Zach LaVine Quotes

I like to relax; of course I do! But when I am inside the pitch, that is it. You have to go on full on from the first minute.

What's important to us is developing the habit of playing harder than our opponent every night.

I don't know whether it's the athlete in me or the passion I have for the game: I always think that I can step back on the field and play.

Whenever I was on the pitch, I always tried to win.

As an individual, I take every match seriously, no matter who I'm going to play.

When you're on court, you just want to win. You're a competitor.

If you want to win, you come to play; I don't come to half-step. If you think that you're No. 2 out there, then you won't be nothing. You can't have that. You have to be No. 1. That's the thing.

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 play hard all the time and bring a lot of energy to the table.

I'm going to compete every possession.

I live every training session to the fullest as if it were a final.

I have always and will continue to put myself in the mix at the end of every tournament. That's what I play for.

I approach every game with the same level of seriousness.

I just try to play every game like it's Game 7 of the NBA Finals.

I train harder than anyone else in the world. Last year I was supposed to take a month off and I took three days off because I was afraid somebody out there was training harder. That's the feeling I go through every day - Am I not doing what somebody else is doing? Is someone out there training harder than I am? I can't live with myself if someone is.

You always want to feel better but I'm good. My thing is once you get to the playoffs, you do whatever it takes. You've got to lay it on the line.

Every game I've ever played, regardless if it was pre-season or Super Bowl, meant the same to me, and I laid it all on the line.

I'm just here to compete and do the best I can and let things play out and just be the best teammate I can be, regardless of the situation.

If you got anything to you at all as an athlete and a competitor, you don't care what the circumstances are. You still got competition.

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

Everyone wants to beat us. So you can never take a single game lightly.

When I go out on court, I don't care what I look like. I don't care if I'm out of my bed as long as I win the match, and that's what I'm there for. It doesn't matter what I'm wearing, it doesn't matter what I look, it doesn't matter what my hair feels like. All I feel is the moment I have to play well, give my 100% and win the match.

I've been in basketball a long time, and nobody is more of a competitor than I am.

You have to go into each match believing you can beat all of the players.

Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is.