Viswanathan Anand Quotes

You can't win any games in the Spanish league by giving only seventy or eighty per cent. You always have to step on the gas.

Most pro athletes are super competitive, super clutch, and they don't want to lose at anything.

You always want to feel better but I'm good. My thing is once you get to the playoffs, you do whatever it takes. You've got to lay it on the line.

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.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

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

I'm a quiet guy, but on the pitch, it's different. You have to do everything you can to win and help your teammates.

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

The mentality is always to win.

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

I take every match as a final. It's very important.

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

I love those words: killer instincts. Great teams, great players, they develop that, and it's not something that has to be said.

That's why I train the way I train. I don't like to lose.

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.

I'm just a very tough person when I go on the court, and I really don't want to lose.

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

Every game I've ever played, regardless if it was pre-season or Super Bowl, meant the same to me, and I laid it all on the line.

Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.

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

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

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.

For me all games are finals.

You get into sports with the idea that you want to win. If you aren't trying to win, what's the point in being involved?