John McGinn Quotes

I want to be a top player.

As a player you always feel the pressure and as a team you are always trying to make sure the opposition are under it.

I can honestly say I want to be one of the best to ever play the game.

I gotta be able to beat good guys at any moment. I think that's what I'm taking.

I'm working with elite players, and they test and challenge you.

Maybe I wish I could be out there on the big occasions playing like I did at my peak, but I certainly don't miss the six and seven hours a day practice that went hand in hand with being world champion in the nineties - or losing to guys knowing that it would never have happened when I was at my best.

I want to become a world-class player.

I want to play against the best, and that's what I'm doing, just going out there and being focused, just competing every possession.

You have to play your 'A' game in every single match and that's a good thing.

The playoffs is when I'm at my best.

I didn't get into this to pick up a new hobby. I don't want to just be a golfer. I want to be the best.

As a footballer, you always want to test yourself against the best.

Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.

When you're young, you develop ways to win, and you think they will always work, but then you get to the top, competing against the other top athletes, and sometimes things don't work.

When I'm playing my best, like I was at the U.S. Open, I feel on top of the match and able to do exactly what I want. There are other times when you're not in control, but that is tennis and you have momentum changes in every single match.

I'm going to go out and try to be the best player I can be and help the Chicago Bears win.

You can't control what the other athlete is going to do; you can't control anything except for your competition and how you execute the race or how you execute the task.

I love playing under pressure. In fact, if there's no pressure, then I'm not in the perfect zone.

There's no day when I don't think it would be great to be 25 years old and have the Olympics coming in less than 300 days - and be the best in the world. I can't think of anything so motivating.

When you're playing the best player in the world, you've got to play well.

It doesn't matter the way you're playing, especially the beginning of a grand slam. It doesn't change anything.

For me, I just love running in the big moments. That's always been the way. That is what you work so hard for. You don't work hard to run fast in practice or to run fast at small meets.

I'm just a basketball player going out there and trying to get wins.

It's important to go out on the pitch and make a fantastic performance.

Lately, I have realised that when you play at the highest level, you have to play according to what the team demands.