Thomas Muller Quotes

A Germany team should not be afraid going into a tournament. History shows that we can raise the level of our game when it matters.

It's about how the players play and compete. I know everybody is going to equate that on winning or losing, like they always do, but if we play hard and compete well in the game .. then I think we are building on something.

The Australian team that I was lucky enough to play in had a certain aura and sometimes you had teams beaten before you even walked on the field.

I'm naturally fired up. I'm naturally excited to play each and every time I lace the shoes up.

It's important to make sure your players have the mindset that playing international cricket is still the ultimate form of cricket.

I don't really listen to music before I go on court.

It's always something that's played on my mind, being an Olympian, so hopefully we get there and do the job at the World Cup.

As for myself, in sport you have to question yourself every week and be ready in your head, and you have to be at 100% of determination if you want to keep going and win games; you cannot afford to be at 80% or 90%.

We always play better when we play with emotion.

You want to win everything possible and you try it every year, but you can't win everything, we know this as well but we have to play good football, we have to get the best of our team.

It's important on the pitch to have fun, to enjoy the game, because it generates a good feeling around the club.

Messi is an extraordinary player, but your squad is pivotal: at a World Cup, the 11 players on the pitch and everyone else in the group can all play an important role.

We want to win every game of football we go into. I don't know how we would go into a game not wanting to win and not wanting to play well.

Being a player for a big team like Barca, you have to be very strong.

My coaches sometimes say I'm a little bit too competitive. But I want to win, and I feel like we should win every game.

We might have, with Hockey Canada, an Aero Bar, a chocolate bar. 'Okay we're going to play for this chocolate bar.' Here you have guys who made millions of dollars, they're professional athletes, and they will fight tooth and nail to win. It's not necessarily for the chocolate bar. It's the competitive spirit.

When I'm aggressive, all the other guys are aggressive, and somehow that's how we win games.

Footballers are super-intelligent and there is only one football language: to win, to win, to win.

I'll do whatever it takes for us to win games of cricket. If I have to sledge, I'll get involved like that. I'll try and intimidate a player if I have to.

I hope that my team can show just how well we can play football and that we have the desire to win each individual match.

Football is not a game about numbers. It's about wins and trying to go out and play better than the other team.

Every time I have the ball in my hands, which is every play, I feel I'm the best player on the team. That's just my mentality. I'm not saying that in a cocky way, but everybody should have that mentality when they step on that field.

I can speak in cliches and say how much the Israel national team means to us, but we have to prove that on the pitch.

It's true that it's good to have a good striker, but you have to win.

When our players come from somewhere else, they sometimes show happiness when the game is 0-0 or 1-1, but we were brought up in an environment where we have to win. We are not satisfied with 0-0 or 1-1. This is the mentality of Bayern Munich.