Jack Butland Quotes

At Liverpool and England, it's about moving forward and going in the right direction, and you don't want to be left behind by any means.

We tried to convince people that we didn’t have to be last in everything.

If you want to be in the top teams, you know you have competition in your place.

I would not be who I am if I were not putting pressure on me to up the level of my game further.

I like competing against the very best.

I think that is when guys are at their best: when you put pressure and have something to work towards and have something to compare yourself to or try to best them, it really does make you better.

It does not matter if I have 10, 12 sacks: I want better, and I want more.

When I am No. 2, and I am working as hard as I can, then quite often the keeper ahead starts to raise his game even more.

If I didn't have competition and I didn't have people trying to take my spot, then it can make someone lazy. So it does the exact opposite. It motivates me.

If you take your foot off the gas, there's always someone who wants your spot.

I've always said I want to score more.

I hope to become a great player.

I'm a very ambitious player, and I want to be around those top players. I want to compete with them and learn from them.

It's what makes everybody better, that pressure for a spot and competing.

When you are at the top, teams raise their game to play against you, breathing down your neck because they want what you have.

It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself.

I just want to be great. I want to stand out, be a great leader for this defense, and I'm just trying to leave it all out on the field.

Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.

Paul Lambert has assembled a great bunch of lads and training has been going very well. I am just desperate to get into the team and do my best for the club.

To me, everything's competition.

I like to compete.

With 'Idol' it's kind of just like 'OK, here's this competition - I need to do better than somebody else.'

I want to run with the best, that's how I've always lived.

I always thought records were there to be broken.