I think every footballer in the world wants to be on the pitch as much as possible.
It killed me being on the bench and watching my teammates play. I wanted to be out there helping them win. But that gave me more motivation.
You know, the one thing you never lose as a sportsman is your competitiveness.
I've been boxing for 25 years and I need exciting fights.
I won't quit skating until I am physically unable.
I used to have tears in my eyes on the way to practice because I was so focused. For me, track and field was serious business. I didn't have any friends. I was very isolated and very focused.
I just have that extra boost in games. I don't know why.
Once you win a National Championship, how do you do that again? How do you get the passion to do that again? We won it again right away, the next year. A lot of it had to do with the fact that I didn't give myself an opportunity to enjoy the first one.
I want it more. That's all it really is. Nobody wants to get hit every possession to get a rebound, and I want to.
I'm incredibly competitive in all sports in a way that is so mystifying to my wife because she grew up playing the violin and piano. I've always been like that.
I don't ever think about, 'Aw, man, my legacy. My legacy this.' No, I just want to fight the best fights out there to fight just to prove to the world that I'm the best fighter in the world.
Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was.
I just like to keep pushing myself and the sport.
I just see the ball and I go for it. It's wanting to make a winning play for the team and get a rebound.
As a competitor, as a guy that wants to play, of course, it would be great to go out and play.
I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.
Nagpur to Kanyakumari and Kashmir, future Olympic medallists can come from anywhere. It is the passion that drives you, not the city, provided you get enough facilities.
I didn't really get into the sport for fame. I didn't get into it to be this infamous guy that everybody worships. I got into this sport to make a difference.
I'm a competitor. No matter what I'm doing, whether I'm golfing, whether I'm playing indoor soccer with my fiancé - he's not going to get by me. I'm going to try to do whatever I can to win.
I'm a competitive person. I love the game of basketball. I'm a gym rat.
Being Number One isn't everything to me, but for those few hours on the court it's way ahead of whatever's in second place.
I have a lot of competitive juices, and I want to go out and compete on the football field every day.
I've never felt that I was less of an athlete or not accomplished athletically because I didn't win an Olympic medal. It's definitely something I would have liked to have added to my resume, but at the same time I think I can look back at my athletic career and feel that I was one of the best.
Fans and reporters, they don't get that ever since I was five, all I've done is competed against something. I always had a goal. Then, whenever you hit a point, there's a point in an athlete's life where it's like, 'Is it still worth it?'
I was an athlete, so I have kind of an athletic sensibility towards writing. I can work for many long hours without fatiguing.
