Zach Anner Quotes

If an athlete takes a shortcut - literally, for example, by running a street that shortens the marathon route by a quarter mile - he or she doesn't have an insurmountable advantage. But it's an unfair advantage, and in a field of equally matched athletes, it's more than enough to make a difference.

He's got an overall flair for the game. It looks to me like he really loves what he does and he can't wait to get up in the morning, go hit some balls and go play.

I created 'America's Next Top Model' one-hundred percent. I was in my kitchen making tea one morning, and I looked out the window, and the idea popped into my head. I wanted it to be 'American Idol' meets 'Ford Supermodel of the Year' meets 'The Real World.'

When you walk out of your house in the morning, you don't know what you're going to see.

I play this game to win.

I'm just trying to win games. If I keep doing that, it's all that matters.

It doesn't matter the level whether it is League Two or anywhere, you want to win games.

If you've got to win ugly, do it.

I'm very passionate, and I love the game I play.

Years before 'Tough Enough' came out - and I still have the papers - I filled out the entire application but never sent it in. I was like this is perfect, it's sports, I'm competitive, I could do that.

If I'm playing well, and we're winning games, that's what I want.

People would really hate playing against me if I could touch them.

When I open my eyes in the morning, I am not confronted by a world, but by a million possible worlds.

You don't go into the game to compete. You go into each game to win.

I'm a very competitive person, whether it's school, baseball or even playing video games.

What's great about this hotel [Sheraton Universal Hotel in Universal City, CA] is that I stayed here for a month when I was competing on the Oprah reality show. So it's like coming home.

Television is not my favorite medium, my favorite form of entertainment. Certainly game shows aren't. I don't watch reality shows at all.

I love to win. I'm very competitive in most games, but I think also the beauty of the game. There was something about it, the pieces, the shapes, something about them coordinating together and trying to get the other guy.

It's good to be a little frightened. It's good to respect your opponent. It keeps you sharp. In the fight game, the head rules the heart. But in the end the heart is the boss.

I'm a morning "spinner." That's usually when my brain is thinking too much and I don't necessarily see things positively. So I sit myself down and remember that I'm making it up. I believe we are creating in every moment - making up our reality, so to speak - so when anything gets chaotic or I feel spun out, I remind myself that everything is an interpretation. I can look at it differently and make it work for me in a more positive light.

I was probably born a scorer, but I was made a winner. Whatever works, whatever wins championships, wins games, that's what I do.

There is nothing like waking up at six in the morning and changing a baby's nappy to bring you face to face with life's reality.

There's some great reality TV, and I'm not bagging on it completely.

I can play a power game, but I also have the ability to step it up to another level and hit shots even further on call.

No one reads novels anymore. And I don't see the situation improving. People prefer video games, reality TV, and films. There are so many reasons now not to read novels.