Kelvin Sampson Quotes

One thing about championship teams is that they're resilient. No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity.

What's so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, 'We've been knocked down, let's get back up' mentality.

Plus, when you get in tough situations, like the bases loaded and nobody out, you never give in.

It's the playoffs. You find a way to get through.

You can't let injuries dictate the outcome of a football game. You have to persevere and keep fighting. That is how we are. If there is a blade of grass to defend or take, we do it.

Once you have come-from-behind wins, you have confidence as a team that you're going to do it.

Players that tend to respond to adversity the right way and triumph in the end are players with strong character. If you have enough guys like that in the clubhouse, you have an edge on the other team.

We'll not give up even if we're 12 points behind with one game left.

It's been a tough season for all of us, but all we can do is keep fighting and showing character to the end of the season

A true champion will fight through anything.

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.

I remember one game when I pitched in Yankee Stadium and gave up five runs in the first inning. It would have been easy to quit, but I shut 'em out the rest of the way, and we came back and won the game.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

I'm going to go down swinging... I'm sure as heck not going to go home and say I had a bad tournament.

A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.

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 real good teams and the real great teams find a way to win.

If you can accept losing, you can't win.

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

Don't matter what they throw at us. Only angry people win football games.

I think one of the great things about a football season is that you see teams play in all types of environments, and if you can't handle one of them, you probably don't deserve to win anyway.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

I'm definitely not at my best. Honestly, I'm under 50 percent. But I've won stuff under 50 percent before.

We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.

There will be times in South Africa when we will be challenged as a team. We have to stand up to that.