Zinedine Zidane Quotes

The '80s, '90s, and early 2000s genes of competitive fire are dead and gone.

Fans and reporters, they don't get that ever since I was five, all I've done is competed against something. I always had a goal. Then, whenever you hit a point, there's a point in an athlete's life where it's like, 'Is it still worth it?'

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

They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.

All I cared about in tennis was winning.

But there was no question in my mind that I was gonna still go for it. I was still going for the win. I wasn't skiing for second or third place today, and in the end I think that's probably what got me there.

I'm very easy-going off court, but I really want to win once I'm walking on to the court.

The best way I knew how was to give 110% and want it more than them, and walk on the court and every moment of the match feel like it was the end of the world, in a sense. So that worked for me in a lot of ways. There were times that it hurt me, but for the most part, it helped me.

I think that's one of the first things you'd say if you met me: that I am just nice and smiley. And that's how I might appear when I'm not competing. But I'm totally different when it comes to sport. It's just something that seems to be within me. It's not external or visual. But it's within me.

I've had the same hunger, the same desire to win, since I started kicking a football when I was five years old.

Put me there on the pitch if you want to see how much it means to me or how hungry I am to win more medals.

I want it more. That's all it really is. Nobody wants to get hit every possession to get a rebound, and I want to.

Michael, to me, he was an assassin. He was one of those guys that prepared himself extremely well and was relentless in his attacking. And there are a few guys who have that mentality. I think Kobe Bryant has that type of mentality, and LeBron has that type of mentality.

I was a pretty good soccer player, but it just wasn't for me. I thrive in the intensified atmosphere on a football field.

I just try to win the match by fighting for every point, and running down every ball.

I loved to play, I was competitive, I wanted to win, that was all I knew. In the first few years tennis is a game. Later, it becomes a job.

Great players, they always dig deep and have their will to win.

I'm naturally competitive, and I always want to win and always want to help our team win. So I always want to be on the field.

All the tournaments I enter I want to win, but especially in one of the biggest arenas we play in.

I don't miss games. That's not me. That's how I'm built. I want to play.

Regardless on winning the Cy Young, I have one goal that never changes, and that's to win every start.

I set the bar high, and I'll do anything, whatever it takes to win. I care more about this game than most people ever will. When you mix a lot of those things with a winning mentality, it's a good thing to have as a franchise quarterback.

When I am on the blocks, I don't care who you are - I will always try and beat you.

You get older, and you want to be a professional athlete; you want to win on the biggest stage.

I love winning, I love playing to win. You need some of that to be a bowler. You need to have a hatred for the batsman to make sure you have that real fire to perform.