Paige VanZant Quotes

I certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose. So when you think about that, you're always motivated to, 'I don't want to lose the next game. I don't want to lose the next game.'

I always tried to win. I was as competitive as I am today.

I'm very easy-going off court, but I really want to win once I'm walking on to the court.

Since I was a child, I've always been annoyed if I didn't win. If I lost a match, I would be annoyed, and then I would just want to train so that I could win the next day.

Ever since I was a little kid, the last thing I wanted to do was lose. I hated losing. I still hate it. I guess you can see that when I'm out there.

Match play really exposes your character and how much of a will to win you have in your heart.

I'm just a very tough person when I go on the court, and I really don't want to lose.

It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.

In everything I've done, I always just hated to lose more than I like 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.

Being named Michael Jordan - I think growing up playing sports and having a name like Michael Jordan - and I was extremely competitive - I used to get teased a lot. But it made me want to strive for greatness and be able to compete at whatever I decided to do.

I'm just super competitive. Squash, tennis, water skiing, computer games... Even if I played you at pool, I'd have to win.

I've been competitive from day one. It's in my nature. Whether people recognize that or not, I don't know how they can't. I'm not gonna go out there and try to hurt somebody or win by all means. But if it's up in the air, I'm gonna try harder than you to get it done.

I have a huge desire to win. That is why I am aggressive in a positive sense on the field.

Winning was everything to me. I hated to lose.

If the play is drawn up for me, you better believe I'm going to go and try to win the game.

I always wanted to win. Everyone has a bit of that in them, but I have even more of a will to win. Sometimes I might go overboard, whereas there are others who, yes, they want to win, but if they don't, it's no big deal for them.

Great players, they always dig deep and have their will to win.

I have never gone into a competition wanting to lose. I have always gone in wanting to win.

I have to win, even if I'm just playing ping pong.

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'm the kind of competitor where if I'm able to play, I've got to play.

I was extremely competitive, so for me becoming a footballer was not necessarily because it was about being the best - it was about winning.

I have a lot of competitive juices, and I want to go out and compete on the football field every day.

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.