AB de Villiers Quotes

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

The only pressure I feel is how I can contribute to help my team win the match. Of course, there is always the pressure to score, but then doesn't it eventually help your team win? Frankly, I don't let these things affect me.

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

I just play the game. I'm used to trash talking.

For us players, we just go into each game trying to win it and see where it takes us.

In football, you always look forward, and it's about the next game you play.

As a sportsman, you always play to win. Having said that, it's not possible to win every day. There will be days when you will do well and there will be days you won't.

There are no gentlemen in anything competitive - you want to win.

To be able to have winning in your blood growing up, whether it was pounding my little brother or trying to beat my dad in something, or just competing on teams with my friends, it was nonstop.

I'm not an aggressive person, but obviously on the sporting field I'll do whatever it takes.

I really want to do everything I can to try to win a game or win on a play. You get fiery; you get chippy out there, but a lot of respect, I never have anybody, like, talk trash in my career in the league, or I don't talk trash. I think guys respect the fact that I'm coming.

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.

When you're on court, you just want to win. You're a competitor.

When you go out on the field, you don't go out to make friends... I play to win the game and not just to compete.

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.

But I am a basketball player going out there to compete, I am going to try to win no matter what. That is just in my blood.

I think I'm a crazy competitor when it comes to basketball.

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 always look forward to playing great players, great scorers, because I pride myself on my defense.

We go into every game looking to win them.

Always, always, always when you prepare for a game, you prepare to win the match.

So what if you have two points? As long as we win, what does it matter? What if you don't have no points?

I want to win games; I don't want to lose games.

I want to have fun on the pitch in the training sessions and have fun and win during the matches.

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