Quotes About Competition

If you're playing against an aggressive side, you need to play an aggressive game.

I was on the sideline with a knee injury and when I came back, I wanted to play at the best level I could. And that's the case for a lot of players, they want the chance to play against the best competition.

I just know when I'm on the sideline, I can't expect somebody to push me out of bounds.

You can't sideline players who can take a good helping for themselves in the Power Plays.

It doesn't matter how I'm asked to play, or if the football is good or bad: I like football when I'm on the pitch, not when I'm on the sidelines.

You don't have a real rivalry unless both sides are great teams.

In England and Germany, perhaps, there is more of a focus on the physical side of the game, in breaking down the opposition's play, especially against the lower placed sides.

Both sides of the game, defensively and offensively, are important.

The owners of the Premier League sides are like in the NBA, they're not millionaires, they're billionaires.

I think 'A' sides are extremely important, as close as you can get to international cricket. You are often playing against internationals from different countries and it definitely bridges the gap between our domestic game and international cricket.

We do not want to be giving quality sides such as Southampton, Palace, Norwich and the rest eight or nine points start and expect to get back up with them.

The match against Brazil was football at its best. Both sides had opportunities to win the game.

Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.

And if I want to get involved in choosing sides, I usually pick hockey or football.

I'm such a failed politician that all of my rivals have disappeared, on both sides.

I think it's very, very tough to compare postseason and in-season, just for the simple fact that there's the heightened levels of energy on both sides of the ball.

When you play constantly for strong sides, then the pressure is always on you.

In one-day cricket, we should not think that we can win easily against any team. There have been examples when big teams have lost to small sides.

We need to come out and assert ourselves on both sides of the court.

When you play the top sides you cannot afford to be as open as 4-4-2 can leave you. Consequently teams adapt their formation.

We had a court in our backyard, and I would mess around with the players on my dad's team. I hit with two hands on both sides, which I didn't stop doing until I was about 8.

We look at MMA and working pro wrestling as one and the same, they're just two different sides of the coin.

When scandals proliferate, human beings become so obsessed with their rivals that they lose sight of the objects for which they compete and begin to focus angrily on one another.

It all depends on the athlete. It all depends on if the bigger guys come out, and they become a Shaquille O'Neal, or if they become a Porzingis...You don't ever lose sight of those type of players, even though the game has changed.