Quotes About Competition

I am not the kind of person who always hopes for the easiest opponent.

In football you need to look to make life difficult for the opponent.

I had a lot of rematches in the amateurs. You don't always know what an opponent's going to do. I do find that I beat them more easily second time around.

If I can hit a couple shots early, the opponent guards me in a different way.

As an opponent, the fiercest bouts were always against Zlatan Ibrahimovic, a fantastic player.

Knowing your opponent is fundamental. Because then you can know their characteristics better.

The only true opponent of PSG is PSG.

The most difficult opponent is Neymar.

Chicanito Hernandez certainly is not an opponent in my category.

A final is about winning. You can't wait for the opponent to be better than you, or let them start to play their football.

I've always controlled my emotions. I think that probably came from playing a lot of tennis, keeping it inside and not letting the opponent see what's going on with you. I think it gives them an advantage when you do that.

Shaking hands is meant as a sign of respect towards your opponent.

What's important to us is developing the habit of playing harder than our opponent every night.

I feel blessed that I have a tough opponent in Justin Lawrence.

Your greatest opponent always brings the best out of you.

The biggest meaning and the most important thing is not to give opportunities to give the opponent an idea about how we are going to play.

When I get the opportunity to get the ball, I've got to destroy my opponent.

When I would play in big games at Ohio State, if the Goodyear Blimp was there, you knew it was a big-time game against a big-time opponent.

I think Cormier is a great opponent. He's a guy who has competed at the highest level of athletics and I'm going to have to train really hard for him.

For me, it's all the time a big challenge to play against the best player of the opponent. I think only with this I can develop and grow for myself.

I'm getting better when I have a good opponent. And so I try to analyze my own game.

You need to go out to the game and just understand you need to beat your opponent. With all of the respect, because you need to have respect for your opponent, but you need to beat them. If you don't beat them, they will beat you.

The only thing that helps you play better is being ready to go against your next opponent.

This is show business. I know that winning is super important and a gameplan is super important, but at some point you have to, this is the hurt business and you gotta to try to put your opponent out.