Tyrann Mathieu Quotes

Excellence is a high performance over a long period of time. That's what I've tried to focus on.

I'm worried about doing my best, playing to my potential, helping out my teammates, and trying to win games for the Giants.

Obviously, you're being evaluated every single week, and you want to perform every single week. It's just going out there and doing everything possible to help the team win.

Obviously I want to be there at the end every time, winning games for the team.

My goal every year is to come in and be consistent. It doesn't matter if it's the first game of the year or it's the last game of the year.

All I'm interested in is putting in consistent performances. If awards come along with that, great. It means you are doing something right.

As long as I am progressing and trying to do my best for the team that is what really matters.

Show up, shut up, and shine.

I want to win the MVP. I feel like, at the end of the day, it might be an individual award, but when I play better, the team also does.

I just want to go out there and do what I can do, contribute in the ways that I can. Whether I get exposure or not, it's about winning.

For so long people have just taken what I do for granted. It is not easy to do year-in, year-out, to win Grand Slams and be No. 1.

You know, I never looked down the road and said, 'Hey look, one day, the Hall of Fame.' It's always about playing each and every game 100 percent and I thank my teammates for getting me into the Hall because football is a team sport, not an individual sport.

The bottom line, in the professional level, no matter where you go, there's going to be competition. That's what it is. At the end of the day, you're trying to put team first and make each other better.

We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.

There was no question that in our house doing well, doing it the right way, school, sports - there was an expectation. One of the things I've taken away from that is that I'm unafraid to expect a fair amount from people. It makes them so much better - you're doing them a disservice if you don't.

That's what really motivates me: to make my coaches proud, my teammates proud, and the fans proud.

I think if I wasn't in very high level, I never will be in the team. Cause I was high, in very high level.

We have played so well that the guys have really made my job fairly easy.

As far as talent goes, we had pretty much everything, and I think that's why this year was so successful.

When the year starts the objective is to win it all with the team, personal records are secondary.

You don't become the leading spinner of the team by just talking. You have to perform well consistently over a long period of time. I have bowled well and won games for India. That is why I am the No. 1 spinner. Every time I have taken the field, I have given my 100%.

I want to consistently play well and win titles. I'm only at the beginning.

I made a better decision in choosing my team. Sure, I had a bigger choice of players to choose from - but I couldn't have asked for a harder working group of players who did an incredible job.

I want to be the best. I want to be counted on by my teammates. I want to be counted on by this organization and the fans. I want to be someone they know is going to bring it every single week. I prepare to be the best.

No matter how talented you are or naturally gifted you are, there's no substitute to hard work if you got to maintain standards.