Cobi Jones Quotes

The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves.

What matters is that on the pitch we give the maximum to prove that money is not everything.

My motivation is only for us to win a championship. Anything else, I'm not concerned about.

I'm trying to go to the playoffs. That's my goal. Everything else is going to fall in place.

I don't care if I'm starting or sweeping the floors. You hear me? I want to win.

I think that every player in every team must have an ambitious mind.

Obviously, I don't go into a game not wanting to do well. I go into every game to try to do my best for my team-mates and the club.

If you're not ambitious, there's no point in playing football.

I want my team to win.

I want to win with Monaco. I want to show that I'm 100 percent.

The playoffs bring the best out of people.

Ambition is important. Of course you can't get anywhere without talent, but there are a lot of talented people. To succeed, you have to be the most ambitious talented person.

My jersey hanging from the ceiling is going to be a symbol of the hard work of the people I played with.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference.

During the off-season when you see other people playing in the Super Bowl, you wonder, and you say to yourself, 'Are you ever gonna get there and see what it feels like?' And it pushes you a little bit harder during that off-season to work to try to get there the following year.

There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.

On the other hand, I have devoted so much energy to reach the top that I accept the stress of being there.

My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons.

Hard work pays off - hard work beats talent any day, but if you're talented and work hard, it's hard to be beat.

I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.

I just want to continue to play great football - that's all that matters. I don't really care about the accolades or any of that.

One thing I always tell people. If you want to be gold medalist, you partner one.

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.

I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.

Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.