Jack Butland Quotes

Growing up as a wrestler, especially in practice, I think you get used to competing without much of a crowd around.

I don't usually get nervous on the pitch because playing football is what I've done all my life.

In baseball, you have to remain calm, cool, and collected. In football, you can let out a little anger sometimes. It was a fun game, and I liked it, but I knew in my heart I was going to play baseball.

Everybody tries to score a great goal, and I am lucky I have netted a few.

I play in front of 70,000 fans week in and week out, and I may drop the ball in practice, I may run the ball the wrong way, but once it's game time, it's game on.

You find sprinters testing other sprinters' mental capability. But these are my good friends on the track. I don't think we need to do that.

You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.

Everyone knows the game is about the players.

I would say Hope Solo is competitive.

When I'm out on the football field, I have so much confidence in what I'm doing.

I really enjoyed every minute of it. I mean, I've learned so much in the last week, I mean, just the way to play a real, real doubles. It was a great experience for me, and we had a lot of fun.

One of the things I've learned is that baseball is something that happens over time.

I'm more akin to football than I think anything else because that's what I played in high school.

My aim is to play as many games as possible and to go out and be one of the 11 players again.

The truth of basketball is done in competition and fundamentals and team, but there's a lot of other junk that goes around the game.

There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer.

My whole career I'm used to playing a lot of games.

My philosophy about the game, for instance, is that you have players out there who really do different things.

It doesn't matter how pretty you look it's how many runs you get.

It's always good to get back out on the field.

I like what I am doing. I enjoy all parts of the game - the team building, training camp, game days, the excitement of Sunday... it beats working.

I always had a concept of watching great players, great goalkeepers.

I think the main thing about football is confidence.

I enjoy playing against big, top strikers.

In the Premier League you know you'll play a certain amount of matches so you can always think 'I'll put it right next week' if you lose.