Alvaro Morata Quotes

I think that players play, and they compete, and it's not about incentives.

It's wrong if you go into a game and think you're starting week in and week out.

The mentality we have in India is not very sporting.

In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty.

I'm not an aggressive person, but obviously on the sporting field I'll do whatever it takes.

I like to win my challenge. That's English football as well, but I am not a dirty player.

At Ajax, we have a certain philosophy that is sometimes more important than winning - the development of players.

I think if you are champ, you shouldn't choose your opponents.

As a sportsman, my aim was to help sportspersons grow. The idea is to see what is good for sport rather than what's good for individuals.

Sports are sports. Its all about how we carry ourselves out of the ring.

This match is about sport and I separate that completely from politics.

I remember my late father, who was the biggest football fan I have ever known, used to stress when I was younger that, win or lose, you always have to compete with honor.

And people who know me would tell you that away from hockey I'm really not that competitive.

Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football.

We should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing. But every coach, when they say that, they say it tongue in cheek, 'Don't worry about winning': If you win I'll get you ice cream, but if you lose I'm going to pout in the car.

Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference.

If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.

There is no such thing as sportsmanship.

No, I don't have any favorite opponent. It is not my duty to select my opposition.

There is a great deal of fair play in English football.

Once you're on the pitch, you play for your team, and you want to win. During the year, you can play against friends - you can play against big friends and close friends - but once you are on the pitch, this friendship goes away, and you just focus on winning the game.

I'm all about winning. It doesn't matter if I start, or if I don't start, if I play or if I don't play. As long as we're winning, that's all I care about.

You try to make sure you have respect for the opposition but still play to win and play hard cricket.

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.

Football sometimes has a bad reputation. Some of that is deserved... and some of it isn't.