Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Quotes

When you start off a new tournament, you want to do well.

It is important to start winning international tournaments early and get that mentality into you. Then, hopefully, you can take it on to the world stage.

For me, all I want to do is win. Whether I make a hundred tackles or one tackle, all I want to do is win and for the defense to perform well.

I cannot see a situation when I won't feel pressure to play well and win.

People used to talk to me about that and say, 'Rom doesn't play with passion.' I do, but I don't show it too much because in my mind, I'm a guy that thinks a lot about how to win the game. Sometimes I let the emotions just come now, and it helps me.

Obviously, you always want to win, but you want to win by skiing a race that you're proud of and you feel like you really challenged yourself and left it all out there.

The Olympics are a world apart from racing for a record. You put out of your mind pretty much what anyone else doing in the race.

If I'm not Top 10 or seeded every tournament, it really doesn't matter. I can beat anyone on a good day.

Each game we play, every game is a championship-game mindset.

Obviously you want to play hard all the time, but at different moments of the game you step it up even more.

I don't know what happens with other players or what is in their heads, but for me - just win.

When I'm on the field, I'm locked in, focused on my job. I try to have a positive play and try to get points on the board.

All top players have an edge to them.

The battle to win - on the pitch and in the boardroom - begins and ends in one's head.

I think something that has separated me from the rest of the competition - maybe it's just my way of thinking - I don't necessarily go into fights just wanting to win but to actually dominate. So when I don't feel like I dominate, sometimes I feel like a loser, I guess, you know, maybe in that perspective.

I have the highest goals for myself. That's going out there and being the best player on the floor every time. That's my mentality. If it's Michael Jordan, you know, that's the mentality I take to the court.

Some might say friendlies are unimportant, but we always try to win because we then maintain that positive mentality when the real competitions start.

Important in a big tournament is how you start. With a great match at the start, you can distance yourself from the unrest from outside. And it increases the respect among opponents.

I work better under pressure. I was the local badminton champion when I was a kid, and there was another girl who used to thrash me for the five days leading up to the tournament and then I would just nail her to the floor in the competition.

Just got to win games. You've just got to find ways to win games.

When you're going out with the attitude that you want to win, you can't get caught up in the style of play.

If any player in the world tells you he doesn't care about what the opponents do, he is lying.

I have no doubt in my abilities that I can beat any of the top ten guys. Once I'm focused I know I can beat them.

Regardless on winning the Cy Young, I have one goal that never changes, and that's to win every start.

From a mental standpoint, you can't play this game unless you mentally are clocked in and that's, 'I'm willing to do everything to my body, my mind to put myself so that I can win.'