Quotes About Winning

The only place that matters is first.

There is no such thing as second place. Either you're first or you're nothing.

I'd love to say second place is great, but it's not.

There are only two places in the league - first place and no place.

Anytime you have a Pat Riley running things, calling the shots, you are not going to question things because he has been through it. He knows what it is all about and what it takes to win. All we have to do on our end is play basketball because we know the right calls and the right decisions are going to be made up top.

It's easy to play football when everything is going well and you are winning games back to back, winning, winning, it's the best feeling ever, you can go out there and express yourself you feel like you are not going to make mistakes.

You play football to go out there and win - that's the bottom line.

When you train a massive club or little third division outfit, when you go out to play football in any situation, it is always about winning.

My job is to go out there and play football. My job is to go out there and win football games.

The big thing is to win, but to look at the long-term, you need one way to play, and the philosophy is not only to put 11 players on the pitch and play football.

If you play football and you're comfortable with losing, you shouldn't be playing football.

I like to play golf. You know, make a little money, lose a little money. Get 10 bucks, lose 20 bucks.

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've always felt like I'm a winning player. Like I deserved it to be in the playoffs - to be battling.

I just want to help, first of all, the Chicago Fire to grow, to change the mentality to a winning team, and to reach the playoffs. That's my goal. But also to change the game style into a team which is able to control every opponent.

I don't just want to make the playoffs or get to the first or second round. When I compete or make it to the playoffs, I expect to win every time.

I don't pay attention to accolades or any of that stuff because I think it can serve as a distraction, so for me, I just focus on winning games, trying to make the playoffs.

You know, the thing about the great receivers? They won. They were in the playoffs. They were making big plays.

Once you get a taste of winning, a taste of the playoffs, you just want to do that even more.

I want to get to world No. 1. I want to win multiple majors. Plus, I hate losing - like, I really hate losing.

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.

If I were a high school coach, I would put my best players on offense. The best athletes on my team, I would give them the ball and score points. I wouldn't play them on defense. I would play them where they can get the ball and score points.

Scoring a lot of points is great when you win, but when you lose it doesn't matter.

The bottom line is we need to score points, and we need to score a lot of them.