The mentality is always to win.
I am proud of being a bad loser. Bad losers are winners. That is the way it should be.
For me, all I want to do is win. Whether I make a hundred tackles or one tackle, all I want to do is win and for the defense to perform well.
Every time I'm on the court, I think I'm the best player. That's the mind-set a lot of players should have.
I love sports, and I'm a hugely competitive person.
I can honestly say that every time I go on court, I see the opponent in a competitive way, but not a rival.
We talk in coaching about "winners" - kids, and I've had a lot of them, who just will not allow themselves or their team to lose. Coaches call that a will to win. I don't. I think that puts the emphasis in the wrong place. Everybody has a will to win. What's far more important is having the will to prepare to win.
Sports are sports. Its all about how we carry ourselves out of the ring.
I think Chelsea is Chelsea. No matter the players we have, we have to fight until the end in every competition.
I think what we've tried to preach to our players is we're going to let the best players play.
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.
I'm a Tom Brady guy to the fullest. I love the way he manages the game, his mindset. He always works with less. He doesn't always have the best receivers, but he's going to make it work.
Failure inspires winners. And failure defeats losers. It is the biggest secret of winners. It's the secret that loser do not know. The greatest secret of winners is that failure inspires winning; thus, they're not afraid of losing.
If it's a card game, or it's a preseason game, or it's a regular season game, I just go out there to try to win. For me, that's all I know how to do it and I'll never change that.
It's life, it's hockey. You just can't worry about it.
I'm going to do my best to help the team play hard and help the team win... I'm just coming to play baseball.
If you can hang in games by staying close defensively, then good things can happen.
I just want to win. I'm a team guy. I just want my team to do well.
I feel like you can dominate a game in so many ways. That's just always been my mindset, just play ball. Be a basketball player, and everything will fall into place.
Championship teams are built on being prepared, playing unselfishly and being held accountable, and that's how I expect to coach this basketball team. I am truly excited about this next phase of my basketball career.
It was always about being first, about winning. There were no prizes for second place. My mother and father said, 'Do whatever you want, as long as you're the best at it.'
I'm just trying to affect the game in some way whenever I get an opportunity. If that's stealing a base, making a catch, beating out a double play, whatever it may be.
Football has never left me. I still wake up in the morning and think of the operating room like a game, like it's showtime, let's perform.
When it comes down to the last five minutes, it's not about Xs and Os. It's pretty much who wants it more.
But - there's no point in aiming to be Number Two. You've got to have a plan-to-win attitude.
