Christian Yelich Quotes

There were butterflies, otherwise, you're not really ready to play. The locker room, I remember, was quiet and we were very focused on playing that game.

I'm just super competitive. Squash, tennis, water skiing, computer games... Even if I played you at pool, I'd have to win.

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.

A lot of people say they're competitive, and they think that means they scream and yell when they lose. I'm not like that. I don't scream and yell. I just win. At anything I do, I win.

Most pro athletes are super competitive, super clutch, and they don't want to lose at anything.

I'm not going to lie: I'm a competitive player. I think there's no point playing football if you're not competitive and you don't want to win games.

It's really important at United that you've been brought up with that winning mentality.

If it's a card game, or it's a preseason game, or it's a regular season game, I just go out there to try to win. For me, that's all I know how to do it and I'll never change that.

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

I don't really care about my game, honestly. I just want to win.

I don't really play off nerves. I just want to win.

I have to win, even if I'm just playing ping pong.

I have never considered any player as my competitor; each one of them is good and talented, and my job is to beat them.

I was extremely competitive, so for me becoming a footballer was not necessarily because it was about being the best - it was about winning.

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

I still have the competitive spirit, which is good.

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.

I think any football is a guy that is able to one, be able to be humble and hungry off the field, but at the same time on the football field understand what they have to get done and be a little bit ferocious.

I always tried to win. I was as competitive as I am today.

Obviously, you always want to win, but you want to win by skiing a race that you're proud of and you feel like you really challenged yourself and left it all out there.

Obviously, I don't want to be in the box for over a hundred minutes during the season, but at the same time I have to try to play with an edge and battle out there.

Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference.

I don't play to sweat, I play to win.

It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.

You can teach all the other stuff, you know. You can teach shooting the ball, you can teach having a good touch... passing and whatnot, but when you get out there on the field, it's just a mindset you need to go into the game with.