Grant Hill Quotes

I had a sense when I took the job that the 1976-77 Trail Blazers could be very good. We had made a lot of positive roster changes, but it wasn't until I had the team in training camp that I realized that this team could be special. Midway through that season, I felt we had a chance to win it all.

Nobody wants to play for a team that's not competitive.

People want national championship banners. People want to talk about Indiana being competitive. How do we get there? We don't get there with milk and cookies.

The best thing for the fans is having a team with a chance to win. That's what everyone wants.

I don't want to go to a team that's only won a few amount of games, but it doesn't have to be a contender.

What I made clear to our front office is we're going to be judged by wins and losses. It isn't about having a marquee star player and coming in last place. That's not what Lakers basketball is. Lakers basketball is winning basketball.

My main thing over the years is to try to get on a team and be on a team that wins games.

Individual records are nice to get, but before the season starts, you want to play to win the Stanley Cup!

We felt like when we went into last year we had a pretty good chance to win the championship from the previous year with the fall we put together. We've got the same everything now, so I think we can come back and be as strong this year.

We're trying to be that franchise that year-in and year-out is competing for a championship.

When you come off a losing season - one of the worst seasons in all of basketball - and get guys like Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett, two perennial All-Stars, we felt like we had a championship team.

The FA Cup is something we want to win, but when you play for Chelsea, it is not something you think about a lot because you want to win every game.

There's a reason the Panthers have been successful over the years and Cam Newton's a big factor in that equation. He does a great job.

I want to go to a place that's undervalued, where the potential is great, a place that wants to win, not just participate, in football.

I want to score more goals, to play more games, but at the end of the day, the most important thing is that the team wins. The other things come with that.

I didn't want to be part of a tanking team. I just wanted to win and just work to be a good team.

I think being a championship-contending team, you have to have a championship-level coach to take you over the top.

What's great is what Coach Popovich and R.C. Buford and the whole family have done a great job in continuing to build the franchise and still be very, very competitive.

Fifty-nine or 54 or 52 or 49 wins isn't going to mean a whole lot. What's going to mean a whole lot to me, our organization, and our fans is how we perform in the playoffs and how deep a run we can make, and that's what we're setting our sights on.

Our goal is a title. With LeBron, we are in 'win now' mode.

You don't sell the team short and say, 'We're just trying to make the playoffs,' or anything like that.

You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I'll show you a pennant. I'll show you the New York Yankees.

Why Galatasaray and not Liverpool? Because I am a winner - I play for prizes - so I went to Galatasaray because I thought that I would win more at Galatasaray and be champion than at Liverpool, and I think afterwards that I made the right choice.

I don't mind being a second fiddle. I don't mind that. I don't care whatever happens, whatever helps my team get a championship is what I want to do. Whatever helps my team win is what I want to do.

My goal is to win a Super Bowl. It's not to just win X number of games.