Quotes About Competition

I think if I just do what I do every day, on the extraordinary Olympic stage, I could be a podium contender.

I never think about records. I focus on my race and try to get onto the podium consistently. It's hard enough to do that.

Fourth is the worst position to finish. You just missed the podium.

Every single race that I get on the podium in biathlon, I'm shocked.

Whenever I was on the podium, it felt weird. I was obviously happy to have done well, but it wasn't truly happy from the bottom of my heart.

I want to be the guy that's taking names, on the podium, and winning events.

I remember seeing the Olympics when I was 13. I always wanted to know how it felt to stand on top of the podium hearing your country's anthem while watching your flag being raised in something you poured your heart and soul into.

I like the odds when I'm playing the point guard more.

Every team I play, I'm playing them like we playing the Golden State when they had Kevin Durant. Every point guard I play, I'm playing Steph Curry. Every shooting guard I'm playing, I'm playing James Harden. Every three-man I'm playing, I'm playing LeBron and KD.

You ask what position I play, I say point guard.

It used to be you a needed a true center to win championships, but now the point guard position holds just as much weight.

Every rookie that thought they was good, I went at them to make sure they knew I was the best point guard in the league, and they had to go through me. That's just the way I was.

There's always a good point guard in this league.

People are deciding - if they don't like a particular point of view or a particular paper, it goes out of business.

I think it's a completely good thing to want to do business, to want to make money and be a success in the marketplace, to get the attention of customers. I'm not in the business of pointing fingers or blaming companies, but there is a limit to everything.

I play along with 'Pointless' and I love 'The Chase.' I'm not bad either - geography, biology and history are my strong points.

If you play bad, you can win the games, but you have to play good and get the three points.

A person who can go out and get 40 is going to get a lot more respect than somebody who goes out and holds somebody to two points. It's just the nature of the game. It doesn't bother me.

I love the 1,500 meters. I knew that, if I had to do it to win, I'd run under 4:05. That means I could pick up 100 points, maybe even 150 points, on anybody in the world.

For me, it's about winning games. I'm trying to score more points than the other team. I don't really care how we do it.

Being at United, you always get quite disappointed if you don't get all three points, as you believe you can go into every single game and win it.

I guarantee you, if you could give me 10 points in all those seventh games against the Boston Celtics, instead of Bill Russell having 11 rings, I could've at least had nine or eight.

Sometimes when you miss out on points, it is a pity, it is a shame, because we tried to do everything in the game.

It just wasn't right the way they were behind by 25 points and then they're told to hold the ball.