Rivaldo Quotes

It is not my decision who plays in La Liga, the Champions League, or the Copa. In any case, I just do the best possible in each training session and in each game to be able to get a chance in La Liga.

You have to be on top of your game, train hard every day, and try to convince the boss throughout the week that he should put you in the team.

To be number one, you must train like you are number two.

At Juve you always have to go onto the field ready to give your best.

For the last seven years, I have been racing the best in the world and making my way through the ranks. I am in that spot where I have got a real opportunity to produce something. I am not going to take it for granted because I know those guys will step it up.

There are a lot of players that want to go to the World Cup, so you have to be the player that goes out and performs and shows how much you want to go.

I give my best every day in training and in games; this is the only way that I know how to play football.

When I joined Sale I thought that if I did well there I would have a chance of making the World Cup squad. What I did not expect was how quickly I got back into the frame.

The Liga is a tough league, but I'm inspired by players like Neymar and Messi. You have to work very hard to reproduce what they do, especially Neymar.

I think you are wrong if you play a Champions League game, and you don't find motivation.

I worked hard, and I was always frustrated when wrestlers didn't want to work as hard.

If you're not ambitious, there's no point in playing football.

We are all football players and we are here to do our best. You want to work hard in training and we will see what happens at a weekend.

It's always good to have great players around you. You have to battle for your place, and it makes you more hungry on the training pitch, and you know, when you get your chance, you have to take it.

Our daily work ethic - that need to always do better and top our last performance - is what makes USWNT football players who we are.

During the off-season when you see other people playing in the Super Bowl, you wonder, and you say to yourself, 'Are you ever gonna get there and see what it feels like?' And it pushes you a little bit harder during that off-season to work to try to get there the following year.

Paul Lambert has assembled a great bunch of lads and training has been going very well. I am just desperate to get into the team and do my best for the club.

I suppose it hacks me off sometimes when people go on about all the other stuff, because I have really worked hard at my game, and I've been incredibly dedicated in getting myself fit, and getting my game right.

I'm an athlete. I go out there and fight my heart out.

Losing hurts me. I was determined to be the best.

For me, it is important to win titles and for that I need to work hard, stay healthy and be able to compete. The rest, I always say, it comes.

I go out there and train as hard as anybody else.

We're going to play better, and we're going to play harder.

I knew what my times were and how my practices were progressing and how close I was to the goals I had set for the year. I swam hard. I always swam hard. If I didn't, I knew I would pay for it either the next day or the next meet.

There's always someone out there training for your spot. For my scholarship at the University of Florida, for my job with the Denver Broncos, for my position with the New York Jets. And that's the reason to get up earlier or stay up later.