Adam Thielen Quotes

I've been in basketball a long time, and nobody is more of a competitor than I am.

We might have, with Hockey Canada, an Aero Bar, a chocolate bar. 'Okay we're going to play for this chocolate bar.' Here you have guys who made millions of dollars, they're professional athletes, and they will fight tooth and nail to win. It's not necessarily for the chocolate bar. It's the competitive spirit.

I'm hungrier than those other guys out there. Every rebound is a personal challenge.

I don't look at football as a violent, barbaric sport. It's a very spiritual sport, especially for someone facing the challenges during a game: the fear of failure, the fear of getting too big an ego, of making a mistake and everybody criticizing you.

I'm a quiet guy, but on the pitch, it's different. You have to do everything you can to win and help your teammates.

But I am a basketball player going out there to compete, I am going to try to win no matter what. That is just in my blood.

I play this game to be the best tight end I can possibly be and win as many football games as I possibly can.

I've always thought of myself as the best defensive player in the league, and I want to play like the best defensive player in the league.

If I'm chosen for the Asian Cup, then I must help the team win. That's the bottom line.

I'm the type of player, I want to win a game.

I'm confident I can show exactly what I'm about, how much I care about football, and how I'd do anything to win.

I don't step back, that's football. It's about winning.

It's a team game, but you've got to have individuals that really want the ball and want the pressure of being there to help get in a position to win.

I can compete with anybody. I'm a true competitor. I'm a winner.

Football is all about self-confidence.

At Kentucky, you have to be a competitor. If you're not, you're going to look weak. You're going to look like you don't belong.

As a cricketer, I played on bravado and character. My personality was bound up with how I played the game.

One thing I get from competitive sports is that I am fiercely ambitious.

What a footballer wants above all else is to win, regardless of who the coach is.

I really enjoy being in the game for every single ball.

It was about being wanted, it was about winning, and it was about my passion for the game. I just loved it. I absolutely loved to compete and to step out onto that football field with my teammates.

You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.

You see so many different personalities and mind-sets in the world of sports, just like you do with actors.

I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

When I'm out on the football field, I have so much confidence in what I'm doing.