Shreyas Iyer Quotes

It's a privilege and an honor to play for the national team, but I think that the training that I was in at Frankfurt was the highest level right underneath.

As a professional athlete, I believe that I need to explore my opportunities to the maximum, in order to excel and continue to play the best football I can.

I played professional level sports. When you're playing for money, it's a whole other level.

Training with world-class players week in, week out has only made me a better player and I'm thankful for that.

Unless you are a good bowler, you won't be in the India A side.

Of course, you want to win something and be as successful as possible as an individual player. It is normal to look around and think, 'With what club can I achieve that with?'

I have played against many players, but I will always consider Lee Chong Wei as my toughest competitor.

Colorado Springs is a very good place to train ahead of the Olympics. We get to compete with different partners, learn different movements, we also get to improve upon our speed, which is very essential.

Getting to the national team is very complicated.

Experience is a big thing when playing in the Premier League - it's a different game to any other league.

To be in the England squad, you have got to be playing well and your standards have got to be up there.

The most important thing for me is that I get regular first team action.

I don't think I'd be the wrestler or the athlete that I am today if I didn't have some of the intergender matches that I have.

I have taken a leap forward at United which has allowed me to get into the national side.

HIL has provided a wonderful platform for Indian youngster to showcase their skills, gain experience of playing top players, and can be serve as a good supply line for the national team.

If I had not accepted Milan, then I definitely wouldn't have been called to the national team.

You can be one inch from the national team and the opportunity to make so much money and a life out of it. That's why people hang on so long.

If I am at 100 percent fitness, I do not fear any competition for places in the first 11.

It just goes to show how much the women's game has improved over the years: there are some outstanding goalkeepers capable of fantastic reaction saves.

If it's good for me to go to the national team and play there - not just go there to give experience but to play and be useful - I think it's good.

International rugby is a step up, and this is somewhere you come to get better and improve as a player.

I had a chance to play against the USA teams when I was a player. I wasn't on any USA team but scrimmaging against them and playing against them was a highlight.

At the highest level, you are playing the best from an opposing country, so the margin of error is very little.

The quality of competitors abroad really pushes your timings, something that's tough to replicate in the country.

Teams from Ukraine and Russia are getting better all the time.