Niko Kovac Quotes

I live or die by how well I act.

Win with ability, not with numbers.

You're paid to perform. There is an outcome to a game and it doesn't matter how many goals you score. If you don't win, you don't have a good time.

We can say potential all we want, but at the end of the day, sports is about winning.

The thing I like most about football is it's a meritocracy.

When you play well, when you perform, you have to show every game that you are that good.

You always want to play with the best.

Everyone wants to perform.

If you hit .200 and you win or .300 and you win, it's all the same. Just so you win.

Obviously, you have to play well to keep your spot.

Whoever plays well on a given day, that player wins.

Talent is very hot.

You don't just accidentally show up in the World Series.

Whether I played marbles, whether I played football or slam anything else, I wanted to excel.

If you're good at it, you can win.

Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything that comes in second.

Where we can compete on merit, we do very well.

I suppose I'm happy when I know I've given a horse a good ride, no matter where it is. I like playing golf in the summer; I'm happy when I hit a good shot, and I enjoy watching Arsenal playing beautiful football, but overall I can't believe you can be happy when you're not winning. I honestly can't accept that.

Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything in second place.

Jim Cameron is proof that if you are good, you'll get promoted.

As far as talent goes, we had pretty much everything, and I think that's why this year was so successful.

There's no medals for trying. This isn't like eighth grade where everybody gets a trophy. We are in a professional sport, and it is competitive to win. That's what we do.

We just want to win. It doesn't matter how the stats look.

Winning is all that does matter.

If you train, you work hard, you're actually 110-percent dedicated, you're doing it for all the right reasons, you're probably gonna end up on the top. You know the cream always rises to the top.