Lothar Matthaus 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.

If you play football and fans are booing or saying negative stuff, it makes me play better.

It is nice to have valid competition; it pushes you to do better.

I guarantee you that's what Jeff Gordon does. He uses everything the fans throw at him to stoke his fire and it drives him to be better at what he does.

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

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

I don't want to be one of those players who has a good career but couldn't get out of the first round.

I have a lot of competitive juices, and I want to go out and compete on the football field every day.

We had an opportunity to clinch a playoff berth and I think if that's not enough motivation I don't think you should be playing this game.

A good balance of winning and losing is important. If you just win all the time, you won't get anything out of it; having some tough losses can be really important.

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.

International sport is a lonely journey. You compete with one's self and try to grow as a cricketer.

The greatest players use anger as fuel. Michael Jordan played every night with something like road rage.

I live for competition. It makes my life complete.

Some people don't like competition because it makes them work harder, better.

I love to win, honestly... If you love to win, you should say it. And honestly, I'm hooked on it.

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.

When I started running, the pain barrier was very familiar to me, and I had no problem pushing beyond the pain. When for your whole life, every single workout, you are programmed to push beyond belief, it's really hard to just turn that off and kind of just be a social competitor.

Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude.

When I first started playing team sports, I was a little too sweet for my own good. I'd be in tears because I wasn't doing well. But the healthy competition really toughened me up.

If I win seven tournaments in a row, I get so confident I'm in a cloud. A loss gets me eager again.

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.

Being named Michael Jordan - I think growing up playing sports and having a name like Michael Jordan - and I was extremely competitive - I used to get teased a lot. But it made me want to strive for greatness and be able to compete at whatever I decided to do.

I am a competitor, and I want to win again and again.