Jon Beason Quotes

I used to play basketball and I was pretty competitive, but I was never a bad loser. I never got angry. For me it was always about doing my best and devoting myself to a challenge.

As a sportsman, you always play to win. Having said that, it's not possible to win every day. There will be days when you will do well and there will be days you won't.

The only pressure I feel is how I can contribute to help my team win the match. Of course, there is always the pressure to score, but then doesn't it eventually help your team win? Frankly, I don't let these things affect me.

I admire Messi: he's never complained to me in any game we played, but I've also never asked him for his jersey and never would. I came to win, not to say I played against Messi.

I just play the game. I'm used to trash talking.

I'll do whatever it takes for us to win games of cricket. If I have to sledge, I'll get involved like that. I'll try and intimidate a player if I have to.

I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.

I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries.

I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

If you got anything to you at all as an athlete and a competitor, you don't care what the circumstances are. You still got competition.

To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.

Every player feels differently about playing football. We are all different people. I am the type who wants to win all the time. I hate to lose.

When you're on court, you just want to win. You're a competitor.

I'm a quiet guy, but on the pitch, it's different. You have to do everything you can to win and help your teammates.

NBA players are intense competitors, and it is truly humbling to know that my peers see me as someone who exhibits sportsmanship and respect on the court.

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.

I'm a football player and I have respect for every opponent, every defender and every team, but I'm not afraid of anyone and I'm not afraid to take them on and to make things happen.

We gotta play hard and leave it all out there. Dive for lose balls, take charges, just do whatever it takes to win the game.

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

We think game by game.

So what if you have two points? As long as we win, what does it matter? What if you don't have no points?

I want to have fun on the pitch in the training sessions and have fun and win during the matches.

It's all about getting your head down, focusing, working hard, competing in training, keeping fit, and picking up points.

I love competition, but my approach to the game was to never make it personal. It was business. It was what I did, so it didn't matter who the opposing team was, or who the receiver was. I approached it as business and I never let myself get outside of that.

I'm upset when we lose. It doesn't matter if I make 10 60-yarders in one game if we lose.