It doesn't even matter if I don't win a self-gold - after every meet, I have pizza. Pepperoni pizza.
People keep asking me if I feel pressure. But I don't feel pressure. I realize there's a lot on my plate, a lot of expectations for me to come in and win and do certain things. But I'm just playing the way I always have.
I'm just here to play basketball and have fun and try to win another championship.
On the Republican playing field, Republicans always win.
That's playoff basketball. Can you not get too happy after a win? Can you understand how determined the team is going to be after a loss and bring the energy you need to bring?
Every year you go in and you obviously want to win a World Series, at least make the playoffs.
You're coaching Kentucky - and you have a chance to change lives. That's not what this is up there in the NBA. You have assets. You're trying to piece a team together. You're trying to win more games than the other guy. You're trying to advance in the playoffs, and if you don't, they'll find somebody else that can.
It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.
You've just got to keep working hard, keep plugging along. That's how great teams win more trophies.
I expected to be a pretty good NBA point guard and hopefully win a championship. But MVP and all this stuff? Not really.
It used to be you a needed a true center to win championships, but now the point guard position holds just as much weight.
Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing.
The best poker game is seven-card stud, high-low splits. I mean, it's the best if you don't have to declare high or low, and can win it all with a low straight.
I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people.
We've heard a lot in recent polemic about how to win the fight for the corner office. But pushing up against a glass ceiling is practically a luxury when you consider the millions of women who can feel the floor dropping beneath their feet.
I was the guy that told Bill Clinton he was going to win. I had gotten the final polling numbers. He had a comfortable lead. He was not going to lose.
I'll put it like this: When I was in high school, I would never win a popularity contest back then... it was always somebody else that got picked first for whatever reason. But all those people that went before me usually dropped the ball... then I'd get my shot.
I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
I'm not out there to win a popularity contest. I'm out there to win basketball games.
Gore will not win a popularity contest, he will not win a personality contest, but he can win an idealogical battle, and he can win a battle of experience.
