Phil Hellmuth Quotes

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

Obviously, you always want to win, but you want to win by skiing a race that you're proud of and you feel like you really challenged yourself and left it all out there.

I think competing gets overlooked sometimes. The competitiveness that you bring to a game and an at-bat, it can go a long way. It really can.

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

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

Each match I play is the most important one yet.

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

My whole life I've hated to lose, no doubt about it. I've been guilty of that since I was 6 years old, at camp. I have always played to win. That's who I am. But I never hurt anybody. The problem is when you're perceived as being too aggressive where you hurt somebody or do something improper.

I don't play to sweat, I play to win.

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 playing or managing, the game of ball is only fun for me when I'm out in front and winning. I don't give a hill of beans for the rest of the game.

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.

A college athlete is going to be competitive. You don't get to that level if you're not.

I'm a quiet guy, but on the pitch, it's different. You have to do everything you can to win and help your teammates.

People sometimes have a false view of track and field, that it's kind of soft and kind of friendly. And guys aren't necessarily laughing and joking, but everyone's just friendly and 'ha ha, he he.' I just came in and just was like, 'Nah, I don't know what y'all talking about, but every single time I step on the line, I'm trying to win.'

I'm not going to lie: I'm a competitive player. I think there's no point playing football if you're not competitive and you don't want to win games.

My coaches sometimes say I'm a little bit too competitive. But I want to win, and I feel like we should win every game.

I want to win all the time; even in a dice game I want to win.

I don't really play off nerves. I just want to win.

Good athletes will be there at good competitions, but I don't think about them; I just think of bettering my own time.

Anything I do that's competitive, I try to win. That's the way I've always been, and I like to keep it that way no matter what I'm doing.

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

The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body's normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.