Juan Ramon Lopez Caro Quotes

Everyone wants to beat us. So you can never take a single game lightly.

Every game's a big game.

As soon as I hear the word 'competition' I get serious and start doing everything that I can do.

I'm going to compete every possession.

To me, every match is important.

When the game is over, it's over. We leave everything on the court.

I approach every game with the same level of seriousness.

Duffy is go hard or go home. It's just a concept that I wanted to have when we're doing different things. When me and my dancers go in, we usually go hard or we go home. We're not here to play. We go duffy.

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.

You must play with the same intention: to win the game and give everything you have.

People sometimes have a false view of track and field, that it's kind of soft and kind of friendly. And guys aren't necessarily laughing and joking, but everyone's just friendly and 'ha ha, he he.' I just came in and just was like, 'Nah, I don't know what y'all talking about, but every single time I step on the line, I'm trying to win.'

I don't have friends when I'm on the court, besides my team.

We understand it's a 48 -minute game and for us it's always win or go home and that's what we do.

I like to relax; of course I do! But when I am inside the pitch, that is it. You have to go on full on from the first minute.

In this league, you can't take your foot off the gas pedal. You think you have something won, but teams are too good, too talented.

My main thing is I'm going to compete on every play, try to be focused on both ends of the court. That said, I'll always bring my excitement, my swag, to the game.

A lot of people in the NBA don't even take the game serious or take the same approach that I do.

I take this game very seriously.

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

I want to win. I want to play serious. I want to be effective.

I like every game to matter, to feel like we must win.

I just try to play every game like it's Game 7 of the NBA Finals.

Each game is important.

If we want to fight at the end of the season for big things and to lift trophies, you need to keep that intensity always.

I would say you feel a lot more pressure at a national tournament than a state tournament. This is more of a fun weekend out with the guys. The national tournament is more business.