Competitive Cycle Quotes

It's always in a cycle. One set of plays will work really well for a time, and then defenses figure it out, and you go to something else.

I need to keep moving my game forward, because Test batsmen will keep moving their games forward.

Unfortunately this is the legacy that has been handed to us by the people before us, people who have won the Tour only to disappoint fans a few years later, if this is part of the process we have to go through to get the sport to the better place, obviously I'm here, I'm doing it.

That's the thing about the NBA; there's another game.

A lot of times, you beat a person who beat a person who can beat you. I mean, it doesn't make any sense.

The tennis calendar is incredibly long, so it's normal to go through ups and downs, and you want to keep the ups as long as possible and the downs as short as possible. You have to be realistic with what you're doing.

If you're the Olympic champion then they have to wait four more years to get you again.

Every sport has different cycles where it's better than it was or less than it should be, whatever it is, that will work out.