David Silva Quotes

Before I was going into tournaments and just hoping I would win one match. But now I'll go into tournaments expecting to do well and if I bring my best game I know I can win them and beat all the big players.

Every athlete at his peak is going to perform with a different mental cocktail. I thrive in the underdog, reserved, it's-not-over-till-it's-over mindset.

You have to go into each match believing you can beat all of the players.

I do a lotta trash talking to keep me motivated, to keep me to not want to lose.

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

What I learned from that loss, and also another loss that I'm going to talk about later, was that when you're there, it's not good enough to be there, when you're there, you better walk away with that ring.

If I'm not Top 10 or seeded every tournament, it really doesn't matter. I can beat anyone on a good day.

There are at least three kinds of advantages that the pitcher and batter contest. There's the physical advantage, the strategic advantage, and also the psychological advantage. I didn't want two out of three. I wanted them all.

If you're scared to lose rather than excited to win, then that's the wrong way to approach a race.

You don't have to like me as a person - I understand that I can get on people's nerves with the antics I do in the ring. This is not a popularity contest. I'm trying to do whatever I can to win the fight.

The battle to win - on the pitch and in the boardroom - begins and ends in one's head.

It is important to start winning international tournaments early and get that mentality into you. Then, hopefully, you can take it on to the world stage.

I think something that has separated me from the rest of the competition - maybe it's just my way of thinking - I don't necessarily go into fights just wanting to win but to actually dominate. So when I don't feel like I dominate, sometimes I feel like a loser, I guess, you know, maybe in that perspective.

If I'm on my way to play a round of golf there is an anxiety in me, a feeling of 'I can't lose today.'

I don't really worry about what the defense is trying to scheme to do against me. It really doesn't matter.

Some might say friendlies are unimportant, but we always try to win because we then maintain that positive mentality when the real competitions start.

The idea is to go out there and win in a dominant fashion. That changes people's minds, the way they're thinking about me, and lets people know I'm here to contend for a title.

If you want to win a Grand Slam, when you dream, you say, 'I want Serena in the final.'

When it came to playing Arsenal over the last eight years of my career at United, we always went into games against them feeling like we would win - and we usually did.

When you're going out with the attitude that you want to win, you can't get caught up in the style of play.

If any player in the world tells you he doesn't care about what the opponents do, he is lying.

I have no doubt in my abilities that I can beat any of the top ten guys. Once I'm focused I know I can beat them.

So I had to change my mental outlook from, 'wow, this is Lee Haney, the icon we are all trying to aspire to,' to, 'this is the guy I am trying to beat.' I thought, 'I can't be in awe of this guy because, if that is your attitude then you're not going to have much chance of winning.'

People used to talk to me about that and say, 'Rom doesn't play with passion.' I do, but I don't show it too much because in my mind, I'm a guy that thinks a lot about how to win the game. Sometimes I let the emotions just come now, and it helps me.

I treat every camp the same. Every fight since my debut has always been a must-win.