Naby Keita Quotes

To me, it's just another game of football - 11 players, a grass pitch. Regardless what shirt I have on, it's important you win the game, and I'm competitive as anyone, and I want to win every game, whether it's a Sunday league game, a five-a-side tournament, or a World Cup qualifier.

I like to win, I like to compete and I like to sack the quarterback. I imagine there's a team out there looking for that.

I think I'm a crazy competitor when it comes to basketball.

I'm not a player any more, I'm a fan, and I want to see somebody who wants to win and wants to fight.

I love football, and I love to play, and I want to play until I physically can't - whatever age that is.

I love to compete. No matter what we're doing, it doesn't matter. We could be playing video games or ping pong, and I'm going to get fired up, win, lose or draw.

When I play football, I try to win the game. That is part of me. That is who I am.

I'm a competitor. No matter what I'm doing, whether I'm golfing, whether I'm playing indoor soccer with my fiancé - he's not going to get by me. I'm going to try to do whatever I can to win.

I always root for the defense.

I wanted to win, even in practice.

People just don't understand how obsessed I am with winning.

I love getting out of bed for competition.

I am someone that is very competitive. When I'm on the field, I compete. When I'm practicing, when I'm in meetings. I'm a competitor in everything.

The day I go out there and don't want to win is the day I will give up.

I was very competitive. I hated losing. No matter what, I had to win.

I want winners. I want people who want to win.

Even in past years, when I wasn't in the Super Bowl, I wished I was.

The other thing I knew I had was a high level of competitiveness.

Ain't nobody ever had a jumpshot like mine, ain't nobody ever power moves like mine, ain't nobody ever tough defense like mine and ain't nobody ever had the courage to be a winner like me.

I don't like to lose. I don't care where it is.

College football, acting, opera singing - I approached them all in the same obsessive way.

Got to play, man. Got to play hard.

You gotta win; that's all I care about.

I try to win every time I'm out there.

But I am a basketball player going out there to compete, I am going to try to win no matter what. That is just in my blood.