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Quotes About Competition

There is always a lot of pressure at Chelsea, but we are used to this and have to make sure we keep winning games.
~ Petr Cech
I played for Chelsea for three-and-a-half years and I gave them my best to win against them and show my quality again. I didn't have anything to prove to them. I wanted to show my new club that I deserve to wear this Manchester United shirt.
~ Nemanja Matic
It's Chelsea and you will always have competition for places here.
~ Ross Barkley
When I moved to Chelsea, it was a big, big challenge and experience for me at the time to play with so many good players.
~ Michael Ballack
I had a lot of emotional days at Chelsea, some that did not really end well, especially in the Champions League.
~ Michael Ballack
I think if you play for Chelsea you have to deal with the pressure, everybody knows the expectations.
~ Michael Ballack
When I was playing for Chelsea, it was always tough to beat Albion.
~ Nicolas Anelka
When you play against a team such as Arsenal, Manchester United or Chelsea, you never know what will happen. But the key to the season is to win the games that you expect to win.
~ Kolo Toure
When you play for a team like Chelsea you will have to fight for your place.
~ Nicolas Anelka
At Chelsea we are expected to win every game.
~ Oscar
Chelsea is a club which should be in the Champions League every season, which should finish in the top four every season, should be in the title race.
~ Demba Ba
I was at Chelsea for so long and grew up a fan and never played at Stamford Bridge in a competitive game.
~ Tino Livramento
To be playing in a Champions League final is something to cherish.
~ Jan Vertonghen
Man, jiu-jitsu is such a chess match.
~ Charles Oliveira
You fight technology with technology, so you have to stay one step ahead of the criminal. It's very much a chess game - they make a move, you have to make a move.
~ Frank Abagnale
Chess is life.
~ Bobby Fischer
I play a lot of chess. I probably played 200 games while we were making 'Andromeda.'
~ Ricky Schroder
Chess is a competition. Checkers is a competition. Mostly, I'm interested in doing real sports.
~ John Skipper
I think for me the main goal that I have, or at least what I really aspire to, is to raise the level of chess.
~ Hikaru Nakamura
A lot of people see a future where you could make a living as a chess player.
~ Hikaru Nakamura
It's very encouraging that the game of chess is growing in the U.S. and is becoming more popular.
~ Hikaru Nakamura
I grew up with a father who taught me chess at the age of 6 or 7. He'd always beat me. Of course. I was a kid of 6 or 7. After he won, he'd look at me and say, 'It's good to be king.' And then he'd say, 'But you know what's even better? To rule the world.'
~ Stephanie Corneliussen
You can't win the chess match if you don't have enough pieces.
~ Stephon Marbury
I grew up with 'Chess' and the music from the show.
~ Craig Revel Horwood