Diego Simeone Quotes

The Olympics are a world apart from racing for a record. You put out of your mind pretty much what anyone else doing in the race.

Real Madrid demands the maximum. You have to win and please.

We see every game as a big game, and, as you know in tournament football, anything is possible. Each game, we want to keep raising the bar and lifting our standards and putting goals past teams.

The battle to win - on the pitch and in the boardroom - begins and ends in one's head.

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

All teams starting the season should aim to be as high as possible and Valencia are no exception.

I cannot see a situation when I won't feel pressure to play well and win.

It is never the case that I will push myself more for the World Championships and play differently in a Super Series or vice-versa.

I always want and expect more from players; they need challenging.

I guess, throughout my entire time in NXT, I didn't really have any false expectations of what it would be like to reach the main roster. I knew you'd have to work harder. I knew you'd have to bring it every single time.

When you have a coach that is a competitor, that wants to win more than anything else, it really carries over to the team.

A lot of youngsters in the game think they've made it before they've done anything. But at United, they're given that winning mentality and an ethos of always trying to improve.

My favorite Duke player ever is Steve Wojciechowski. He called me one day congratulating me on my success thus far, and I was like,'I appreciate it, but man, please don't congratulate me. I know when you guys start the season, you're not just trying to be 10-10 or ACC champions, you're trying to win it all.'

Unless I can do myself justice and play well, I'm not going to play.

If you want to win a Grand Slam, when you dream, you say, 'I want Serena in the final.'

It's really important at United that you've been brought up with that winning mentality.

I don't have anything against United. Playing them won't make me run any faster or try any harder.

I feel like a lot of my fans hold high expectations of me when it comes to inside the Octagon - not so much outside of the Octagon - but I feel like most of my performances are pretty dominant, so I don't feel like I have the luxury to not perform in an extremely impressive fashion.

I just try and earn my right to get on top of the bowlers, and that is how I play every game.

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

The thing about the NBA, if you have a weakness, they are going to expose it on the first day of practice. You have to get rid of your weaknesses, and your strengths have to be as sharp as anything.

Always, as a player, you are questioned and challenged about the next step. That's what drives the very best: they want to continually win.

Mentality is a big part of every game, when you take the initiative and when you drop.

As long as I'm out there and getting a chance to play, I expect to do well. No one is harder on themselves than me when I do bad, and I don't plan on changing any time soon.

Whenever something in the system changes, you have to prove yourself again. But wherever you go, you have to prove that you're better than whoever else is on the team. At a team like Arsenal, that's always going to be hard so I always have to be on it in training and matches.