Gareth Barry Quotes

Each game we approach like a final. Today it was the opening game at home, we won and showed outstanding football qualities. We will be preparing for the next game the same way.

I'm doing whatever I have to do to help my team win. So, instead of being focused on anything from the outside, I'm focused on winning and that next game.

I focus on one thing and one thing only - that's trying to win as many championships as I can.

People expect you to play your best, so I go through a routine to prepare myself so that I know I'm physically and mentally ready - prepared for the game.

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

You gotta win; that's all I care about.

I'm just trying to win games. If I keep doing that, it's all that matters.

I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.

You have to be ready for all the games and be at 100 per cent if you want to win in this League.

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

Once I go into these fights, and we have to go through the ringer to prepare for them, and we know I'm not 100 percent going in, winning is the most important thing, and dominating is the most important thing, and that's what we've been doing.

Just like any other game we're taking on we've got to prepare, prepare hard, mentally, physically. We've been practicing hard.

You want to win everything you are in.

When I'm playing my best, like I was at the U.S. Open, I feel on top of the match and able to do exactly what I want. There are other times when you're not in control, but that is tennis and you have momentum changes in every single match.

At big championships it's not the fastest person, it's the person who gets it right on the day.

You can't control what the other athlete is going to do; you can't control anything except for your competition and how you execute the race or how you execute the task.

I win everyday I'm out there.

I just tried to keep my cool and continue with my race plan: to win.

I always played to win.

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.

Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.

The time your game is most vulnerable is when you're ahead; never let up.

Like I said, when you have to play against a great player every night, that defines who you are if you can compete on that same level night in and night out.

When you're playing the best player in the world, you've got to play well.

My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn't always happen, but that's what I try for.