Ian Botham Quotes

Winning isn't everything, but playing and competing and striving and going through things can be a lot of fun and really important. As long as you're doing it in a way that's healthy, sports can be an incredible opportunity.

When we're doing everything we can to win, it's very fun.

I want to have fun on the pitch in the training sessions and have fun and win during the matches.

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.

When I grew up, my father taught us the value of hard work. He wanted us to enjoy ourselves, but he also wanted to know what it took to be successful. He coached a lot of our sports teams growing up. We weren't very good, but we learned about hard work and enjoying life and your teammates.

In football, you can win; you can lose. The most important thing is the feeling and the attitude that you show on the pitch.

The great thing about sports is you constantly have to prove yourself. You constantly have to go out there and do it, day in and day out.

All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.

As a young athlete, it was first about having fun; then it was about winning.

It's good fun, yes, but when we play, we take it seriously and want to do well.

I do genuinely believe that young people who play sport at a competitive level, sensibly controlled, sensibly organised, that has to be a good thing. It will teach them to win, it will teach them to lose with dignity and magnanimity - all the things you want. It's a pretty good metaphor for life.

I've got to stand up for the sport.

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?

Winning isn't all that matters.

Badminton is not only about winning. What is important to me is about playing hard, doing my best and putting up a good show for the spectators.

All my hard work is to win ballgames.

There is nothing better than playing for the championship at any level of football.

As far as I am concerned, my priority is to perform well and win matches for India.

I'm thinking bigger picture; I want a championship.

Just keep having fun. It's basketball. So that's what I'm going to keep doing.

Every coach wants to win, but it's not easy to do that.

I want my team to win.

Winning is important in this league. Just check your ego at the door. It's all about winning. That's what we all should be striving for.

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

I just want the team to win, no matter what the cost is.