Quotes About Performance

With the Premier League, Champions League, FA Cup, and League Cup, I will play many games with Spurs. And I'm going to enjoy all the playing time I get.

Whether it is my return to Test or not, I have always bowled with heart and soul. A good performance always spurs you on.

I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.

If you don't have competition in a squad, you can have complacency - and, if you have complacency, you won't win.

You are all mates off the pitch, but on it, you are all competing for places. I think that only makes a healthier squad - more players fighting for positions can only mean everyone has got to step their game up.

When I was in the GB Women's football team at the 2012 Olympics, it was obvious who was in the first XI and who was making up the numbers. Kelly Smith was going to be first-choice striker no matter what, and the other forwards in the squad mentally checked out as a result.

What matters is getting the best out of the squad you have.

Ever since I've been at Arsenal, we've had numerous quality players, and the whole squad had been very strong. It just seemed that in the big games we came up short sometimes, and you wonder why.

One cheerleader per season per NFL squad is chosen to attend the Pro Bowl in Hawaii. All season long, the cheerleaders speculate about who will be chosen.

The more you play, the more you feel part of the squad, and then, in turn, you end up playing better. I think it's a psychological gap as well - if you don't think you're a first-team player, then you won't be.

No one can take their place or their England shirt for granted. If I want to be in that squad, I need to keep banging in the goals to make sure I stay in the manager's plans.

Sometimes I am questioned why I play better for the national squad than at Manchester City. I am the same at both places, but City is one team, and the Brazil national squad is another.

No one is guaranteed their place in the squad.

I want to play more minutes. I'm a player who doesn't want to stay on the bench or not in the squad.

My priority is to perform the job for which I am in the squad.

I've shown I am deserving to be in the England squad, but I don't just want a place in the squad; I want to be in the team.

You only have to look at the England squad to see the amount of players who get in the squad and start the games - the majority play in the Champions League.

My relationship with the national squad is a separate thing; I've always been lucky in that, for Argentina, I've always performed well, independently of what's been going on at any club.

I don't know how you get in the England squad without getting in the Arsenal team.

I'm always playing jokes, even on the manager - some, not many. I want to try and keep my place in the squad.

I have to treat all of the players at the same level with the same rules and same demands. It's difficult to understand, because the outside world is thinking when you pay a lot for the player, then you have to put him in the squad.

The more quality players there are, the better it is for the squad.

I enjoy working, and I enjoy working every day - and it is for that reason that I don't so much like the idea of working with an international squad. To have every day on the pitch is important to me.

I think public criticism of players can go one of two ways: either the players will want to raise a proverbial middle finger at their manager and prove them wrong, or the squad will go within themselves and performances will deteriorate.