Pierre de Coubertin Quotes

I'm going to go in and play, because the most important thing is playing on the field and being able to contribute. I really am ready.

Who cares if you get last place. This is the Olympics. Making it is the hard part.

Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.

The most important thing, in anything you do, is always trying your hardest, because even if you try your hardest and it's not as good as you'd hoped, you still have that sense of not letting yourself down.

I'm excited to be a part of the Olympic movement again.

If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.

If you're not a competitor, you've just got to go home.

I love this game. When I step on the court I'm going to compete. That's one of the reasons I work hard every day.

It doesn't matter whether it is your first game or your last game: you want to win.

When I finish games, I want to have the feeling that I helped my team as much as I could, and the fans saw I was determined to win.

Everyone is committed to giving their best and to putting in 100 percent in every match to win.

For me, what it means to be competitive is to work hard but compete in this type of game when you need to play, you need to suffer, you need to fight.

When you're on the pitch, you give 100 percent to win the game.

I mean, sometimes if you're not always going to win on the scoreboard, you want to make sure that you're there physically.

All my hard work is to win ballgames.

Sports are in my soul. That's what drives me.

I just try to compete every night.

Regardless of what the record is, what the score is, you always go out there and compete.

If I lose the ball, I want to be the first one trying to win it back.

I must do my all, try to win every game.

I must continue to work hard to help my teammates. Competition always exists in football.

Everyone wants to win. But to truly succeed - whether it is at a sport or at your job or in life - you have to be willing to do the hard work, overcome the challenges, and make the sacrifices it takes to be the best at what you do.

To borrow a simile from the football field, we believe that men must play fair, but that there must be no shirking, and that the success can only come to the player who hits the line hard.

To win you've got to stay in the game.

There is no royal road to a successful life, as there is no royal road to learning. It has got to be hard knocks, morning, noon, and night, and fixity of purpose.