Chris Coleman Quotes

It is a proud moment to lead England out any time you do and on a world stage it gives it an extra oomph as well but it will be down there with the biggest lows if we don't win.

My goal was to be the starting quarterback at Texas Tech and I didn't reach that goal.

Losing hurts me. I was determined to be the best.

I haven't won a World Cup. There's things that haven't been finished, and I'm not afraid to fall flat on my face trying.

I probably went into sports with a sense of competitiveness and came out of it even more competitive.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

We're all trying so hard to win each of these World Series events and the standard now is phenomenal but it's great that everyone's pushing each other.

Hopefully I can be one of the best midfielders in the world. That's what drives me on: to try and achieve that and to try and go on and win many things.

My ambition is to win some trophies. That's why I am playing football.

You've always six teams who are trying to win the title, and the other five have failed. But by word of saying it, it's not failing; it's just the way it is. The last two years, we didn't win it, so it wasn't good enough, but if now we win it, the other teams will say the same.

Every player wants to win the World Cup - every country wants to win the World Cup - so anything less than that is not really a bonus. Of course you can take positives out of everything, but you won't be entirely happy if you don't win it.

When we don't win it's hard for everyone.

What motivates me is being the best quarterback in the world.

Whenever you play football, you will always have something to prove.

I want to be the world's number one one-day player; I want to win a World Cup, win the championship with Lancashire - those are my motivations.

You have all the ambition of winning a championship and competing in your hometown. For me, it didn't work out that way.

You don't go into coaching if you're not willing to step into that moment and go, 'OK, this is what it's going to take, and this is why you do it.' Everything hinges on winning and losing, right?

I am motivated by trying to win trophies.

I want to be successful with the national team and Bayern.

A competitor continually sets new goals. He feels the need to keep raising the bar. If the fist goal is to make the team, and he achieves it, he immediately resets the goal to: I want to be a starter.

I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective. I don't want a football player who doesn't take defeat to heart, who laughs it off with the thought, "Oh, well, there's another Saturday." The trouble in American life today, in business as well as in sports, is that too many people are afraid of competition. The result is that in some circles people have come to sneer at success if it costs hard work and training and sacrifice.

It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself.

I wanted to be a world champion.

I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure.

In today's world, we all live with the burden of feeling that anything is possible if we're only clever enough, smart enough, work hard enough.