Ezekiel Elliott Quotes

No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.

I feel like I need to find ways to disrupt the other team and apply that pressure they might not be used to. I think being able to set that tone is something I'm priding myself on.

I can't be a nice man on the field. I try to laugh, but whenever I start laughing or be jovial, I get smashed.

We always want to play and be dominant with the ball, but we respect the opposition.

They say I teach brutal football, but the only thing brutal about football is losing.

When you start off a new tournament, you want to do well.

So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you're going to win.

This year I've just been aggressive. I still have that mindset of passing the ball, and being aggressive and attacking to the basket is going to draw more attention, and that way I can find my teammates. Being in attack mode is something I try to bring into every single game, and that's what's making me be so successful.

My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn't always happen, but that's what I try for.

The onus is on the managers to send out an attacking formation and to tell their players to be bold.

If seven or eight players play offensively, then it's clear that the offensive force is greater than the defensive stability. That's what I often say internally.

A lot of guys are offensive minded, which is good at some points and times but bad at others - at lots of others. I wish I could say I want everybody to play defense as hard as I do. It's not a reality.

I'd rather be an athlete than a fighter, an athlete is going to go there and figure out the ways to win, see the holes in the game.

Sometimes you have to just plug away, plug away in your game of football and maybe when your opponent gets a bit more tired you get that little extra metre and that's when you score the goals.

I don't really worry about what the defense is trying to scheme to do against me. It really doesn't matter.

We prided ourselves at Oregon, where teams said they were going to try to beat us down and try to manhandle us, and maybe in the first quarter they were running with us, but it was just, 'Let's see how they are come the fourth quarter when they're tired, and they've had 70 to 80 plays coming at them non-stop.'

Just got to win games. You've just got to find ways to win games.

I'm a coach who admires attacking football. I want my teams to look to win.

When you're going out with the attitude that you want to win, you can't get caught up in the style of play.

I think you need to be aggressive. That's offensive football.

During the game, there has to be a moment where you have to set the tone. You have to let them know that you're a physical player.

Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.

Coaches will say that it's not important for their team to run more, and they prefer to make games the right way. I want to make games only the right way and run 10 km more.

People used to talk to me about that and say, 'Rom doesn't play with passion.' I do, but I don't show it too much because in my mind, I'm a guy that thinks a lot about how to win the game. Sometimes I let the emotions just come now, and it helps me.

As I always say each time I start a tournament, I want to go as deep as I can.