to be positive when I don't play my best. I play to win. I'm like that. I'm like any other player. I'm never happy.

My goal is to the best player in the NBA. That's what I'm focusing on each and every day.

You want the players in the locker room to know you as that kid that fights 'til the end, has that never-say-die attitude.

I'm just going to get out there and on court, give it my all and that's what I want to do every day. That's what I want to be known for, and that's what I want other players to know about me, that I'm never going to give up.

You have to go into each match believing you can beat all of the players.

I know how good I can be. I'm not being big-headed. I think all players have to have that confidence and self-belief.

Every time I'm on the court, I think I'm the best player. That's the mind-set a lot of players should have.

For us players, we just go into each game trying to win it and see where it takes us.

I remember some stories had a very big impact on me, like 'The Little Train That Could,' which is about the importance of not giving up, and 'Little Toot,' about a playful tugboat in the New York harbor.

I was growing up in Kitchener, practising every day on my playground - and it's all about how bad you want it.

When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn't be playing football.

You can't be playing halfway or you are gonna get halfway results.

The power of music, and the power of your determination in life, especially when you're playing extreme metal like this... it just conquers. It conquers everything.

When I'm playing bad, I need to just hit the green.

When you're playing the best player in the world, you've got to play well.

I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.

Being a playoff team that got championships, it's going to bring something different out of you.

Every game is a playoff game.

Whenever we're all getting ready for a playoff game, you know how serious those games are, and you try to motivate your guys. There's a lot of emotion that goes into those games, and when I play, it's all about winning, and it's all about doing whatever it takes to fire guys up and to get that emotion running.

I think we have played like a playoff team for some time. We can still do better. The key thing right now is to look forward, not behind you.

That's what you work all season for, to get into the playoff games, and you don't want to blow it.

That's playoff basketball. Can you not get too happy after a win? Can you understand how determined the team is going to be after a loss and bring the energy you need to bring?

I mean, that's playoff hockey. You're not going to dominate every game, you're not going to score every goal.

I think one of the hardest times was when I almost won a Web.com tour event in 2016 after my freshman year. I lost in a playoff to Ollie Schniederjans and J.J. Spaun. I mean, who knows what could've happened if I'd won?