Eli Manning Quotes

I've gotten to watch a lot of football games. Growing up, watching sports, watching people compete, whether it's my brothers or teammates. I grew up observing and taking it all in. It's kind of my attitude.

I would cry after losses when I was a kid and pout. But I played like that.

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

I am a sore loser. I've always been like that ever s'nce I started playin' sports and just life in general. I hate to lose and I play to win.

Sports are a microcosm of society. It just shows how much more competition there is in the world.

When you step onto that field, you cannot concede a thing.

I could be a real jerk on the days I was pitching.

I'm totally sports-oriented; I relate a lot of my career and everything to sports.

It's funny, you can get over the win pretty quick and get ready for the next opponent. When you lose, it just eats at you.... What could we have done? What should I have done? All those things. Just part of playing professional sports and sports in general.

I like to be just an athlete, but if I go to competition and compete, I love to be a star, maybe.

You can't ever totally know what's inside of someone else, or see the kind of will someone like Magic has. You have to rely on your instincts to find people who hate losing and know how to win.

It's correct that I'm a bad loser. Why should I lie? If I was good at losing I wouldn't be in Formula 1. I think it's more honest to act how you really feel than pretending to be the smiling boy who actually isn't in the mood to smile.

I hated sports. I hated sports, and I hated people who played them, and I hated people who watched them, and I hated people who didn't hate people who watched or played them.

I simply scraped together all my experience and put it into the sport.

Even when I played sports when I was little, I played to win. Otherwise, what's the point of putting the pads on and going to practice? I don't understand.

The essence of sport is courage.

Losing is the bane and bugbear of every professional athlete's existence, but in baseball the monster seems to hang closer than in other sports, its chilly claws and foul breath palpable around the neck hairs of the infielder bending for his crosshand scoop or the reliever slipping his first two fingers off-center on the ball seams before delivering his two-and-two cut fastball.

I think once an athlete always an athlete and once you have a competitive nature about you, in general, it's hard to let go. Whether you're going to take it into medicine or take it into sport, the competitive drive never really leaves.

I'm sure Bobby won't want them to be losing the match before winning it.

I have a love-hate relationship with losing. I hate how it makes me feel, which is basically sick. But I love what it brings out.

It's hard for me to congratulate somebody after you just lose to them. I'm a winner. It's not being a poor sport or anything like that. If somebody beats you up, you're not going to congratulate them. That doesn't make sense to me. I'm a competitor.

We make a living playing basketball. You don't have to be a tough guy or a hard-ass to play this sport. You can be tough but you don't have to have that bravado. Sometimes it's good. But I'm not going to be someone I'm not. It's just me being me.

You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what's left.

I'm a very competitive person, whether it's school, baseball or even playing video games.

Even as a fierce competitor I try to smile.