Match Winning Quotes

#1. I want to do the best I can right away. There's no point for me to just kind of be relaxed about it. Of course, in each match winning is out of my control, but I want to try to do the best I can as soon as I can, and I want to have 10 successful years and not five slow ones and then five good ones.

Eugenie Bouchard

#2. 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

#3. In my very first Wrestlemania match, I won. 17 wins from tying the Undertaker. Don't laugh.

The Miz

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. Nothing is more thrilling than winning a match for your team.

Virender Sehwag

#7. Don't tell those coming in the final result of that fantastic match, but let's just have another look at Italy's winning goalo.

David Coleman

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

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

Xabi Alonso

#12. 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

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

Johnny Giles

#14. If I'm winning, I have to act like I'm not bored. If it's A tough match, I have to act like I'm having A good time. I'm a drama queen.

Serena Williams

#15. From one match to the next, I kept on winning.

Tracy Austin

#16. 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

#17. Neither winning nor losing means as much to me as knowing the crowd has enjoyed my match. Some players feel that winning is everything and that losing is a disaster. Not me. I want the spectators to take home a good memory ...

Evonne Goolagong Cawley

#18. 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

#19. I'm sure Bobby won't want them to be losing the match before winning it.

Ron Atkinson

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. I'm really looking forward to getting back and winning some matches but I'm not thinking about the U.S. Open yet, just getting through my first match.

Greg Rusedski

#24. To me, the team is more important than any individual member of the squad, and the players have to realise that and accept that my priority is to pick a side with the best possible chance of winning each match.

Gerard Houllier

#25. 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

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

Andy Roddick

#27. 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

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

Bobby Robson

#29. 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

#30. I feel like when I'm match tough and match hard and played a lot of matches I got that competitive winning spirit going and I can get on some rolls like I did last year. I won San Jose, Indian Wells and made the semifinals in Miami so it can happen for me.

Lleyton Hewitt

#31. 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

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

Rafael Nadal

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

Jimmy Hill

#34. It was a match I lost, rather than she won [on Serena Williams winning with an apparent cramp injury at Wimbledon

Daniela Hantuchova

#35. 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

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

Kevin Keegan

#37. The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.

Agnes De Mille

#38. 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

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

Cristiano Ronaldo

#40. My definition of winning at squash is playing and surviving, and I've never lost a match.

Arlen Specter

#41. 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

#42. 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