Eric Yuan Quotes

My motivation is like it is always, try to be the best and try to win, that is part of my character.

I certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose. So when you think about that, you're always motivated to, 'I don't want to lose the next game. I don't want to lose the next game.'

Since I was a child, I've always been annoyed if I didn't win. If I lost a match, I would be annoyed, and then I would just want to train so that I could win the next day.

I always tried to win. I was as competitive as I am today.

It annoys me a little when people try to be positive when I don't play my best. I play to win. I'm like that. I'm like any other player. I'm never happy.

I always had that, even when I was a kid in a go-kart or when I was playing soccer or tennis: that need of winning. It was there all my life, and it's still there now.

I think I was born with that desire to win and attention to detail.

The way I operate is I want to win, so I'll do whatever.

I play to win. If I have great numbers, that's great. Obviously you feel good about it, but still, I'm playing to win.

It doesn't matter if it's cards, doesn't matter if I am racing home from dinner or something, I just want to be the first to do it. That's just kind of my mentality. That's been my mentality for a long time. It's kind of the way I was raised.

I don't really play off nerves. I just want to win.

At the end of the day, I play to win, and otherwise, I wouldn't be good at my job.

I was extremely competitive, so for me becoming a footballer was not necessarily because it was about being the best - it was about winning.

Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. If you can shrug off a loss, you can never be a winner!

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.

I'm just a very tough person when I go on the court, and I really don't want to lose.

I'm just competitive. It doesn't matter what it is. I want to win.

If there is one thing that all players have in common it is that winning, competitive gene; the ability to overcome obstacles and fight for what you want from your career.

To be able to have winning in your blood growing up, whether it was pounding my little brother or trying to beat my dad in something, or just competing on teams with my friends, it was nonstop.

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

I love winning more than I love playing badminton. Winning is everything.

It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.

As far as the anxiety, I have no idea about it. I don't feel like I have any nervousness out there. I'm just a guy who really cares about being competitive and that's the bottom line.

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?

I don't really care if I play really well, well, or okay. I want to win.