James Spithill Quotes

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

This match is about sport and I separate that completely from politics.

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

My whole life I've hated to lose, no doubt about it. I've been guilty of that since I was 6 years old, at camp. I have always played to win. That's who I am. But I never hurt anybody. The problem is when you're perceived as being too aggressive where you hurt somebody or do something improper.

In all sports, people get competitive; things happen that shouldn't happen.

I'm against the fighting. But sometimes when you're trying to help your team, trying to win the games, there are moments when you need to get a little aggressive.

I like to battle with defenders if I have to. I don't know where it comes from; I am not a nasty guy.

All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.

Every soccer player can be on the edge, at the limit, be the bad guy. We have to get used to it. Sometimes I am one of those.

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 probably went into sports with a sense of competitiveness and came out of it even more competitive.

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.

I like to win my challenge. That's English football as well, but I am not a dirty player.

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

I'm just very passionate to win games for my country - and sometimes when things don't go my way, I'll get a little bit narky.

It's wrong if you go into a game and think you're starting week in and week out.

If they want to kick the ball up in the air, I will challenge all day long.

I'll do whatever it takes for us to win games of cricket. If I have to sledge, I'll get involved like that. I'll try and intimidate a player if I have to.

I don't have any problem with tackles or duels, but I react when I notice that someone is only trying to kick me out of the game. But I never have the intention to hurt anyone. Everything is forgotten again a minute later.

Sometimes you get into fights if a teammate is getting taken advantage of, sometimes just from competing and you feel someone takes a cheap shot. It's just the intensity. It's an intense game, sometimes you just get too fired up and fights happen.

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

If you see a good fight, get in it and fight to win it!

I'm a rah, rah guy's guy. I like to talk about sports and put people in headlocks.

On the pitch, I argue, I shout, I talk rubbish and generally do anything I can to get ahead.