Quotes About Competition

You break down the tape of the top five backs, all those guys can catch the ball out the backfield. They're special with the ball in hand. Something I strive to be.

If you ask somebody who played basketball against me in the first grade and you watch a tape, it's been with me since I was a kid. I've always had this mentality to go out there and defend.

At about 17, I decided I wanted to take kiteboarding seriously and compete, so my agents were like, 'Just keep sending in a few audition tapes anyway, just for good stuff.'

I used to trapshoot. I was actually a junior national champion. My parents are trapshooters, so I'm more into target stuff.

I know I've probably got a massive target on my back now, because everyone wants to be better, to beat me.

We are Bayern. We have the highest standards, and always want to win everything, so the Champions League is a very big target.

I know my game is about trying to get past players and I know that if a bad tackle is coming my way, I have to jump or push my body out in front, but this is football. If they try to foul and target me, then I'm doing something good.

I want the target on my back. I want everybody to come after me. That's been my goal since I started fighting.

One of the more bizarre games I played as a kid was something called 'kill the man.' It was a cross between football and rugby, which found the person carrying the ball a target of some hungry tacklers. I still don't know why we enjoyed the game because it was impossible to win.

In this crazy, crazy world of figure skating, it is easy to focus on a name or a target. But when you are going after someone, it really only holds you back from what you are capable of yourself.

Being at NDSU and winning national championships, everyone's gunning for you. You got a big target on your back, and we had to be ready to go week in and week out. I think playing for a program like that, everyone's going to give you their best shot, and we embrace that.

Playing for a Champions League place is not enough. It is not my target, but it is a target we have to take.

When you become the champion, you become a target.

My target is to score in every match here at the 2012 Olympics. I am hoping to land on target with my penalty corner shots at crucial moments.

It would have been naive to believe that it's an easy job to become the undisputed No. 1 at Barcelona, but that's my target, and it's something I will tackle with all my ambition.

I got a huge target on my back. But you know what, I'm going to embrace that, and everybody is on notice - flyweights and bantamweights.

For sure, I definitely feel like there's a target on my back.

The Champions League has always been a target of mine. I do want to play at the top.

The Premier League is my main target.

If you play for Liverpool, for such a big club, it is always the target: it has to be always to win silverware.

I never had to worry about putting a target on somebody else's back. Usually, the target was on my back.

I always win. I think, one season with Lazio, we didn't win anything, but our premier target was to take the Champions League place, and we got into the Champions League.

I want to test myself, playing with the best and against the best. I can do that at international level, so that's my target and what I want to reach.

The target is to win football matches.