Alistair Overeem Quotes

One thing when I started playing in the league, I saw that a lot of guys are friendly. It's OK to be friendly, especially off the court. But on the court, I want to dominate.

Obviously, it is good to have competitiveness in the team and that urge to want to beat the driver next to you, but at the same time, I think we are gonna respect each other.

I think it is rare that one player really hates another player on a team.

I don't ever go into a fight wanting to hurt someone. I just want to show them that I am better than them, and if they get hurt, it's part of the sport.

I'm against the fighting. But sometimes when you're trying to help your team, trying to win the games, there are moments when you need to get a little aggressive.

I don't have no issue with any guy. I'm a football player. I'm a competitor. When we're in the field, we're going to compete and be competitive. It's not personal between none of these guys. It's all in the game.

When I'm aggressive, all the other guys are aggressive, and somehow that's how we win games.

There is no such thing as friends on the field.

Sometimes you get into fights if a teammate is getting taken advantage of, sometimes just from competing and you feel someone takes a cheap shot. It's just the intensity. It's an intense game, sometimes you just get too fired up and fights happen.

We're here for one reason, and that's to win ballgames. You're going to have your feuding in there. But that is not going to carry over to the field. That's just the way it is.

Every time I stepped on the practice field when I was in San Diego, I dreaded going to work. It wasn't any fun. I didn't like the people I was playing with. They didn't like me.

I think you can get too focused on the championship and forget how rewarding it is to be part of a team.

In high school I was on the basketball team, but the coach did something I didn't dig and the next day he looked up and saw me practising with the football team.

I hate competition.

People can be great competitors on Sunday and mates on Monday.

Then in a fraction of a second, I realized that these sportsmen were not anyone's enemies.

I've had teammates I didn't get along with, who hasn't? I've never had a teammate call me a bad guy, while he was my teammate, and if he did when I was gone what kind of teammate was he anyway?

There's ego in all of us rugby players.

Soccer isn't very social. Plus, if you don't like someone on the other team, you can do something about it.

Look around. There are no enemies here. There's just good, old-fashioned rivalry.

One of the things about football is, it's a relationship business.

That's the great thing with Lyon: we are such a competitive group of players, but we know each other so well, so what happens on the pitch stays on the pitch.

I have a go at defenders, and they have a go at me. We argue... Whatever happens on the pitch stays on the pitch.

It's kind of interesting on a team sport because you have young players, you have older players, you have veterans. But ultimately, when you step in between those lines, you're just a player.

At Lyon, there's 20 other superstars there - I'm not the best player there. I'm not the best player at England.