Competition Level Quotes

It's my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.

I've been in international competition, and now I know what the big boys can do. You don't go out and just run. There's an offense and a defense.

It is really nice to play in the Champions League, because we play against the best teams and the best competition in Europe.

You need to possess more than a little nastiness to play basketball at the highest level.

I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.

The day of parochialism in sports is over. The world is too small for what people like to call 'the good old days.' Fans want the best, wherever they come from.

I'd like to see him fight at 135 for the championship. I want to see how good Demetrious Johnson is or how far he could take it.

I ain't Nate Diaz. Nate Diaz is not a welterweight. He did not do well at welterweight because he was undersized, and these dudes are real gorillas in this weight class.

I can play the No. 1 player in the world in a pretty close match.

I was fighting at 125 pounds when I was 15 years old... then became a champion at 126 pounds at 25 years old.

Winning the Champions League is completely different to winning the Premier League.

People think that the Club World Cup is an easy competition, but it's not.

I think Formula One is extremely difficult, obviously, and it's the best drivers in the world so it's not easy to jump in and be on your top level immediately.

It's in the knockout games that you discover who the great players really are.

I try not to make comparisons between who I've coached. And I haven't always coached the best in the world.

In our league, 20 points in the first half isn't anything.

I left Bayern because I needed the game time.

There is no line of demarcation between the amateurs and the pros; everyone is using the same tactics and playing in the same arenas. The only thing that separates them is radio, but the artist doesn't control who goes to radio and who doesn't.

The NBA and college are two totally different games.

When you're playing against a whole bunch of All-Stars, it's like a video game. There's so much talent on the floor at once.

I've been on a 1-15 team.

I just think you can't get caught up with who's on the other side. Everybody in the NFL is good. Every team is good.

In the early '80s there was a big gap between the NBA and the international game and when we started making our careers here in the NBA, obviously, we became better players. When we used to play each other on the international level, that gap became smaller and smaller.

I've started to show the consistency in majors I had in regular tournaments back in 1998-2000 when I was contending nearly every week.

It's so much harder to make the NBA than people think it is.