Jill Ellis Quotes

I have always said that great players must always play for the great clubs.

They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.

I want to play my best tennis and see how far I can go.

Like I said, when you have to play against a great player every night, that defines who you are if you can compete on that same level night in and night out.

We're focusing on producing top, great athletes for the Olympics.

It's a very competitive thing, pro sports. The hardest thing in pro sports is staying up there.

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.

Winning is everything, especially at this stage of my career - I'm going into Year 7. Because I've been franchise-tagged twice, I've been in a position where it's not about the money so much; it's about winning. I want to win.

It's one of my goals to play in the best leagues and against the best players.

I ran track and played football... I was an all-American.

Ultimately I want to win. That's my main focus as my rookie year.

In 2003, being Virginia Player of the Year was an amazing feeling because I think that was the moment I realized I could actually, really go far in my sport, and I was actually, really good at something. At that moment, I knew that I could play at a high level.

Obviously, at PSG, they have the best players in the world. Being with that group has really made me strong. I have watched the ins and outs of everyone, Neymar and Mbappe and all those guys in training, and I really feel that it has moulded me into a stronger person and a fighter, and it made me a lot hungrier than before.

One of the cool things about amateur athletics is that, I think, the pursuit is sort of the pursuit of excellence for nothing more than trying to be excellent.

I want to have records on the field and do things on the field. That's what this is about.

Tennis is a very interesting world. It's a sport of opportunities, but it's a sport of challenges as well. And for anybody to continue to progress, they have to understand what those challenges are.

I thought it was very important to keep growing with Atletico and to play there for many years.

I'm determined to become the best backyard athlete ever.

As a cricketer - or any sportsperson, for that matter - you like yourself to be tested and get better all the time.

I'm lanky and I've always been lanky, but I was a really good athlete. Everything I've ever done in sports, I've done at a high level. I had a passion for what I was doing, and I had to be the best at everything.

As a competitor, as a guy that wants to play, of course, it would be great to go out and play.

I want my performance to be at the highest level of anybody in the company. I want to make everybody step up to me.

I can 100 percent compete at the top level in every game that I play.

My main thing over the years is to try to get on a team and be on a team that wins games.

When I picked athletics, I knew I wanted to be an Olympic champion.