Quotes About Perseverance

The Premier League is different to other leagues where I have played, and everybody knows it is very tough, but I will do my best to beat my own personal records - I'm very motivated.

Sometimes in the Premier League, you are in a game where you can't play nice football because you just wouldn't win it.

In my first year, I won the Premier League, and two cups after that, so I learned a lot from my experience in England, and I think it was all positive.

Winning the Premier League is never easy. Whether you're at home or away, the games are always tough.

I came back to Chelsea to stay. When I took my decision to come back here from Paris, it was to win the Premier League and to do something again with Chelsea, so I am very happy here.

In the first season, I didn't contribute enough, but I really believe you need a year to succeed in the Premier League; it's the fastest league in the world.

I always say the Premier League is like two boxers fighting. The one who is least strong gets tired; he does down.

I've been a professional since I was a 17-year-old, over 200 league games from Conference all the way up to the Premier League now, so I think that's experience in itself.

It's hard to get a chance in the Premier League for an English keeper.

In the Premier League, every game is tough. Every game is difficult.

I've crossed every bridge to become a Premier League goalkeeper, I think I'm going in the right direction and I think I'm mature as a goalkeeper.

With the Premier League, you can afford to lose a couple here and there, but it's a tough competition, a cup competition.

I've had to work so hard in my career to get to this point, from leaving City and going to the Championship to work my way back up. I believed I could do it, and I'm grateful to Burnley and Tottenham for letting me do it in the Premier League.

You don't manage more than 900 games, mostly in the top half of the Premier League, if you haven't got something that enables you to cope with pressure.

There are no easy games in the Premier League.

I want to show I can play at my best for a whole Premier League season.

The most important thing is making sure that we survive because Fulham deserves to be in the Premier League - it's a great club with a lot of history.

When I got the chance to play in the Premier League with Hull City in 2014, I had lived a lot of real life.

That's why it's hardest to win a Premier League instead of a Champions League - because it's over 38 games. You can't play well in every game, but it's about grinding out results.

I'm really happy with my first season in the Premier League: I played 38 games and managed to stay injury-free.

It can't be too bad being one of the top goalscorers at Arsenal in the Premier League, mainly as a winger as well, and three FA Cups.

After you win a Premier League, the second year is more difficult.

You need doors to open, you need a chance - and you have got to have something, to take your chance when the door opens at the right time. My first port of call was to be a manager, then it was a successful manager, then it was a Premier League manager.

I've never had that dream in my head: 'I want to play Bundesliga or Premier League.' I was a fan, but it was never the dream that one day I was going to make it, because a lot of people had told me already that I wouldn't.