Jimmy Graham Quotes

If you can get your team to that point of being able to be in that playoff race mindset every week, that's something that most teams can't do.

Each match I play is the most important one yet.

Obviously, you always want to win, but you want to win by skiing a race that you're proud of and you feel like you really challenged yourself and left it all out there.

I'm aware if I'm playing at my best I'm tough to beat. And I enjoy that.

If I'm not Top 10 or seeded every tournament, it really doesn't matter. I can beat anyone on a good day.

You must keep raising this game to higher and higher levels, as on the pool table - mastering eventually the psychological angles. Your playing is a pleasure, all the way to the end, to death, when the game is over.

I'm just super competitive. Squash, tennis, water skiing, computer games... Even if I played you at pool, I'd have to win.

We're not preparing to lose games.

All top players have an edge to them.

You can't win any games in the Spanish league by giving only seventy or eighty per cent. You always have to step on the gas.

On derby day it's not down to form, it's on the day, who's prepared for the game and who wants to battle.

I think it's normal to have competition once you get to the professional level.

I cannot see a situation when I won't feel pressure to play well and win.

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

If you win games, you think things are comfortable, and they are not. The best players don't think that way, and that's why they get to where they are: they don't worry about what has gone on and think only about the next game.

I love those words: killer instincts. Great teams, great players, they develop that, and it's not something that has to be said.

I approach every match with that mindset, that this guy is trying to beat you, and it will change his life if he does.

I just think I play better in the greater scenarios. I just get motivated. I like the big crowds on the centre courts.

Successful competitors want to win. Head cases want to win at all costs.

When I come into a tournament, I'm expecting to win. That's my philosophy. I can't go to a tournament thinking, 'I'm going to get my ass kicked today, so I might as well leave.'

Many books have been written about what the X-factor is, what separates people who win big matches versus those who struggle. Some of it's innate, but there's a piece of it that's learned, embracing those moments.

You need to have that edge, you need to have that confidence, you need to have that absolute belief that you're - you're the best and you'll win every time.

The fire that burns brightest in the Raiders organization is the will to win.

Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run away when you lose.

Winning is all in the attitude!