Greg LeMond Quotes

I cannot see a situation when I won't feel pressure to play well and win.

Being the heavy favorite is not always a good thing because of the amount of pressure on an athlete.

You are anxious before every game because you had to win it. If you didn't you went down the ladder. I felt proud of the way we beat some teams in tough games.

The life of a professional golfer is precarious at best. Win, and they carry you to the clubhouse on their shoulders. Lose, and you pay the caddies in the dark.

I think we all have had better days in competition.

What I went through in 1976, it's the same today: It's about all the pressure that you feel, the anxiety, the family, and everything that surrounds the Games, and then getting there knowing this is your big chance, and you're able to come through. It's such a satisfying thing.

If I didn't think I could win the World Championship I would go and play golf badly in Spain.

You can always tell the golfer who's winning: he's the one who keeps telling his opponent that it's only a game.

I guess if I looked at it from an athletic standpoint, I don't really need to win another Tour. Seven Tours for me was a dream, six broke the record, so that eight doesn't really mean much.

Last year I was the favorite going into the world champs in Beijing, but I felt like I had to do something phenomenal in order to win. Instead of just having fun and competing, it became "I want to win so bad." But the person who wants it the most doesn't win. It's the person who executes. I still look back on that 200-meter race and say what the hell happened? I wasn't hurt, I wasn't sick, the conditions were perfect, and I ran like total crap.

Nobody cares about the bronze or silver medals.

I don't play to sweat, I play to win.

Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.

In playing or managing, the game of ball is only fun for me when I'm out in front and winning. I don't give a hill of beans for the rest of the game.

It is difficult to be yourself on court, as you become very involved in the match and very focused.

Being named Michael Jordan - I think growing up playing sports and having a name like Michael Jordan - and I was extremely competitive - I used to get teased a lot. But it made me want to strive for greatness and be able to compete at whatever I decided to do.

Once you become an Olympic champion, you are expected to win all the time.

As a competitor, you're always taught that you want win championships. You want to put yourself in the best place to do that.

I'm all about winning. It doesn't matter if I start, or if I don't start, if I play or if I don't play. As long as we're winning, that's all I care about.

When you are in the second position and you want to be champions, you are always under pressure.

I love to have the pressure of having to win every game, love the pressure of keeping clean sheets every game, no matter if we're 5-0 or 6-0 up.

You have to forget you are playing against your idol, because the guy on the other side also wants to play better than you and beat you. I don't think you should allow yourself to think like this when you go against any player.

I am not thinking about World Cup and all those things. You can't play freely if you start thinking like that.

Every time we step on the field, we want to score. If we don't, then we're disappointed. We don't settle for three.

When you're in the second set and you start thinking I have to win this and get it over, the pressure to finish quickly can get to you.