Dorothy Hamill Quotes

Every moment, every practice, every game, everywhere; I just love competing. Competition is in my DNA.

As a soccer player you want to perform, whether it's in front of 72,000 or even 1,000. You always want to be your best because you never know who's watching.

I have a lot of competitive juices, and I want to go out and compete on the football field every day.

I always look forward to playing great players, great scorers, because I pride myself on my defense.

I get paid to play football and show everything I've got.

I think I'm just competitive and I demand a lot from myself. So I get frustrated if something hasn't come off for me or if a game is going against it. I like to think I channel it in the right way and do my best for the team.

If you're athletic and you can run, you can play defense. It's a mindset.

It's good to be competitive when everyone wants to be in the starting line-up.

I was a Division I college athlete, and I grew up with five brothers and two sisters. I've always been a competitor.

My best ability was in just being ready when I was called upon. Then, I would be fit, and my legs would be light. If you sulk and are on the bench, and the gaffer calls you on, you are not ready because there's something going on in your head.

You are all mates off the pitch, but on it, you are all competing for places. I think that only makes a healthier squad - more players fighting for positions can only mean everyone has got to step their game up.

I wouldn't be in football if I was nervous. You have to look forward to games.

I love sports, and I'm a hugely competitive person.

I believe that, deep down at heart, I'm a football player.

Rugby is a sport in which you can lose heavily one week and still come back and smash the opposition the next.

I'm happy to be back out on the court. Whatever role that I'll be in and whatever minutes that I get, I'm just grateful to be playing a game I love again.

I'm a football player. I believe I'm just as tough as anybody else. I try not to play like a wide receiver.

I do a lot of things well, I'm very athletic, I play against guys who are also very athletic.

I'm naturally fired up. I'm naturally excited to play each and every time I lace the shoes up.

Football players have a great life, but we're only human.

I really enjoyed playing rugby. I loved the camaraderie with the other athletes. It was kind of like fighting. Team fighting.

For every athlete, it is very important to be able to engage in their favorite thing, give all the best in training, performing in competitions, defending the honor of the motherland.

I don't really put too much pressure on myself. The only time people feel pressure is when they put it on themselves and listen to the outside stuff. I have great teammates and great coaches that do the right things around me that allows me to just focus on the game of football.

Competition in football means someone will improve.

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.