Patrick Vieira Quotes

Strikers never lose games... we have to be honest and say that.

Football is like a pyramid. It is easy to reach the top of the pyramid, but to stay there is the hardest part.

I think winning games is my biggest asset, knowing how to win.

Great execution. That's what you have to do when you're playing great teams.

Each game we approach like a final. Today it was the opening game at home, we won and showed outstanding football qualities. We will be preparing for the next game the same way.

Upsetting the dope is a favorite pastime in baseball. Past performances count for but little in the national pastime. Reputations don't get you anywhere. A club is judged solely on results, and to get results, you must win ball games.

I'm just super competitive. Squash, tennis, water skiing, computer games... Even if I played you at pool, I'd have to win.

I like to win my challenge. That's English football as well, but I am not a dirty player.

You always want to give yourself an edge, want to help your team win. That's pretty much going to preparation.

I'm just trying to win something... I play with a chip on my shoulder, a real passion.

In football, it is not important how you win, it is important that you win.

If you play for Manchester United, you have to be strong.

When you're in the semi-finals of the Champions League, you need to be really good and need a little bit of luck.

You can play perfect football, lots of one-touch stuff, and you lose. But that's not what you want, you want to win.

I mean, sometimes if you're not always going to win on the scoreboard, you want to make sure that you're there physically.

I match up against everybody well. I just have to stay consistent and keep going out there winning fights.

I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.

As long as we're winning football games, I'm happy.

I'm desperately ambitious, and one of the things I haven't been able to do at Everton is win a trophy.

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.

We're here to win football games, so whatever that means, whatever that takes, that's what we're going to do.

I was a competitor as a football player and I'm a competitor as a coach.

It doesn't matter if it's preseason or a scrimmage. I'm trying to have a dominant performance, whether it's preseason first series or whenever I get out there.

If you are at United, you need a manager with a winning mentality. We had that with Ferguson. Mourinho has it. He wants to win every game.

My main thing over the years is to try to get on a team and be on a team that wins games.