Tristan Thompson Quotes

When I start something I bring my A-game - I assume I'm going to win.

I expected to play well, I expected to lead my team, and I expected to win.

I feel like in order for our team to have the upper hand, I have to play extremely well, and I have to bring the rest of the team with me. That's how I feel approaching every game.

When you go out on the field, you don't go out to make friends... I play to win the game and not just to compete.

It doesn't matter whether it is your first game or your last game: you want to win.

We go into every game looking to win them.

I see myself as the best fighter in the world and that's because I have to. There can't be any other way. I can't go into a fight with the other names that are around my weight, who want the same as me, and not believe that I'm better than them.

Whenever I'm on the pitch, I feel confident.

The thing it taught me was that winning's a helluva lot more fun than losing. It also taught me that the team with the best players that worked together the best wins.

It doesn't matter what I think. It doesn't matter what other people think. You have to get on the ice and participate and play and the best team wins.

Sometimes I can wake up and I can beat anyone.

I'll practice as good as I can, but I know that I play even better, with the qualities I have - leadership, my ability to make something happen in games, winning.

As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.

Theater and sports are connected. You've got your team - or ensemble - your goal and your determination to win.

I look forward to competing.

I don't play to sweat, I play to win.

Every time I step on the field, I step on the field to make plays.

I believed in what I was. I didn't believe that would translate into any of the five championships. But I knew that I could affect the game.

I try to be myself. Do anything to win games.

If you want to win, you come to play; I don't come to half-step. If you think that you're No. 2 out there, then you won't be nothing. You can't have that. You have to be No. 1. That's the thing.

I try to win every time I'm out there.

At the end of the day, we all play for one reason and that's to win.

I never played for records. If I had played for records, then I would have had many more runs against my name. If, by your performance, the team wins, then that is what is most gratifying.

I really don't care about stats. I don't care about any of that stuff. I just care about performing each and every weekend and helping my team win ball games.

It's important to keep winning games.