Zubin Mehta Quotes

We have to keep winning and looking good and keep fighting the best competition out there.

I don't set myself targets. Last season I scored hat-trick against Wolfsburg and three days later, that was forgotten, you're about to be judged again. When you've done well, you don't want another game, you just want to feel great. When you've done badly, you can't wait for another chance to come.

It's one thing to execute dishes on your own time for family and friends, but quite another to perform and be judged in a competition. And that's what cooking in a high profile restaurant is. It's a competition. You're up against every other three-star restaurant in your city, and if you want to stay in business, you'd better deliver.

With 'Idol' it's kind of just like 'OK, here's this competition - I need to do better than somebody else.'

Somehow, people act like I have no competition, but the thing is, the competition is so good that it forces me to be better than I even thought was possible.

Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.

I played with a lot of great players before. They're all the same. They take a lot of responsibility for their own play, put a lot of pressure on themselves to perform and to play well.

In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best - I would much rather have come tenth and be judged against everyone than come first and be judged against just a few.

I've been lucky to conduct the very best orchestras in the world: New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Berlin, the London Philharmonic.

I'm very proud of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

The Champions League is special. You play at a higher level, so you have to be very focused and have greater motivation.

I have to live up to my expectations - which is to break all the records that I can, dominate by a wide margin.

Playing for a Champions League place is not enough. It is not my target, but it is a target we have to take.

Every time we do a new record, we do the best we can. For us, every record is stepping into the ring with another heavyweight champion.

If you are considered as favourites, you have stand up and deliver. You can't make too many mistakes. You have to be the best.

Whenever something in the system changes, you have to prove yourself again. But wherever you go, you have to prove that you're better than whoever else is on the team. At a team like Arsenal, that's always going to be hard so I always have to be on it in training and matches.

It's always a good situation to have the target be on you because that means you have been playing well.

In Madrid, the demand is maximum, and you have to always be at the top. If you are not, doubts come.

Anything other than a gold medal will be disappointing.

I have to keep performing well for club and country. That's what I always want to do. If I do that, then that extra media attention comes towards me.

At Bayern you need other characteristics to assert yourself. Just being good is not enough there.

I think the winning scores are always pretty much the same but it's a very big deal to sort of prove yourself against some of the world's best.

One of the best sayings in tennis and sport is that pressure is a privilege.

You have to try and do everything to show your best qualities; otherwise, you will not be here anymore.

I try to be the best and give the maximum so that people can say I'm among the top players.