Diego Forlan Quotes

Of course, rivals do affect athletes mentally, but if you are competing with top-notch athletes, you will push each other, you will encourage each other.

Knowing that guys are out there improving and trying to take it to that next level, that gives me fire to improve my play and work on these little things that can keep me from dominating a game.

Good athletes will be there at good competitions, but I don't think about them; I just think of bettering my own time.

As a footballer, you always want to test yourself against the best.

When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.

There's no day when I don't think it would be great to be 25 years old and have the Olympics coming in less than 300 days - and be the best in the world. I can't think of anything so motivating.

I love competition because I've always run faster when somebody was running next to me.

From the age of 6, when I won my first race in skiing, I was on the national ski teams, really until Olympics in '72, so I always had a lot of discipline and commitment to achieve as much as I could in good way. Competitiveness doesn't stop when you stop skiing.

As a competitor, I want to push myself as much as I can to be at that level that I want to be.

I love this sport. I love what I do. I love fighting and combat, and I love to train hard. But I want to be at my best.

Most pro athletes are super competitive, super clutch, and they don't want to lose at anything.

It's really important to have someone in competition for your position. Because that's the way to make each other a better player.

I love athletics and martial-arts and competition because it gets me right and puts me in the right place.

I think momentum is huge in sport, especially in a series like the Ashes.

I'm always trying to make myself a better sports entertainer.

I want to play as long as possible at the highest level.

All I got to say is I've got to put myself mentally and physically in a position where I can play at a high level and help my team win and that's what I plan on doing.

Some players need pressure to get the best out of themselves.

Every season, I want to be the best I can to be Africa's best player. I will do the best I can.

I have never considered any player as my competitor; each one of them is good and talented, and my job is to beat them.

Playing United is the sort of thing that really gets the best out of me.

The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body's normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.

It's not good to focus on one person or two persons about being your rivals. The important thing is just to train hard and be ready for the competition and to prepare for the races so that in case of anything that comes out, you are able to handle it.

Golf is so selfish - it's so much about how do we get better and get to the next level.

I've always been really inspired by watching top athletes putting in peak performances.