Chris Harris Jr. Quotes

The will to win is the only thing.

Every Mexican fighter has the heart; they work hard with their training, and they never give up. That's the mentality I always had and always saw growing up.

It's not about tippy-tappy, namby-pamby football. It's a battle, and we have to be ready for it.

It's a war of wills out there on the court. You have to have a stronger will than your opponent, and every guy on your team has to feel that same way against the guy he's guarding.

I go for the ball as if it's the last.

I don't think you can ever get bored or lose focus as a competitor.

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.

I want it more. That's all it really is. Nobody wants to get hit every possession to get a rebound, and I want to.

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

In my opinion, if you only show quality but no fighting spirit, you are half a player.

In anything, I always give my all. I'm not a good loser.

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.

Maybe because I am from a sports background, I don't give up easily. I am a fighter.

That is an important part of my success. Another big part of my success is that I hated not to finish a race.

I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened.

The integral part of being a star is having the will to win. All the champions have it.

I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

But there was no question in my mind that I was gonna still go for it. I was still going for the win. I wasn't skiing for second or third place today, and in the end I think that's probably what got me there.

If you bleed Black Label and you're going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you gotta do every day, relentless and as tired as you can be.

We have this culture valued at Uber, which we call the champions' mind-set. And champions' mind-set isn't always about winning. It's about putting everything you have on the field, every ounce of passion and energy you have. And if you get knocked down, overcoming adversity.

You need to possess more than a little nastiness to play basketball at the highest level.

I don't ever want the players to relax in a game.