Daniel Okrent Quotes

I hope the fans have enjoyed listening as much as I've enjoyed doing the games. I don't ever go to the park where I don't have a good day. I don't like losing. But I don't think I ever go to the park where I have a bad day. I don't think once.

We might have, with Hockey Canada, an Aero Bar, a chocolate bar. 'Okay we're going to play for this chocolate bar.' Here you have guys who made millions of dollars, they're professional athletes, and they will fight tooth and nail to win. It's not necessarily for the chocolate bar. It's the competitive spirit.

It's about how the players play and compete. I know everybody is going to equate that on winning or losing, like they always do, but if we play hard and compete well in the game .. then I think we are building on something.

I enjoy watching competitive people. You watch 'em come and you watch 'em go, and how they try to be the best. How they handle when they're not. How they handle when they are. How they get along together on the court.

I hear people saying 'the way the game should be played'. Rubbish. That's the worst saying in football. You win the game, then worry about the way it should be played.

If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose.

Nobody cares about the bronze or silver medals.

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

In playing or managing, the game of ball is only fun for me when I'm out in front and winning. I don't give a hill of beans for the rest of the game.

When you are playing against an opposition, you want to go out there and win a game, and for that, you have to be aggressive.

I grew up an athlete, growing up in Pittsburgh. I played basketball. I played football. I played a little bit of baseball in my earlier years.

That's what makes baseball the best. Nothing matters but winning.

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 want to be on a team that's got a chance. That's what's fun. That's what you play the game for.

If you ask any player, they will always say the same. They play to win.

To me, it doesn't matter who's out there: NBA basketball is great - if teams are putting out their best players and they're competing to win.

It's basketball. At the end of the day everyone wants to win, and that's really the reason why we play is to win.

As long as we're winning football games, I'm happy.

I don't believe in moral victories. I don't think in pro ball they exist, and they shouldn't exist.

When I'm aggressive, all the other guys are aggressive, and somehow that's how we win games.

In every club, 11 players are happy and the others unhappy. This is correct because if one player doesn't play and is happy, he's crazy.

I hustle, I run down the line, I do whatever I can to win ball games. Those are the only things we can control as baseball players.

Moral victories are really more for coaches than players.

I'm going to do my best to help the team play hard and help the team win... I'm just coming to play baseball.

I just try to make sure that when I get there on the floor, I play as hard as I can and try to do everything I can to help the team win.