Dikembe Mutombo Quotes

Kids should be encouraged to compete.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

I like the idea of teaching kids how to lose. That's a really important lesson in life. I don't like the idea of doing leadline where everyone gets a blue ribbon. I think it's unrealistic for kids and teaches the wrong lesson.

It's important for parents to put kids in positions where they can succeed and to teach competition because competition exists not only in sports.

I am proud of being a bad loser. Bad losers are winners. That is the way it should be.

When I think of the most valuable coach, I definitely think of a coach like Geno Auriemma, and the things I learned from him that stick out in my mind are his passion for the game, competing at all the little things and doing it at a high level.

You want to win everything possible and you try it every year, but you can't win everything, we know this as well but we have to play good football, we have to get the best of our team.

If you play hockey, you might as well win.

And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.

The greatest thing you can give a child is confidence.

It goes back to my childhood. I never expected not to win. It's about winning. Winning's fun.

I don't think it's fair to 12-, 13- and 14-year-olds to say 'Show us you're a winner right now!' Winning isn't everything. I'll never buy that thing that if a boy loses a football game, he's a loser in life.

You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward.

I have played on many teams throughout my career, and I know when a team has the tools, and the right positive attitude towards winning.

As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities.

I think I've always had a decent perspective on wins and losses on the tennis court.

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

What's a good tournament for him? Winning it. He's good enough.

There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win.

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.

I was always talking about what I could and would do, and you would always make rhymes about the competion even though we werent thinking about competition.

I'm a competitive person and it is in my nature to try hard in every match I play. The only time I'm not competitive is when I'm playing against my mom.

Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is.

The Boys and Girls Club taught me a lot about sportsmanship, humility, self-respect.