Bart Starr Quotes

If you got anything to you at all as an athlete and a competitor, you don't care what the circumstances are. You still got competition.

I don't play to sweat, I play to win.

In playing or managing, the game of ball is only fun for me when I'm out in front and winning. I don't give a hill of beans for the rest of the game.

I have always and will continue to put myself in the mix at the end of every tournament. That's what I play for.

I have to win, even if I'm just playing ping pong.

Match play really exposes your character and how much of a will to win you have in your heart.

You have to go into each match believing you can beat all of the players.

The pool is terrible, but that doesn't have much to do with my record swims. That's all mental attitude.

I've been competitive from day one. It's in my nature. Whether people recognize that or not, I don't know how they can't. I'm not gonna go out there and try to hurt somebody or win by all means. But if it's up in the air, I'm gonna try harder than you to get it done.

Win at all cost. That's why I love playing the game.

I want to win games; I don't want to lose games.

A lot of people say they're competitive, and they think that means they scream and yell when they lose. I'm not like that. I don't scream and yell. I just win. At anything I do, I win.

If the play is drawn up for me, you better believe I'm going to go and try to win the game.

Whenever you go into a game, you want to win, and you want to come out victorious in any way.

Every moment, every practice, every game, everywhere; I just love competing. Competition is in my DNA.

I don't really play off nerves. I just want to win.

Anything I do that's competitive, I try to win. That's the way I've always been, and I like to keep it that way no matter what I'm doing.

We always go into a game to win.

That's what baseball is all about right there, a matter of will.

They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.

What makes a really great fighter is a combination of ingredients: one is everything physical that you can do, and the other is what's mentally there for you. And I think that comes down to how big your heart is and what's driving you.

I always tried to win. I was as competitive as I am today.

The only pressure I feel is how I can contribute to help my team win the match. Of course, there is always the pressure to score, but then doesn't it eventually help your team win? Frankly, I don't let these things affect 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.

Every time I take the mound, I try to win. So that's what I'm trying to do.