Rohit Sharma Quotes

When your are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that.

Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.

I enjoy watching competitive people. You watch 'em come and you watch 'em go, and how they try to be the best. How they handle when they're not. How they handle when they are. How they get along together on the court.

In big clubs, you always have competitions for places.

I never played for records. If I had played for records, then I would have had many more runs against my name. If, by your performance, the team wins, then that is what is most gratifying.

You now have these owners who are all successful businessmen, and they think they should be winning. They come in thinking that they should be winning. Some don't understand that only one team can win the league.

It's good to be competitive when everyone wants to be in the starting line-up.

Naturally this is football, and in big teams it is not easy to play every game.

That is one of the problems big teams face - their rivals always take the field very motivated, and I say this from experience.

I can't imagine ever not having a team, being a part of a team trying to win a game.

It's basketball. At the end of the day everyone wants to win, and that's really the reason why we play is to win.

Whether I'm No.2 or No.3 doesn't matter. Playing time is the most important thing.

I know the people expect the best - good. The people expect we'll play fantastic football and win games - good. I can't control that. I accept that, and I just focus on my players in the games.

You always - as a basketball player, as a competitor - that's where you speak most: on the court.

In every club, 11 players are happy and the others unhappy. This is correct because if one player doesn't play and is happy, he's crazy.

There's always going to be pressure on your place. It's 11 cricketers. There's always going to be other cricketers outside the team doing well.

When I played for Arsenal, like once per month, you always had this feeling you had to perform.

I've played regularly in a big club at Benfica, where it is not easy and there is a lot of pressure. In those years I learned to be a winner and play under that pressure.

I used to play sports in school, but it was hard to do that because you're part of a team and you don't want to let your team down.

I've been in football all my life, gentlemen, and I don't know whether I'm particularly qualified to be a part of anything else, except I consider it a great game, a game of many assets, by the way, and I think a symbol of what this country's best attributes are: courage and stamina and a coordinated efficiency or teamwork.

In football, day in day out, you always have to show your worth.

I love all sports.

It's always hard - if you're not the best player on your team, how can you be the best player in college?

The team with the best players wins.

I played football all my life throughout high school and ran track.