John McEnroe Quotes

Powerful, quick and agile, Serena Williams thrives on winning.

There are ups and downs; that's part of tennis. But I'm up for the challenge.

I still think I have the speed and the variations also to win the matches, but its very good competition and also a great challenge for me too.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.

The lack of sweat to get a win is probably a record for me.

All I cared about in tennis was winning.

When I go out on court, I don't care what I look like. I don't care if I'm out of my bed as long as I win the match, and that's what I'm there for. It doesn't matter what I'm wearing, it doesn't matter what I look, it doesn't matter what my hair feels like. All I feel is the moment I have to play well, give my 100% and win the match.

I don't rank competitions - every single one is the Olympics to me.

I certainly don't lose any sleep if I lose a tennis match.

It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.

Even if I play backgammon with my coach, I hate to lose. I won't talk to him for, like, an hour. So imagine how it feels when you lose at tennis. That makes me determined not to lose because I hate it so much. Even at a set down and match point, I always believe I can come back.

I do like to play people I wouldn't want to spend five minutes in a room with.

I always had that, even when I was a kid in a go-kart or when I was playing soccer or tennis: that need of winning. It was there all my life, and it's still there now.

The Williams girls compete extremely hard on court because they hate losing - it's just that they haven't played an awful lot of tennis over the years.

I'm very easy-going off court, but I really want to win once I'm walking on to the court.

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

Just wanting to play, I think that's my biggest attribute, just wanting to play through whatever I have to in order to go out and compete.

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

The most important for me, it's to fight, give my best on court until the last point.

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

You can't hold up in a FIBA game if you don't have great competitive spirit.

It's always been there, that competitive instinct... I just want to win.

From when I started to play with a ball I wanted to win everything.

I've always been very competitive, and I've always had this desire to win my entire life. I guess when it comes to being in the cage, especially, I just hate losing more than I like to win. The idea of someone beating me just doesn't sit well.

I'm the kind of competitor where if I'm able to play, I've got to play.