Carl Hubbell Quotes

We might have, with Hockey Canada, an Aero Bar, a chocolate bar. 'Okay we're going to play for this chocolate bar.' Here you have guys who made millions of dollars, they're professional athletes, and they will fight tooth and nail to win. It's not necessarily for the chocolate bar. It's the competitive spirit.

I have a lot of competitive juices, and I want to go out and compete on the football field every day.

The '80s, '90s, and early 2000s genes of competitive fire are dead and gone.

It's basketball. At the end of the day everyone wants to win, and that's really the reason why we play is to win.

The only reason professional sports teams - I shouldn't say the only reason, but the most important reason professional sports teams exist - is to win. And if you're not aiming to win, then you really don't belong owning a sports team, in my opinion. So you've got to be moving there.

Being Number One isn't everything to me, but for those few hours on the court it's way ahead of whatever's in second place.

I loved to play, I was competitive, I wanted to win, that was all I knew. In the first few years tennis is a game. Later, it becomes a job.

When you are a professional sportsman all the guys are great competitors in the top 50.

If you got anything to you at all as an athlete and a competitor, you don't care what the circumstances are. You still got competition.

The only pressure I feel is how I can contribute to help my team win the match. Of course, there is always the pressure to score, but then doesn't it eventually help your team win? Frankly, I don't let these things affect me.

How you play the game is for college ball. When you're playing for money, winning is the only thing that matters.

To be able to have winning in your blood growing up, whether it was pounding my little brother or trying to beat my dad in something, or just competing on teams with my friends, it was nonstop.

I think you sign up to win games, and compete, and go out there and lead a team no matter how you can do that.

I always had that, even when I was a kid in a go-kart or when I was playing soccer or tennis: that need of winning. It was there all my life, and it's still there now.

You get into sports with the idea that you want to win. If you aren't trying to win, what's the point in being involved?

I'm just super competitive. Squash, tennis, water skiing, computer games... Even if I played you at pool, I'd have to win.

A college athlete is going to be competitive. You don't get to that level if you're not.

But I am a basketball player going out there to compete, I am going to try to win no matter what. That is just in my blood.

The competition that is the Premier League is the biggest challenge in itself. It's my job to get the players to believe that they can go in to every match and win.

To me, it's just another game of football - 11 players, a grass pitch. Regardless what shirt I have on, it's important you win the game, and I'm competitive as anyone, and I want to win every game, whether it's a Sunday league game, a five-a-side tournament, or a World Cup qualifier.

Having my dad play for the Falcons, what it did was really to expose me to a whole bunch of other elite-level athletes, which I think gives me an advantage and allowed me to understand what goes into sports. It is more than going out onto the field and going out onto the ice and competing.

I'm not a player any more, I'm a fan, and I want to see somebody who wants to win and wants to fight.

I want to be on a team that's got a chance. That's what's fun. That's what you play the game for.

I've never really been a numbers guy... I like to score, for sure... but my main thing is I want to win.

I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.