Klay Thompson Quotes

When you're competitive, the last thing you want to do is come out of a game, regardless of what kind of injury it is - whether it's an ankle, a knee, a rib, or a head injury.

I feel like I have to step on the court every night and be dominant.

Everybody gets all worked up about trash talk but it is what it is - it's talk... You ask any player, honestly, if trash talk's gonna affect how hard they play, because if a little trash talk affects how hard they can play, it just lets us know that they were holding back or weren't playing harder or as hard as they could.

I don't blame David Stern because a player gets on the court and he doesn't put out competitively. No one can make you play if you don't want to play.

All I cared about in tennis was winning.

It annoys me a little when people try to be positive when I don't play my best. I play to win. I'm like that. I'm like any other player. I'm never happy.

Obviously, I don't want to be in the box for over a hundred minutes during the season, but at the same time I have to try to play with an edge and battle out there.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

As far as the anxiety, I have no idea about it. I don't feel like I have any nervousness out there. I'm just a guy who really cares about being competitive and that's the bottom line.

A major final to a tennis player is sacred ground. Short of any type of serious injury - soft-tissue tears, serious orthopedic injuries or a major illness like throwing up, dehydration or cramping - you keep going, especially in the final of a Slam.

I've always thought of myself as the best defensive player in the league, and I want to play like the best defensive player in the league.

It doesn't really matter to me whether you start or not. I play a lot of fourth quarters. I think that's what's most important to me. I think that's what I've always cared about, just having an opportunity to finish games when it's really winning time.

It is difficult to single out any one player, as I aim to give my best against every single player that I have played so far against.

Even when I played in club matches, I would take it to heart that I had got out early.

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 think, bottom line, I have to be good enough to make the team. I have to bring something in and beat somebody else out, especially with a smaller roster for the Olympics.

I wouldn't say I've changed at all. A lot of people will keep saying I'm a different person, especially when I go across those white lines. I think it's just the hunger and desire and passion I've got for the game.

You can't hold up in a FIBA game if you don't have great competitive spirit.

Learning how to compete is one of the most important things that an athlete can do. You can train as well as you possibly can and go compete and completely choke.

If any player in the world tells you he doesn't care about what the opponents do, he is lying.

Every moment, every practice, every game, everywhere; I just love competing. Competition is in my DNA.

There are guys that you look at and you want to really bowl at them or bat against them, certain guys who really get your juices flowing.

The NBA is always looking for tough kids who aren't afraid of the moment or the guy they're playing against.

I go into every game like I'm playing at school!

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