Match Win Quotes

#1. You cannot turn your winning attitude on when you think you 'need it.' You must work on it every day, every practice, every match - win or lose. Focus on playing to win, not playing to lose, for there is a season of difference between the two.

John Kessel

#2. We will have to go to win. There's no other option. We have one more match.

Xabi Alonso

#3. I meet people who say, "Girl, I watch every match, and I pray for you." I feel that energy and those prayers. Sometimes when I'm down on the court, in the back of my mind, I'm thinking, "They want me to win. Is there anything else I can give?" It encourages me to do better, to fight harder.

Serena Williams

#4. Every team in the NFL is hard, but when we play our own division it's a fight. Our goal is to make it to the playoffs and to do that we have to win games within the division. We match up well against this division, it's just a matter of getting on the field and doing what we know we can do.

Giovani Bernard

#5. I really want to do well at this upcoming match! I'm going to try really really hard! Because it may be my dad's first memory of a match. I really want to win.

Kim Su-mi

#6. If England are going to win this match, they're going to have to score a goal.

Jimmy Hill

#7. The coach should keep out of the way ... He is an important figure, of course, but is more likely to lose a match than win it. Matches are won by players.

Romario

#8. Sometimes emotions can win fights. Sometimes letting your feelings out in a fight can win you the fight. When it means the world to you, it's not just a sports contest - a boxing match for money or belts.

Tyson Fury

#9. I lost the match. I blame only myself for this. There were many opportunities to win. But I missed them, no one else.

Anatoly Karpov

#10. When I finished the juniors I felt, perhaps for about a year and a half, that everything was going to be the same and that I would be able to go out there and win any match. But it wasn't the case. I struggled.

Amelie Mauresmo

#11. It's always great to play at home. I won here last year and it's great to start with a win like this today. The first match was difficult and I thought it was step in the right direction.

Gustavo Kuerten

#12. My coach has said to me, "When you win a match or a tournament, you don't even think about it - the very next minute you're like".

Serena Williams

#13. It's always good to win a Test match and if you win it comfortably, it can leave a few psychological marks on opposition sides.

Ricky Ponting

#14. I would rather die in America than live in England. I would rather lose a match in America than win one in England. I have come to the conclusion that I neither mean to die soon or to lose the match!

Wilhelm Steinitz

#15. It's a song that we sing after we win a Test match. We sing it after every one-day series win. It's been passed down through the generations. It's the culture of the Australian team.

Ricky Ponting

#16. The match has become quite unpredictable, but it still looks as though Arsenal will win the cup.

John Motson

#17. It wasn't my plan to create such a record. All I did was put in the effort to win every match I played and it went on for weeks, months and years until my defeat to Ross Norman in Toulouse in 1986.

Jahangir Khan

#18. I think it is important to win a match, but I think what is even more important is the manner in which you win.

Jock Stein

#19. There's only one plan in football: win you next match.

Johnny Giles

#20. The kind of match where your opponent wanted you to win while you wished for nothing other than to die at his hands.

H.J. Brues

#21. Everyone loves a win in India. No one wants to lose a match. It is the cricketer who absorbs all the pressure.

Virat Kohli

#22. I do feel that I have unfinished business in the Premier League and now is the right time to return. I considered all the other offers very carefully and I firmly believe that Chelsea is the best choice. They match my footballing ambitions with their hunger and desire to win trophies.

Cesc Fabregas

#23. Whether it's a friendly match, or for points, or a final, or any game - I play the same. I'm always trying to be my best, first for my team, for myself, for the fans, and to try and win.

Lionel Messi

#24. The only pressure I feel is how I can contribute to help my team win the match. Of course, there is always the pressure to score, but then doesn't it eventually help your team win? Frankly, I don't let these things affect me.

Rohit Sharma

#25. I'm tired of this 'we better lay low, or someone will figure out we're different' crap. I mean, it's not like if I win a match people are going to say, who's that kid, he's a really good wrestler, he must be an angel.

Cynthia Hand

#26. We are positive about our win and we know that our match was perhaps not as physical as the other matches on the weekend, so I think we have an advantage in that we have an extra day to recover.

Naka Drotske

#27. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a match. The two kids both have hand-me-down names of the ill repute." Jesse turned to me. "But actually, I win. You're named after a madam. I'm named after a murderer. So mine's worse.

Ruta Sepetys

#28. When I won Wimbledon, I said to God: just let me win this one tournament and I won't play another match. Maybe God's telling me to go home, but I don't want to go home. We are negotiating at the moment.

Goran Ivanisevic

#29. I've known the thrill of winning a tough ball game and of winning a golf match on the last hole. But to me the biggest thrill is to win the big one - the spiritual battle of life.

Billy Graham

#30. I turn to someone, I'm not sure, to God I think, but I never ask for anything. I would never pray to win a title; it makes no sense. I've never understood those who pray before a match. I simply give thanks for what I have received.

Mario Balotelli

#31. I don't care now if I ever win a match in my life again. Whatever I do in my life, wherever I go, I'm going to be always Wimbledon champion.

Goran Ivanisevic

#32. Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

Muhammad Ali

#33. Get some sleep, pup,' the Chihuahua told him. 'After your first match, you already grabbed the attention of the fans. Tomorrow you must win their hearts.

Devon Hughes

#34. Whether you win a match or lose a match, in terms of your emotions, it's important to be pretty levelheaded.

Maria Sharapova

#35. It's hard because you want to be able to just, okay, focus your energy on trying to win the match, but you need to then have tactics as to how you're going to deal with how you're feeling.

Andy Murray

#36. It seems with every match I win, I get better-looking to other people.

Andy Roddick

#37. I think that that Davis Cup final made me much stronger mentally. And this preseason, I was working really hard. So today, I was really believing in myself that I can win the match anyway, that I'm going to five sets. That's so important, no, believe in yourself.

Fernando Verdasco

#38. If you don't score you are not going to win a match.

Bobby Robson

#39. You're in a fight to the death. This isn't a
boxing match. You can't win by scoring the most points.

Jeaniene Frost

#40. Life is a series of pulls back and forth ... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match ... Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins

Mitch Albom

#41. Sometimes you can really serve well and win the match because of the serve. I have the opposite thing now, so it's kind of hard. I can just really play with my forehand and backhand.

Agnieszka Radwanska

#42. I'm shadowboxing in a match the shadow is always going to win. (as a young man battling his deceased brother's heroic legacy)

John F. Kennedy

#43. Americans like a winner. If you lose, you're nothing. I'm going to win, though. It's good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We've met five times. He's won three times
and we've drawn twice. But I'm a stronger player and a long match favors me.

Bobby Fischer

#44. Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.

Venus Williams

#45. So basically it's very simple: to start with, if you want to win the match, you shouldn't be afraid of him. There are still many, many things to do, but above all this is the most important: Don't be scared of him!

Vladimir Kramnik

#46. I will do whatever it takes to win a football match.

Stuart Pearce

#47. Experience tells us that few matches are won on the back of one or two good sessions of play. To win a Test match most teams have to win and outplay the opposition for extended periods of time.

Justin Langer

#48. Match play really exposes your character and how much of a will to win you have in your heart.

Johnny Miller

#49. After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.

Saina Nehwal

#50. Yes, yes, I'm very happy that I finally got through this match, beat No. 7 in the world. It's my best win so far. So I'm really happy the way I play today and felt really strong on the court physically, mentally.

Daniela Hantuchova

#51. 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

#52. I just try to win the match by fighting for every point, and running down every ball.

Rafael Nadal

#53. It becomes tricky, and you start to think about the cramps rather than just actually what you're trying to do on the court, which is obviously win the match.

Andy Murray

#54. The match against Brazil was football at its best. Both sides had opportunities to win the game.

Michel Patini

#55. The game has gone rather scrappy as both sides realise they could win this
match or lose it.

Kevin Keegan

#56. Acting is like a sporting match; a tennis game, but no one should win or lose. The game's the thing!

Jon Polito

#57. Buying a particular vintage because everyone tips it and then waiting for it to mature is like gambling. The thrill is in placing the bet. Once the race is run or the match is played, you'll either win or lose. Until that happens, you're caught in this wonderful, agonising sense of expectation.

Kenneth Cranham

#58. Did you win? he asks.
It wasn't a match, I say. It was a lesson.

Claudia Rankine

#59. You have to understand, in this fight, the physical condition and technical preparation are not as important as character and will. The one who's willing to go until the end will win the match.

Ruslan Provodnikov

#60. Occasionally, you feel like the only person able to win the match. So you take all the responsibility, you do too much, and you do something bad.

Mario Balotelli

#61. I know If I score we're going to win the match.

Cristiano Ronaldo