Top 100 I Play To Win Quotes
#1. I am a sore loser. I've always been like that ever s'nce I started playin' sports and just life in general. I hate to lose and I play to win.
Snoop Dogg
#2. I'm a winner, I play to win, I want to make good things go on around me.
David Ortiz
#3. I play for me and I play to win, but it gives me great pleasure to represent Mexico.
Lorena Ochoa
#4. It annoys me a little when people try to be positive when I don't play my best. I play to win. I'm like that. I'm like any other player. I'm never happy.
Camilo Villegas
#5. I play to win, whether during practice or a real game.
Michael Jordan
#6. I play to win and if it looks like I've lost, its only because its not over yet.
Kiera Dellacroix
#7. You fight dirty," she murmured, taking the tin from him.
"I play to win.
Katie Reus
#9. I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
Bobby Fischer
#10. I want to consistently play well and win titles. I'm only at the beginning.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#11. 1960, I was 20 years old, and I was leading the U.S. Open. Now, I wasn't leading by several strokes, but I was leading the U.S. Open and playing with Ben Hogan, had a very good chance to win, nine holes to go, I was leading. I was still leading with six holes to play.
Jack Nicklaus
#12. All I can do is go out there and play hard and try and help my team win, and that's what I'm going to keep doing.
Brian Urlacher
#13. By some special graciousness of fate I am deposited - as all good photographers like to be - in the right place at the right time. Go into it as young as possible. Bring all the asset you have and play to win.
Margaret Bourke-White
#14. My opinion about basketball, the way I was taught, was when you step on the court, you play to win.
Larry Bird
#16. I play every game to win, it is not in my nature to throw a game.
Heyneke Meyer
#17. I'm ready to lose my life if that's what Portugal needs to win. I'll play vs USA even if I play with one leg.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#18. I havent won on my birthday since college, so its good to play hard and get a win by double figures.
Chris Bosh
#19. Everyone in my life thinks I'm competitive because I want to win, but it comes from me wanting everyone to have a good time. And when I see that people aren't enthused, I try to make it really uncomfortable for everyone so they get enthused and want to play hard.
Christina Applegate
#20. To be honest, the play that was drawn up, I scratched it. I just told coach, 'Give me the ball.' We're either going to go to overtime or I'm going to win it for us. It was that simple.
LeBron James
#21. I am nervous about this game. The Cowboys' best player, quarterback Tony Romo, is not going to play because he has a broken finger. The Cowboys ought to be able to win without Tony Romo because the St. Louis Rams are terrible, but I am still nervous.
Craig Lancaster
#22. On the field I'm trying to play for the glory of God but then also I'm trying to give everything I have and win and compete. And so I think more than just winning or losing, I think He cares about where our hearts are when we're playing.
Tim Tebow
#23. When I come off the bench, I'm looking to add energy, and then I play defense and rebound. Also, at the end of the game, I have the experience to go out there and help us win.
Sue Wicks
#24. This is a business and everything happens for a reason. I'm going to just to play hard, try to play hard and do whatever it takes to win.
James Harden
#25. I want to know everything there is to know about Lewis and Clark. And I want to do the Sunday crossword in less than an hour. I want to be the best dad in the world. I want to play Richard II, and I want to win another Tony award.
Robert Sean Leonard
#26. I feel like I just returned a 100-yard kickoff in the last two minutes of the Super Bowl to win it all, only to have my run called back by a flag on the play.
Kobe Bryant
#27. I'm going to go out and play really hard. If I have another win, it will be icing on the cake. But I don't take anything for granted.
Vijay Singh
#28. Money isn't something I play for. I want to compete. I want to win.
Dirk Nowitzki
#29. I don't think you can really expect to win a hockey game giving up three power-play goals. In reality, you cant give up those and that's the difference in the hockey game.
Randy Carlyle
#30. It is never easy to win but it is a lot easier to win when you play well. The key is winning golf tournaments when you are not playing so well. Managing your game is something that I feel that I am still learning to do.
Rory McIlroy
#31. I prefer to play and lose rather than win, because I know in advance I'm going to win.
Eric Cantona
#32. Some people play a horse to win, some to place. I should have bet this horse to live.
Henny Youngman
#33. You're not going to win by automatically going out there. It's hard to know what people really expect of you, and I've never tried to live up to expectations anyway. That's no way to play baseball.
Greg Maddux
#34. I think of life as very much like a game. The one who created it gave us the rules by which it is to be played, rules designed to help us win, rules to help us be happy. The problem is many times we choose to play by our own rules, and then we're at a loss to understand why we never win.
Julie Lessman
#35. It doesn't matter if I ever win another award or get to play another major jazz festival in America. I would rather not garner any of those things and speak honestly about the things that I see my people endure in this country and all over the world.
Christian Scott
#36. I'm with Houston now. I just have to come in here and play hard and win games.
James Harden
#37. I would rather try a shot to win than play safe and finish second.
Phil Mickelson
#38. I think that with piracy and tighter funds being around, people are realising that the game to play is to try and win people's respect with bold film making and then win a special place in people's collections, rather than just having the biggest opening weekends.
Riz Ahmed
#39. I do genuinely believe that young people who play sport at a competitive level, sensibly controlled, sensibly organised, that has to be a good thing. It will teach them to win, it will teach them to lose with dignity and magnanimity - all the things you want. It's a pretty good metaphor for life.
Sebastian Coe
#40. Sport for me is about inspiring kids. Here's the rules, here's the play area, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. This is all about teaching kids how to approach life. If we're not playing sport to benefit kids, I'm not really sure why we play sport.
Russell Crowe
#41. I want to play for a championship team. I want to win a championship.
Richard Jefferson
#42. Why do you think the lottery is so popular? Do you think anybody would play if the super payoff was a job on the night shift in a meat-packing plant? People play it so if they win they can be rich and idle. Like I told you years ago - if work is so good, how come they have to pay us to do it?
Mike Royko
#43. I don't play to prove people right or wrong. I just want to win.
Mark Teixeira
#44. I look at it this way. I'm not putting age limits on what I can do. As long as I can do the job to help the team win and feel like I'm playing at a high level, which I feel I can do for a long while, I'm going to play no matter what my age is.
Dan Marino
#45. I'm a chemistry guy. I believe you've got to play together to have a chance to win.
Tony Gwynn
#46. The Russians have held my title for ten years and they're going to be in for it when I win the Championship. They're going to have to wait and play under my conditions.
Bobby Fischer
#47. In order to win, you must play your best golf when you need it most, and play your sloppy stuff when you can afford it. I shall not attempt to explain how you achieve this happy timing.
Bobby Jones
#48. I go out and play not for the numbers, but for a chance to win and the thrill of playing in front of a packed crowd.
Johnny Damon
#49. I'm over it. You strive to win a Super Bowl and you do everything you can to get there. But being in the Hall of Fame, you never play for that honor. It's incredible.
Dan Fouts
#50. I'm not coming in to teach and play the big veteran guy. I'm coming in to win games.
Cliff Floyd
#51. People appreciating my performance is good enough for me. I don't care much for awards and have never given it much thought. And anyway, I can't play the games people play to win awards.
Manisha Koirala
#52. I feel much more respected in Europe than I do in the States from the press and from the people. Americans expect me to win every match I play.
Pete Sampras
#53. The motivation for me is just the game itself, just playing the game the right way and trying to win, compete every time I step out there on the floor. That's motivation enough for me to go out there and play well.
Kobe Bryant
#54. I love the game - and I hate the Russians because they've almost ruined it. They only risk the title when they have to, every three years. They play for draws with each other but play to win against the Western masters. Draws make for dull chess, wins make for fighting chess.
Bobby Fischer
#55. When I was 13 my dream was to play the U.S. Open. Now it's to win it.
Yani Tseng
#56. I enjoy playing for the Arizona Cardinals, and I want to continue to play here and try to win.
Larry Fitzgerald
#57. Anytime you've got an opportunity to play for your country and win a gold medal, I think that takes it all. That's the greatest thing you could ever achieve in your sport. So, I have been very fortunate to play on great teams, but the gold medal was probably the best.
Larry Bird
#58. I don't want to play; I want to win. But if you give me the rules, I'll take it from there.
Veronica Rossi
#59. If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose.
Derek Jeter
#60. Look, girls. It is important to all of us that we win this game, right? Well, when it comes to athletics, boys are simply better suited than girls. It's a fact of nature that no one can change. I'm sorry, but maybe you can play next time when it's less crucial.
Francine Pascal
#61. Ive been taught very early on that if you want to win a tournament youve got to beat anybody, and hopefully I play well and enjoy it.
Steffi Graf
#62. I used to think it would be neat to play my whole career with one team. But as a baseball player you want to come to the ballpark every day knowing you have a chance to win and that the games mean something.
Carlos Beltran
#63. I think I can play in the big leagues 10 or 15 years. But more important to me is winning-win, make the playoffs.
Carlos Beltran
#64. Do you want to know my mindset? I play whether I win or lose if I believe in the play. All in! You've to kill me. I won't tap out lol
Assegid Habtewold
#65. Just like I tell the boys, we don't play for one single run, we play to win the whole game. And I'm in it to win it.
Mariana Zapata
#66. As long as I feel like I can win majors and contend, I'll continue to play.
Pete Sampras
#67. I don't play the sport for fame. I don't try to win tournaments for fame. I don't do any of that. It's just me. I'm just Bubba. I goof around. I joke around. I just want to be me and play golf.
Bubba Watson
#68. In my room as a kid ... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.
Dustin Hoffman
#69. I hoping to make it [decision] sometime next week. I love the academics at Tech. I can get a great degree there in engineering. Georgia has the ability to win it all next season. I think I can play early at both schools. It's going to be tough.
Calvin Johnson
#70. I tell my boys not to play rough with their younger sister. I try to teach them what I know already: You're never going to win an argument with a girl, so just let her have what she wants!
Steve Harvey
#71. Grantland Rice, the great sportswriter once said, 'It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.' Well Grantland Rice can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.
Gene Autry
#72. We can't win at home. We can't win on the road. As general manager, I just can't figure out where else to play.
Pat Williams
#73. I want to bring that childlike approach every night - just go out there and have fun. I want to play like a kid, for fun but with intensity. Play to win.
Chris Bosh
#74. I want to know what it's like to play in a Super Bowl and win one. My career will be great without it. But, personally, selfishly, I want to know what it feels like.
Dan Marino
#75. I learned it doesn't matter how you win. You play to your team's strength.
Tony Dungy
#76. If you play to win as I do, the game never ends.
Stan Mikita
#77. I didn't get into music to win awards. I love to play and the older I get the more I love it. And I love new things.
Sam Bush
#78. I loved to play, I was competitive, I wanted to win, that was all I knew. In the first few years tennis is a game. Later, it becomes a job,
Gabriela Sabatini
#79. I just play to win. I play to be competitive; that's it. I think every player hopes that they do something special that everyone remembers later in life, or whatever. But that's not why we're playing. At least, that's not why I play.
Cliff Lee
#80. That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.
Warren Moon
#81. I'm definitely interested in taking on roles where I don't look like myself. But I'm not saying I'm going to go out of my way to play a disabled person in order to win an Oscar.
Douglas Booth
#82. I think polo players are at their best in their 30s. You've got the talent and the experience. You play with your head - you learn to lose and how to win.
Facundo Pieres
#83. I never play, because I am not rich enough to afford to lose or poor enough to want to win.
Maximilien Morrel, The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
#84. You learn to understand it, but if you step back, you do think it is either strange or unfair. But I know that if you don't score, play well or win, you are wrong to have a helicopter and fly home each week to see your kids. You are wrong to have a business outside of football.
Michael Owen
#85. I don't just want to play in the playoffs. I want to win the World Series.
Robinson Cano
#86. I obviously want to win a grand slam, but whatever I do, however long I play, I hope I sustain a really long career, a healthy one, just a pretty consistent career. I obviously want to win a grand slam.
Sloane Stephens
#87. If you call a hundred dollars but have a chance to win $10,000, those are excellent odds if you are at a table with people who have two aces or two kings. If you catch a flop you will get all their chips. I just play them because there is value.
Daniel Negreanu
#88. I was definitely out of control, but I loved the game of basketball and I played to win and I didn't understand anything less than that. That's why I have a hard time with the young men who can't play because they went to the dentist this afternoon.
Mel Daniels
#89. I've always played hard. If that's rough and tough, I can't help it. I don't believe there's any such thing as a good loser. I wouldn't sit down and play a game of cards with you right now withing wanting to win. If I hadn't felt that way I wouldn't have got very far in baseball.
Rogers Hornsby
#90. I just try to make sure that when I get there on the floor, I play as hard as I can and try to do everything I can to help the team win.
Jeremy Lin
#91. And like I said, I appreciate my older brothers because they would not allow me to win. They made me learn to play with them, which I think is the most important thing that I learned.
Eddie Murray
#92. I didn't come to play. I came to win.
Kamahl
#93. I want to win a Grammy. I want to be on the cover of Rolling Stone. I want to be a musical guest on 'Saturday Night Live.' And I want to play arenas and have tons of people watching me.
Cheyenne Kimball
#94. Some clubs want to win so much they'll do anything to get it. Our approach has been just the opposite. We've tried to do things the right way. And the right way is [abiding by] the rules and regulations ... I may not like all of them, but once they are [official], we play by them.
Don Shula
#95. That's what music is to me. Like, stuff that I really like to play loud. And I've got my quiet CDs, too, that I listen to around the house, but if you can't go there, then ... Everyone gets so upset with me, I can't win.
Liz Phair
#96. I don't play to lose, only to win or learn. Mostly learn.
Mark Rude
#97. We live in a reward-centered society. When I was a child, my father used to say, "It's not whether you win or lose but how well you play the game." I used to think that was about sports, but as an adult, I realize what I create, do, etc., is more important than winning a prize.
Renee Lawless
#98. Now, when you play this game, even though you've never played it with me before, you're playing to get even - not with me but with what I represent to you, all those terrible people who cheated you out of your right to win. Then
Bernard De Koven
#99. I do not want players who do not have a keen desire to win and do not play hard and aggressively to accomplish that objective.
John Wooden
#100. Sure, I like to win when I play basketball or board games or video games, but my day isn't ruined if I lose. I'm always up for a rematch. In all seriousness, that's something that's nice about maturing.
Aaron Staton
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