Hannah Kearney Quotes

I've never been more motivated to be No. 1 in the world. I've never been more motivated to try to extend that lead from one to two. All the hard work that I've put into my game right now has paid off, but I've got to keep working hard to win as much as I can.

I probably went into sports with a sense of competitiveness and came out of it even more competitive.

And I want a gold medal more than anything. I just want a gold medal, so that's been pushing me forward.

I've always craved winning. It's just easier in sports because there's a scoreboard.

I want to be great - in everything I do. As far as football, I always looked up to Kellen Moore of Boise State. I thought it was the coolest thing that he was the winningest QB of all time.

Always, as a player, you are questioned and challenged about the next step. That's what drives the very best: they want to continually win.

I want to be the top man in our sport. I want to be that guy everyone wants to see skate.

If we're playing and competing at the level we want to and we know we can, then nothing else is really going to matter.

What drives me is winning championships.

Being an Olympian, I always have this strong belief in excellence.

To me, everything's competition.

From a personal point of view I want some medals because that is what you aim for when you start out playing.

The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.

All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.

Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

For eight or 10 years, I got wrapped up in chasing records. Everything was a number. Didn't matter what I won, it was a number. Every horse I rode was a number.

Tiger Woods makes me a better athlete.

Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.

Essentially, I am a dreamer. I've dreamed all my life. When I started, I dreamed I'd be Champion because it is a sport that is all about the people who win the most, and I have a fear of not winning.

When I need to push myself, I think of all those nicely polished trophies waiting to be lifted up by the winner - and how that winner might be me.

I'm not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I'm doing. So if I'm playing basketball, if I'm taking the SATs, like, there's a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it's the same thing.

You get so addicted to winning that you don't want that feeling to stop.

I don't have to use anything to motivate me, a trade or anything like that, for me to say I want to win a championship.

You always have to aspire to everything; winning titles is what I've been missing. And I will give my life and everything I have in order to achieve it.