Oliver Burke Quotes

I've never been uncoachable. I've been tough to coach because I'm hypercompetitive and always get to the bottom of things.

When I'm disappointed in myself, that frustration comes out a little bit. I don't let it affect my game, but it's something I can definitely work on.

I've always been able to move on and contain. I get mad, I get frustrated. No one gets more upset when they miss a kick than I do. But I have to be able to get over it for the sake of the team and my own job.

After I lost the first set, I was like, 'OK, I need to get help because I can't play this way.'

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

I'm a competitive person and I love the challenge of mastering new things.

Mental health, for me, is doing everything I can to help this team win. Sitting around not doing anything isn't something I've been too big on since I was young.

You don't get to the top in professional sport without being hard and tough, but I do that in my way. I don't shout or scream, but I am determined and I will push harder than 99 per cent of cricketers in training.

There's a lot of pressure we put on ourselves because we want to do well for ourselves and obviously do well for your country.

That competitive nature comes out when I feel like I'm playing bad and when things aren't going right.

Even when I played in club matches, I would take it to heart that I had got out early.

I think competing gets overlooked sometimes. The competitiveness that you bring to a game and an at-bat, it can go a long way. It really can.

I always just wanted to play my game, minimize mistakes so I had the best chance to make a roster.

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.

You want to go out every week and win - that's our job - and when you don't do that for a few games on the trot it starts to eat away at you, no matter who you are.

Every year is pressure. You need to put in on yourself to go out and perform.

We put pressure on ourselves because we want to be so great; we want to be the best team possible that we can be.

I realise that sometimes things go well and sometimes they don't. But it is very important for me I feel personally, even selfishly, the need to be playing football matches.

I was an athlete when I was younger and played a lot of sports, including golf, but I always ended up throwing around my clubs in frustration.

Tennis is an individual sport, and I am quite a self-conscious person.

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I'm not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.

I don't care what other people say. I fight every day to be the best player I can.

What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.

I've grown over the years and I know how to adapt to situations, where I can go into a situation where there's a crowd of people and just take over. But pretty much I'm off to myself. And I'm totally committed to the game of football. That's why I've had so much success.

I still have the competitive spirit, which is good.