Georginio Wijnaldum Quotes

You can't afford to lose games. It is always possible that you will not win, but it is the way you play the game.

When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you're all equal and you go out there and try your best, and that's what counts.

Tension is the greatest curse in sport. I've never had any tension. You give the best you have - you win or lose. What's the difference if you give all you've got to give?

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.

When I go out on court, I don't care what I look like. I don't care if I'm out of my bed as long as I win the match, and that's what I'm there for. It doesn't matter what I'm wearing, it doesn't matter what I look, it doesn't matter what my hair feels like. All I feel is the moment I have to play well, give my 100% and win the match.

You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.

At every Olympic Games, anything can happen that nobody can predict, so I did my best to win.

Everyone starts the playoffs with the same record. It doesn't matter who won 70 games or whatever.

If the teams with the best players always won, football would be boring.

On a good day everybody can beat everybody.

He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.

Everyone knows the game is about the players.

You learn their honesty, you learn their competitiveness. You learn a lot about a person. It's not that they have to sink the putt and there's a great deal of talent involved - but you do learn about how competitive a person is on the golf course, and frankly, how honest.

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.

The thing I like most about football is it's a meritocracy.

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.

Where we can compete on merit, we do very well.

I certainly don't lose any sleep if I lose a tennis match.

The cooperation of NASCAR - or any other system, it turns out - persists only when everyone believes he has the opportunity to win.

I think I have the ability to win any contest I enter. As long as I stay healthy and keep having fun with my skiing, there's no regressing.

Whenever I put myself out there on the line, skating against other people, I simply want to win.

You can call me a cheater and doper until the cows come home. But the fact remains that in a race where everybody had equal opportunity, I played the game, and I played it well.

I'm just trying to play my best and have fun.

The team with the best players wins.

I'm aware if I'm playing at my best I'm tough to beat. And I enjoy that.