Tom Brady Quotes

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

You can teach all the other stuff, you know. You can teach shooting the ball, you can teach having a good touch... passing and whatnot, but when you get out there on the field, it's just a mindset you need to go into the game with.

I'm very competitive. If I have to 'turn it on,' I know how to. The switch isn't hard to find, don't worry.

At the quarterback position I would say mental is just as important as physical. Then there's that emotional component too.

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

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

Having your competitiveness and your desire as an athlete called into question is, for sure, frustrating.

Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.

When I'm out on the football field, I have so much confidence in what I'm doing.

What makes a really great fighter is a combination of ingredients: one is everything physical that you can do, and the other is what's mentally there for you. And I think that comes down to how big your heart is and what's driving you.

I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.

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.

The worst thing is the day you realize you want to win more than the players do.

I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.

I'm like a beast. I just take it out on the track.

Everything I was, physically and mentally, that's what I put on that field.

I watch a lot of sports. One of the reasons I watch is to see how these guys handle pressure, how they respond to situations.

You need to possess more than a little nastiness to play basketball at the highest level.

When you're on court, you just want to win. You're a competitor.

The appetite and fight for winning a game outweighs any other thoughts.

The only way to get through the life I had was just to have a big head of steam and determination.

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.

You can only do so much in the gym or pool. Seventy per cent of it is physical, but the final 30 per cent is down to the mental capacity to actually control what you can do in competition.

We're not necessarily going to be more athletic than the other team, but we can outwork them, and we can be tougher than they are.

When it comes down to the last five minutes, it's not about Xs and Os. It's pretty much who wants it more.