Jordan Burroughs Quotes

People used to talk to me about that and say, 'Rom doesn't play with passion.' I do, but I don't show it too much because in my mind, I'm a guy that thinks a lot about how to win the game. Sometimes I let the emotions just come now, and it helps me.

I think competing gets overlooked sometimes. The competitiveness that you bring to a game and an at-bat, it can go a long way. It really can.

You have to go into every event with 100 percent confidence and just surf your best because everyone there is there to win, and no one is going to give you the heat. You have to win by a mile to really make a heat.

If any player in the world tells you he doesn't care about what the opponents do, he is lying.

Every game I've ever played, regardless if it was pre-season or Super Bowl, meant the same to me, and I laid it all on the line.

Everybody gets all worked up about trash talk but it is what it is - it's talk... You ask any player, honestly, if trash talk's gonna affect how hard they play, because if a little trash talk affects how hard they can play, it just lets us know that they were holding back or weren't playing harder or as hard as they could.

If you got anything to you at all as an athlete and a competitor, you don't care what the circumstances are. You still got competition.

As professional cricketers, we have to ensure that we are battle-ready all the time.

You have to go into each match believing you can beat all of the players.

As an individual, I take every match seriously, no matter who I'm going to play.

People expect you to play your best, so I go through a routine to prepare myself so that I know I'm physically and mentally ready - prepared for the game.

Just try to focus one game at a time, not worry about points or anything like that. Worry about playing the right way and see what comes of it.

My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn't always happen, but that's what I try for.

If I'm not Top 10 or seeded every tournament, it really doesn't matter. I can beat anyone on a good day.

I think the biggest part of my game that's underestimated is the mental part of it.

Feelings aren't going to help me win a game.

I'm just super competitive. Squash, tennis, water skiing, computer games... Even if I played you at pool, I'd have to win.

I never chased around with the opposition or got too well acquainted with them, because when the time in the ballgame came up where I had to pitch inside, I didn't want to hesitate.

There are at least three kinds of advantages that the pitcher and batter contest. There's the physical advantage, the strategic advantage, and also the psychological advantage. I didn't want two out of three. I wanted them all.

If you're playing someone you care about, it's tough, and I don't want to be in that situation. We are playing big matches for big points and prize money, and I take it very seriously. I relax when I'm outside tennis.

You can't go into a game lax and acting like somebody isn't trying to beat you.

You don't have to like me as a person - I understand that I can get on people's nerves with the antics I do in the ring. This is not a popularity contest. I'm trying to do whatever I can to win the fight.

I think preparing every week like it's the most important game in the world makes things a little easier once you get in situations where a lot more people are watching and it might be a lot more important for people outside of the building.

Win at all cost. That's why I love playing the game.

Whenever I play against Arsenal - and this is just a personal thing - I go up and think 'let me whack the first one, then we will see who wants it.'