Jayson Tatum Quotes

In football, day in day out, you always have to show your worth.

Whenever something in the system changes, you have to prove yourself again. But wherever you go, you have to prove that you're better than whoever else is on the team. At a team like Arsenal, that's always going to be hard so I always have to be on it in training and matches.

I think every NBA player is trying to prove himself every day.

I want to be an NBA all-star and help my team win. That's what it's all about, is winning. I'm a competitor... People said a lot about me being selfish and stuff like that. Getting into the league, I can't wait to shut that down. I'm a guy who wants to play and to win and love my teammates.

Every first-class season is important; every game is crucial, irrespective of whether you are in the Indian team or not.

I wanted to be a football player. Football is a sport that I love, but the more I started playing basketball, the more I started dreaming of playing in the NBA.

It's always hard - if you're not the best player on your team, how can you be the best player in college?

You now have these owners who are all successful businessmen, and they think they should be winning. They come in thinking that they should be winning. Some don't understand that only one team can win the league.

It's good to be competitive when everyone wants to be in the starting line-up.

I feel like I should be an NBA player.

I think everyone in this league should aim to become good enough to shoot for the MVP. Not everyone can do it, but you've gotta try your hardest.

When I was a little kid, I looked at my mom, stepdad and said, 'I want to be an NBA player,' just because I love to play the game of basketball like 24/7.

In NBA anything is possible.

I think when I came into the league, I had to find something that would keep me around. I knew I wasn't going to get the ball a lot, being the younger guy on my team. I knew I wasn't going to play a lot unless I made some sort of impact on the floor. I wasn't the best shot blocker, so I said, 'Let's be the best rebounder the league has ever seen.'

You get older, and you want to be a professional athlete; you want to win on the biggest stage.

I wanted to go the NBA and win a championship because I've never seen a grown man cry the way Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan cried when they won a championship.

When I played for Arsenal, like once per month, you always had this feeling you had to perform.

Every team I'm on, I expect to win. I expect to push my teammates as much as I can, and I expect them to do the same with me.

When your best player puts it on the line every day, the other guys can't cut corners

Being a coach's son, they're hard on you. When you say you want to be great, they do everything they can do to put you in that position.

To play for Chelsea, you have to put your mind to winning titles every year.

I have always wanted to fight no matter what position I am in, and whether that is Liverpool or England, I need to do more, and I need to do better because you have younger players, or players get signed for the club who push you and want to take your place, and you have to be better than them.

I had dreams of being a professional rugby player.

I'm not just here to get a paycheck and leave. I'm here to be one of the greatest basketball players to ever play.

We always try give the best of us in training to go in the cage and have a good performance, thus giving millions for the company. We also want to have part of these millions.