Diego Costa Quotes

I never really thought of myself as a captain. I always thought of myself as a guy trying to win games, a guy who could look back and have no regrets.

I'm not going to play with a filter anymore; I'm going to play the game I need to play to be a great player for my team.

I'm sick at myself for not winning more. But I am always trying to find ways to make myself a better player. I am not just turning up to make up the numbers.

If I can run, I'm not going to sit out any game. I'm here to play football, not to watch and collect a check.

What I want out of tennis is not necessarily just winning.

I don't know if every player in the Premier League feels hurt when they lose a game. The right sort is very important. I was naive in thinking that everyone was like me.

I used to play basketball and I was pretty competitive, but I was never a bad loser. I never got angry. For me it was always about doing my best and devoting myself to a challenge.

I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation.

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

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

I'm competitive. I'd love another chance to be part of a Stanley Cup championship team. That'd be awesome.

Every player feels differently about playing football. We are all different people. I am the type who wants to win all the time. I hate to lose.

When I was in high school I was a super serious athlete. I wasn't fun at all.

I played baseball, and that's pretty much it. Basketball came late, this was, basketball was the sport that I tried to master, I kind of mastered baseball, so basketball was one of those things where I wanted to master this game, so that's why I probably play it the way I do.

I've said many times, 'You learn to win through not liking to lose.' And that's what I mean by learning how to win.

The Williams girls compete extremely hard on court because they hate losing - it's just that they haven't played an awful lot of tennis over the years.

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?

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

It's the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

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.

That's what my mindset is, making the right play and doing the right thing each and every possession.

I'm not a player any more, I'm a fan, and I want to see somebody who wants to win and wants to fight.

LeBron just wants to win.

It is difficult to single out any one player, as I aim to give my best against every single player that I have played so far against.

You have an obligation as a player - as an athlete at any level - and it doesn't matter what sport it is. When you sign on, you sign on. You prepare that week to go win. I don't care about your schedule, or how many people got hurt - it doesn't matter. You owe it to the people in the building and guys in the huddle to prepare yourself to win.