Quotes About Competition

The Champions League is probably the biggest goal a footballer can have.

Playing with the boys made me a better footballer. It made me more competitive and made me want to win even more. You were playing against the boys and wanted to prove how good you were.

Every footballer wants to be in a starting position on the pitch.

It was always a dream as a footballer to compete in the best leagues in the world and those leagues are here in Europe.

This is what you dream about as a footballer: playing with the best and against the best in Europe.

It's why you become a footballer, so you can play against the best in the Champions League.

I understand football's changing and I'm evolving with it but stats are stats. You can run 15km if you like but I'm a footballer.

Footballers are super-intelligent and there is only one football language: to win, to win, to win.

There is a history of footballers in my family; my granddad played for Notts County and my dad played at county level.

We are footballers, not artists.

You have good footballers coming out of Africa, West Africa, but they are not on the level that Eto'o played.

As a player, you want to win every game. That's what footballers do: they want to play, and they want to win.

Just like footballers want to play at Wembley, the Nou Camp and the Bernabeu, boxers have their dream arenas too.

I want to win the Champions League, which is a dream for all footballers, for a second time.

I grew up with a lot of footballers.

We left, I think, a footprint in FIBA basketball. Proud of it.

I think it's quite difficult to follow in your parent's footsteps in the same sport.

Froch is like a train who just comes forward but Groves will move about, fake and feign and his good footwork is a big part of his game.

In training, for example, when you feel your position on the team is in danger then you have to be fully focused.

I don't think really we need to race in F1 just to risk your life, or to be in danger is nice for the people. I don't think it's really like that.

Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.

I will fight 'GGG,' and I will beat 'GGG,' but I will not be forced into the ring by artificial deadlines.

It's competition that forces companies to get out of their complacency.

I enjoy putting teams under pressure, forcing turn-overs and just being a pain really!