Diego Costa Quotes

Match play really exposes your character and how much of a will to win you have in your heart.

When I step on the field, you know what you gonna get.

I'm very competitive. I remember being 4 years old trying to out-chug my dad in a milk-chugging contest. It's been in my blood.

I was a competitive guy growing up.

I'm very, very competitive. If my grandmother asks to race me down the street, I'm going to try to beat her. And I'll probably enjoy it!

Never played football, but I'm an athlete. I'm a competitor.

I'm very competitive. If I have to 'turn it on,' I know how to. The switch isn't hard to find, don't worry.

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 with a lot of emotion because I'm a passionate guy, and I play with that passion. I love playing that way. Sometimes you're late onto the ball, sometimes you're not. Sometimes you make contact with the guy when you tackle him, sometimes not. It's a sport where individual duels are vital, so I don't see it as a problem.

Most pro athletes are super competitive, super clutch, and they don't want to lose at anything.

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.

When I put my helmet on, I'm ultra competitive, talking trash.

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

I'm competitive, and I think everybody knows that if you're talking trash, you're gonna get a reaction out of me.

Every great player has a big character. I don't know any player with a lot of quality who just has quality - you have to have an ego and character to be the main person on the pitch.

In Uruguay, we are competitive; that's part of our character.

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.

In high school, I had gym, and with me just being so competitive, I would go too hard in gym class.

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

Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves.

Ever since I was a little kid, I was competitive.

I'm a very competitive girl. In everything I do.

What people see on court is another side of me; it's not me.

You learn their honesty, you learn their competitiveness. You learn a lot about a person. It's not that they have to sink the putt and there's a great deal of talent involved - but you do learn about how competitive a person is on the golf course, and frankly, how honest.

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.