Dan Quinn Quotes

You have to be ready for all the games and be at 100 per cent if you want to win in this League.

Whether it's a friendly match, or for points, or a final, or any game - I play the same. I'm always trying to be my best, first for my team, for myself, for the fans, and to try and win.

We just have to get it going and play hard every time out.

Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference.

I think it was the preparation and every thing Lombardi represented, you know, about hard work and that every game was important. So when you get to the real important games, you were ready to go.

I want to be the best. I want to be counted on by my teammates. I want to be counted on by this organization and the fans. I want to be someone they know is going to bring it every single week. I prepare to be the best.

My belief is whether I'm the starter, whether I'm the backup, I'm going to show up the same exact way. I'm going to prepare the same exact way, and I'll always be ready to go.

Patience, discipline - giving everything on court... This is what I'm trying to bring in every single match.

I only had an A game... no matter where I was.

Things are never easy against whoever you play, which is why every game you have to be totally at it, on your mettle, and totally focused and concentrated.

You have an obligation as a player - as an athlete at any level - and it doesn't matter what sport it is. When you sign on, you sign on. You prepare that week to go win. I don't care about your schedule, or how many people got hurt - it doesn't matter. You owe it to the people in the building and guys in the huddle to prepare yourself to win.

I approach everything, including sobriety, with the same mentality I approached sports with. You're going to put in the time. You've got to suit up, show up, and keep your eyes on the win.

Just got to keep going out there and keep swinging. That's all I can really do. Getting work in, doing everything I can to get ready for the game.

I live every training session to the fullest as if it were a final.

You have to play your 'A' game in every single match and that's a good thing.

What I've learned mostly is that you have to be ruthless and you have to be consistent and you have to fit every day the culture of the club to create a winning mentality.

I go into every game like I'm playing at school!

I don't just train to be a participant. I train to come up big in big moments. That's when I know I've got to roll the sleeves up.

I just go to work every day, spend hours in the film room, go to practice, go home and then do it all again the next day. I know I can be boring and I sound like a walking cliche but I really do just try to get our team ready to win a game on Saturday. That's pretty much my life.

I have not compromised in the last seven years on my preparations, be it a small series or a World Cup. I know that there is a World Cup, but I want to go out and play my game.

I have played on many teams throughout my career, and I know when a team has the tools, and the right positive attitude towards winning.

As a football team, you head into the season the same way with confidence and a positive mindset that you are going to win a bunch of football games.

The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.

I've been in basketball a long time, and nobody is more of a competitor than I am.

Every player feels differently about playing football. We are all different people. I am the type who wants to win all the time. I hate to lose.