Dikembe Mutombo Quotes

I loved gymnastics. I was eager to compete. I was hungry to go out there and be the best in the world, and I had that determination.

The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete.

I love competing against the best players. I have a huge challenge, and that's to win a U.S. Open and complete the Grand Slam. I enjoy that challenge. Every year it comes around, I get excited to try to conquer that opportunity. I love it.

There are no gentlemen in anything competitive - you want to win.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

Whatever I lack in size and strength and speed, I kind of make up for in being grittier. When it comes to something like basketball I'm definitely not the best guy on the court, but I love elbowing and pushing people out or boxing them out.

I'm going out to play, and to play to win.

It's not for everybody, and some of the toughest people I've ever met in my lifetime, I met in the wrestling ring.

I give no quarter, and I ask for none. Out there, I'm going to fight for my team and do the best I can.

I've got a puncher's chance against anybody.

I've played basketball all of my life, and I've had things happen on the court that you eventually have to move on from. It's part of some of the obstacles that you meet in trying to reach your pinnacle.

I don't step back, that's football. It's about winning.

I have to play a bit of a physical game and try to work harder than everyone else.

Goal line is goal line. You go down there and it's the grit and grind of the game.

Who cares if you get last place. This is the Olympics. Making it is the hard part.

We want to do something important in the World Cup, and hopefully I have the chance. If not, well, life goes on, I'll keep working the same way and supporting my teammates.

I want to thank all of my opponents. Iron sharpens iron, and every great victory or crushing defeat occurred because there was someone who trained hard and had the courage to meet me across the cage.

In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.

Success to the strongest, who are always, at last, the wisest and best.

There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

Obviously I would have loved to have won, but I have had a good run every match.

He celebrates yesterday's victory in order to gain more strength for tomorrow's battle.

America has no one to catch you when you fall. That makes you want to achieve. It is healthy for the soul. But all that is valued is success.

What matters is that on the pitch we give the maximum to prove that money is not everything.

I just try to do whatever I can to win the game.