Kevin Knox Quotes

It's good to be competitive when everyone wants to be in the starting line-up.

A college athlete is going to be competitive. You don't get to that level if you're not.

If you play hockey, you might as well win.

You get into sports with the idea that you want to win. If you aren't trying to win, what's the point in being involved?

Obviously, every player wants to keep their spot in the starting line-up, and I'm the same.

I need to show what a good player I can be.

I'll miss the competitive side and the camaraderie of being around the players and competing each and every day.

What's important to us is developing the habit of playing harder than our opponent every night.

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.

They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.

It's that athlete's obsessiveness - the need to prove yourself and work harder than anybody else. I think it's what helped me do well in the theater.

What gets me upset about with the newer players is their lack of intensity. They tend to go through the motions a little bit. They don't understand that you've got to practice the way you play.

Whether it's a friendly match, or for points, or a final, or any game - I play the same. I'm always trying to be my best, first for my team, for myself, for the fans, and to try and win.

We had a great group of guys when I was there, five of us, I think. It's a great competition. Every practice was hard. I think that's helped us a lot, everybody that was there.

Sports were a big part of my life. I was the captain of the basketball team in high school, and captain of the basketball team at Princeton.

You have to have a lot of little boy in you to play baseball for a living.

I wanted to be an outstanding player, that was my ambition.

I want my team to win and to be the best player I can possibly be.

Again, like I said, I went out to play the game of baseball because I love to play it. I did it right. I did it the right way. I worked hard doing it.

I played baseball, and that's pretty much it. Basketball came late, this was, basketball was the sport that I tried to master, I kind of mastered baseball, so basketball was one of those things where I wanted to master this game, so that's why I probably play it the way I do.

I have never played cricket for selfish reasons like scoring 800-900 runs on flat tracks to make a comeback.

I've always been a very harsh judge of talent because if you don't play the game on both ends of the court, and if you don't play hard every night, I'm probably not going to be in love with you as a player. I'm going to respect you because you're good, but these players are unique.

Our teams always play hard.

When you play well, when you perform, you have to show every game that you are that good.

I can do my job with the best of my peers in the National Football League.