Oksana Baiul Quotes

The whole competition thing disturbs me. Not that I wasn't a part of it when I first started.

People love to say we get paid a lot of money to play a game, but it stopped being a game when you start getting paid.

You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.

We all say, 'You don't have to run around playing all these tournaments and trying to conquer the world like Dr. Evil.'

I lost races because I wanted too much to win them in beating my rivals.

When I was a kid. I had traveled the world by the time I was 13 years old because of all the competitions I did for inline skating.

Like I said, when you have to play against a great player every night, that defines who you are if you can compete on that same level night in and night out.

It is a player's league until you lose.

I think it's normal to have competition once you get to the professional level.

I really enjoy encountering a celebrity who's like, 'Let's go; you'd better have your A-game on.' You sit down with Madonna, and she's like, 'You'd better have something for me. If you're not ready to dance, I'll eat you up.'

When you are a footballer, you will not always play 90 minutes. Sometimes you are not happy, but this is not important for me.

As a soccer player you want to perform, whether it's in front of 72,000 or even 1,000. You always want to be your best because you never know who's watching.

Anytime you get to go up against guys that have done well in this league, who have dominated in this league, you have got to rise to the challenge.

Whether you are fighting for the title or fighting at the bottom, you are always professional and want to win every game.

At the end of the day, I play to win, and otherwise, I wouldn't be good at my job.

Dallas was top-notch professional and they wanted to win every game.

You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.

This ain't the Girl Scouts. This ain't the Boy Scouts. This is the NBA.

We're the most experienced team in the league. I think we got a little too happy, running our mouths, jumping up and down, looking at the Heat dancers and all of that stuff. We had to step it up and show them what we're all about.

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

I viewed it as a business, but I always viewed it as a game. An opportunity to show my skills, my basketball skills, amongst the best in the world.

The game has such a hold on golfers because they compete not only against an opponent, but also against the course, against par, and most surely- against themselves.

Even when I took first prize, topped the class, won the race, I never really won anything. I was merely avoiding the embarrassment of losing.

I am the MVP and I gotta worry about the trade talk.

I was very disappointed (at the U.S. Open), and I went out there and I worked really hard.