Toni Kroos Quotes

Every time I step out on court, I leave 150 per cent out there. That's the bare minimum.

Each match I play is the most important one yet.

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

I've always played with a high intensity anyway. That's how I've always been.

My mentality is that I play football to win. You have to do everything you can to win. The most important thing is that you leave nothing out there on the pitch.

Whatever it is that you do, dial it up to a 10 because for me people won't necessarily think I am the best wrestler in the world, but I can do what others can't.

I take every match as a final. It's very important.

I always give 100% in every game I play, even if it's not enough.

You have to give 110% all the time. 100% isn't good enough anymore.

The No. 1 thing is you want to be able to win the game, and we're going to do whatever we have to do to win the game.

You always want to feel better but I'm good. My thing is once you get to the playoffs, you do whatever it takes. You've got to lay it on the line.

You have to go into each match believing you can beat all of the players.

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.

Well, it's still another two-day competition, so it's really important to show that you're ready. Every meet is really important right now. You've got to keep showing you can hit.

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

No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.

In playing or managing, the game of ball is only fun for me when I'm out in front and winning. I don't give a hill of beans for the rest of the game.

At the end of my career, am I going to say I did well, but I didn't give it my all? I'd be very, very angry with myself if I didn't give 100 percent. If I gave my all and I got to whatever point in the world, I could look back and at least I say I did the best I could.

The best way I knew how was to give 110% and want it more than them, and walk on the court and every moment of the match feel like it was the end of the world, in a sense. So that worked for me in a lot of ways. There were times that it hurt me, but for the most part, it helped me.

Each game we play, every game is a championship-game mindset.

If you're scared to lose rather than excited to win, then that's the wrong way to approach a race.

People sometimes have a false view of track and field, that it's kind of soft and kind of friendly. And guys aren't necessarily laughing and joking, but everyone's just friendly and 'ha ha, he he.' I just came in and just was like, 'Nah, I don't know what y'all talking about, but every single time I step on the line, I'm trying to win.'

All top players have an edge to them.

I've been in opening matches of pay-per-views. I've been in main events of pay-per-views, and the same mentality is applied to both, and that is, 'To this point, this is the biggest match of my life, and I'm gonna go out there and give it everything I have.'

Every game I play, I play to the best of my ability and play like it's my last.