Joe Root Quotes

Every great basketball team, every team that's on a championship journey takes steps each year, taking a step further than they were the year before.

Whether we win 60 games or not, you build your habits back and get better that way. It may not be 60 wins, but you get better as a team.

We won the European Championship last September and now the world title. That is some year for French beach soccer! Now comes the hard part. We have to keep improving and that's difficult because it's tough to do better than winning a world title.

You can always argue you're never good enough until you win the Super Bowl. And even then, you're going to lose players, and you're not good enough then, either.

The only way to get to be the team you want to be is to get better every day.

I'm focused on going out and winning ballgames. Focused on getting better with the team every week.

I'm just worried about winning and making my teammates better and getting better.

Competition in football means someone will improve.

You know when you have a manager that is always successful, is always in the title race and always playing in the Champions League.

Sustained success is largely a matter of focusing regularly on the right things and making a lot of uncelebrated little improvements every day.

It's not that difficult to win. It's more difficult to win consistently and stay on top.

How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win.

The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: do more of what you do.

I never had goals to be in the top 10 or top five in the world. I just try to find the borders, find what level I can reach. I have a good team around me, so hopefully it's going to get even better.

I'm going to go out and try to be the best player I can be and help the Chicago Bears win.

My objective has always been to get better, no matter where my ranking is.

I'll continue to try to make changes to better improve the team.

But more than anything I kind of pride myself in continuing the process that we're trying to accomplish, and that's just to get better and work on my fundamentals. So that's been kind of in the theme now for a couple years and we stuck with it and that's kind of what I want to keep doing.

When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better.

My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same - it's to always be happy playing, it's to enjoy the game and improve always.

If we can play like that every week we'll get some level of consistency.

You don't become the leading spinner of the team by just talking. You have to perform well consistently over a long period of time. I have bowled well and won games for India. That is why I am the No. 1 spinner. Every time I have taken the field, I have given my 100%.

I want to consistently play well and win titles. I'm only at the beginning.

Of course, there will be few people who are sympathetic but you don't become a great team overnight, no matter how much money you have at your disposal.

Winning is not always the barometer of getting better.