Quotes About Performance

A final is about winning. You can't wait for the opponent to be better than you, or let them start to play their football.

I feel like I've got a routine with how I study the opponent and go about each week.

The biggest meaning and the most important thing is not to give opportunities to give the opponent an idea about how we are going to play.

If my opponent wants to think of me as a dunker, it's just gonna shock them more when I show them another part of my game.

The only thing that helps you play better is being ready to go against your next opponent.

I don't think much of automatisms, because they assume that a situation is always the same, otherwise the process no longer works. But that doesn't fit the reality with 22 players on the pitch. If the opponent is only half a metre to the left, the player suddenly doesn't know what he has to do.

If I can't defend my opponent and if he scores as much I'm scoring then he won the matchup.

When you're in there with a top-level opponent, it's supposed to be a close, action-packed fight.

I'm putting constant pressure on my opponents and really dictating play.

If any player in the world tells you he doesn't care about what the opponents do, he is lying.

I just have to play my best against my opponents.

You can lose to any team and then beat your top opponents and still not be in the top four.

You can't control games for 90 minutes; there will be moments where the opponents will show their quality.

A good match is about the chemistry between opponents.

Villarreal have played well against difficult opponents. They're never an easy team to beat.

The higher we are, the more the focus will be on us and that means our opponents are going to try even harder against us.

My opponents are irrelevant. It's all about which Rob turns up. If I get it right, I can win anything.

I don't feel the need to do anything other than what I've been doing, beating my opponents, getting some knockouts, keeping the fans coming. I don't need to do anything other than that.

We always have respect for our opponents, but we will try to enforce our own game.

There's no specific reason for it, sometimes results just go against you and your opponents play too well.

The big games against big opponents, those are the best games to play in.

That's how tennis is sometimes: You can have good days, you can have bad days, your opponents can play really well.

I'd rather do movies 'cause I am better at movies, but I do shows 'cause the opportunities have come forward.

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.