Ajay Naidu Quotes

If you play with the big time players, you will also improve.

I just want better competition the more I step up.

When you play against the best players, you're going to grow.

Stepping up a gear during any race is not an easy thing to do.

When you play against the best, it brings the best out in everybody.

It's always fun to play against the best players. That's how you improve yourself.

I'm glad I came to Palace because I am getting the game time I wanted. I am also learning to fight with some good players.

Every game is tough for me because the level of competition is so high in the Premier League, and every time you have to be at your best.

When you are playing against Lionel Messi day to day in training it forces you to improve your level.

Playing with some of the best players in the world, you're going to get better every day.

It's inspiring for me to know that you've got to step up your game.

It's been great to play against the top teams in the world, it can only benefit me.

When you step foot into your first professional tournament, everything you've done in your amateur career really doesn't matter any more.

Everything is so much more stacked than it was even five or 10 years ago. There are so many more good players, so many solid players. The level doesn't really drop from around 100-500. It's really tough to make it, but I just have to work as hard as possible.

The pressure of an India-Pakistan game is immense.

I'm used to playing under pressure. In the Premier League, there are big players and big teams - we are used to it.

Players want to get better with their skill set and 3-point shooting, ballhandling, their bodies, whatever it is, but everything starts with a sense of urgency.

That's what the great teams do. That's where, if you're a good shooter, become a great one. If you're a good ballhandler, become a great one.

Everybody's calling, they want to backflip off this and into that. Once you do that a couple of times, it's like, 'OK, what do you got now?' Well, now I gotta do two flips into that, then two and a half. When they get used to that, what do you do?

If you want to grow as a player, it takes commitment.

I am sure my own game is improving by playing in Serie A.

I don't just train to be a participant. I train to come up big in big moments. That's when I know I've got to roll the sleeves up.

I want to win a ring, get better and try to learn.

When big teams play each other, you automatically want to raise your game. You want to see what level you're at, and you know you have to step up.

I play better if the matches are tight.