Quotes About Competition

I agree with Arsene Wenger that finishing in the top four is the equivalent of winning a trophy - even if you don't get to parade silverware.

The Champions League is one trophy that I need to win.

We want to compete for every trophy at home and in Europe.

I tell our team all the time, nobody once in the history of this great game - nor will they ever, I hope - has stood at a championship stage or podium holding a championship trophy and say, 'We out-finessed everybody.'

It's always going to be hard when you see the other team lifting a trophy. When you have to walk up those stairs and collect the runners-up medal, it's hard.

If you win the Carling Cup, it can give you confidence, and sometimes, when you haven't won a trophy, you become scared of winning.

The Champions League enjoys a special status. It's the most attractive trophy you can win.

It is about winning a trophy. It doesn't make any difference to me who lifts it; I would just rather win.

When you play for Mumbai in the Ranji Trophy, you face the same bowler next year. But when you play in IPL, you face bowlers of different calibre.

Whatever games came my way, I tried to give my best, do whatever I could to win matches for the team, be it at the Ranji Trophy level, India A, IPL: this was always on my mind.

Games don't come much bigger than playing the title holders with the chance to win the trophy yourselves.

Once everyone gets a taste of one trophy, it could set off an effect. People will get the hunger, and just want more and more.

Lifting a major trophy in front of an empty stadium would be a very strange feeling. But then you'd rather do that than not play at all.

I never won a Vezina Trophy until I won the Olympic gold medal.

I go out there because I love tennis and I love playing. To hold the trophy in the end, you know, it's amazing.

Every team goes into every season aspiring for every trophy.

It meant so much to me lifting the Alex Higgins Trophy at Goffs.

There is a magical feeling when the Champions League music sounds at the beginning of each game, it is the biggest club competition and is the trophy that every player wants to have.

You can't take a person who's never danced in their lives, and are completely terrible, and turn them into the mirrorball trophy holder. That just doesn't happen.

When you've been around a team that has been in the hunt for a Super Bowl and you've been in a locker room that's held up the Vince Lombardi Trophy and you've had that experience, you've had that feeling, nothing comes close.

No cares about the Muhammad Ali trophy.

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

I don't care what you have done before or what you are capable of: if you come up against a guy like me, you are in trouble.

Nobody despises to lose more than I do. That's got me into trouble over the years, but it also made a man of mediocre ability into a pretty good coach.