David Robinson Quotes

It's a quality you need to be a world champion; you have to have that killer instinct.

You got to have the killer instinct. If you do not have it, forget about basketball and go into social psychology or something. If you sometimes wonder if you've got it, you ain't got it. No pussycats, please.

I think, when I'm on the court, I become with a killer instinct - a real Scorpio.

I was inspired by the way the Aussies played their cricket. It was no-holds barred. They played to win.

I'm the type of player, once I get in there, I'm locked in. I'm trying to win.

The greatest competitor was Bob Gibson. He worked so fast out there and he always had the hood up. He always wanted to close his own deal. He never talked to you because he was battling so hard. I sure as hell don't miss batting against him, but I miss him in the game.

I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard.

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

When I walk out there on court, I become a maniac... Something comes over me, man.

You don't have to like me as a person - I understand that I can get on people's nerves with the antics I do in the ring. This is not a popularity contest. I'm trying to do whatever I can to win the fight.

I'm a finisher. I'm a shark, and if I see blood, I'm gonna finish you.

Whenever I play against Arsenal - and this is just a personal thing - I go up and think 'let me whack the first one, then we will see who wants it.'

With MJ and Kobe, what you get is you get people who is talking trash to you and backing it up.

Durant, man! Has that killer instinct.

Great players always play with a chip on their shoulder no matter if they have a reason to or not.

For me personally, nothing ever changes. When I go out onto the pitch, I always want to win. All the other circumstances, whether we're favourites or underdogs, whether we're under pressure or not, doesn't make a big difference.

People say I'm cold, that I'm impersonal on the court. Well, let me tell you, it's blood and guts out there.

I love winning, I love playing to win. You need some of that to be a bowler. You need to have a hatred for the batsman to make sure you have that real fire to perform.

People used to talk to me about that and say, 'Rom doesn't play with passion.' I do, but I don't show it too much because in my mind, I'm a guy that thinks a lot about how to win the game. Sometimes I let the emotions just come now, and it helps me.

You have to have that dog-eat-dog kind of mentality. I think me playing football all my life and having that chip on my shoulder, not really getting the opportunities that I wanted, really carried over to track and field. It allowed me to use all that energy and put it in the direction of being the best track athlete that I could be.

Now that I'm losing some, I can see how tough I was -- the killer instinct, the single-mindedness, playing like a machine. Boy, that's what made me a champion.

Successful competitors want to win. Head cases want to win at all costs.

I just try to win the match by fighting for every point, and running down every ball.

The greatness of Michael Jordan is his competitive drive. The weakness of Michael Jordan is his competitive drive

When you step onto that field, you cannot concede a thing.