Zach Johnson Quotes

After the love of my family, there's nothing more important to me than winning football games.

God blessed me to play football.

You get into sports with the idea that you want to win. If you aren't trying to win, what's the point in being involved?

It has sunk into my head that I want to be winning four or five tournaments a season.

I got to play in a crowd, play in Wimbledon finals, be the guy on a Davis Cup team for a while. Those are opportunities not a lot of people get. As much as I was disappointed and frustrated at times, I'm not sure that I ever felt sorry for myself or begrudged anybody any of their success.

Being an Olympian, I always have this strong belief in excellence.

We had a great group of guys when I was there, five of us, I think. It's a great competition. Every practice was hard. I think that's helped us a lot, everybody that was there.

The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

Personally I just want to win a championship.

I like to be just an athlete, but if I go to competition and compete, I love to be a star, maybe.

All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.

I watched the guy that hits a home run, and he comes across the plate and he points skyward, like thanking for the help from the Almighty to hit the home run. And as he does that, I say to myself, 'God screwed the pitcher.' And I don't know how else you look at it.

I don't rank competitions - every single one is the Olympics to me.

We have to win that game. But we have to win every game, that's the way it's always been.

During the season... fun, to me, is getting sacks, making tackles and winning games. It's not spending money, girls, or, you know, this and that.

Now that I have an Olympic medal in my room, it makes me hungry for another and a different color one.

Regardless of whether it is playing for your school team or playing for Manchester United, winning is great.

The person that said winning isn't everything, never won anything.

I look back at 1993 or 1994 when I made it to the National Championships, and I was on used skates and handmade or borrowed costumes. But my mom was there every step of the way for me: she was the one traveling with me all over the world at age 13.

We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.

A college athlete is going to be competitive. You don't get to that level if you're not.

The biggest thing is winning. No matter what percentage, no matter what my numbers say in the sense of points, assists, rebounds and steals, it's always been about winning.

God ain't got nothing to do with winning a damn football game.

Those big matches, when you go through so much, are the best thing. Those matches are why you play tennis.

I'm trying to stay humble because if I don't keep producing results, all of this goes away, so I want to focus on the people close to me - my family and my team; they mean everything to me.