Rafael van der Vaart Quotes

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?

I'm confident I can show exactly what I'm about, how much I care about football, and how I'd do anything to win.

When I play football, I try to win the game. That is part of me. That is who I am.

It doesn't matter whether it is your first game or your last game: you want to win.

I like to watch anyone who has great competitive spirit and will: passionate teams.

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.

As a player, you want to win every game. That's what footballers do: they want to play, and they want to win.

I really enjoy being in the game for every single ball.

That's the great thing about sports: You play to win, and I don't care if you don't have any wins. You go play to win. When you start telling me it doesn't matter, then retire. Get out. 'Cause it matters.

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.

If you got anything to you at all as an athlete and a competitor, you don't care what the circumstances are. You still got competition.

The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

Whenever I was on the pitch, I always tried to win.

I always had that, even when I was a kid in a go-kart or when I was playing soccer or tennis: that need of winning. It was there all my life, and it's still there now.

There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.

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.

We'll do anything it takes to win a basketball game.

You must play with the same intention: to win the game and give everything you have.

When I finish games, I want to have the feeling that I helped my team as much as I could, and the fans saw I was determined to win.

When we're doing everything we can to win, it's very fun.

New Yorkers always want to win. But it's just as important to us that you show us that you're trying like hell to do it for us.

I always want to win when I play, but sometimes I just can't get that interested all the time.

It is not about being the greatest team in the world ever, it is about fighting for every run and wicket.

All we can do is come in here and hoop, play hard, stay competitive and try to win.

Whatever games came my way, I tried to give my best, do whatever I could to win matches for the team, be it at the Ranji Trophy level, India A, IPL: this was always on my mind.