Saul Niguez Quotes

I like to challenge myself, to compare myself against the best.

I think every player aspires to challenge themselves against the very best and that's what I'm hoping to do.

When you play against the best, it brings the best out in everybody.

I want to test myself, playing with the best and against the best. I can do that at international level, so that's my target and what I want to reach.

Right from the beginning I wanted to test myself against the best, against real champions.

We put pressure on ourselves because we want to be so great; we want to be the best team possible that we can be.

I always want to be the best at whatever I'm attempting to do.

Always compare yourself to the best. Even if you never measure up, it can't help but make you better.

I'm working to be the best - the very best. There are a lot of people in this industry, and I'm trying to be the best. I'm working to affect history in a positive way.

I just want to do something challenging.

I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.

You surround yourself with amazing, grade-A talent, and you're going to have to lift your game. You kind of thrive just by being around such people.

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

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

I think you should always aim for more.

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

Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.

The way that I am now, I don't want to accept mediocrity. I don't want to accept the easy road.

I always wanted to play against the best.

My goal has always been to try to live up to every ounce of my potential. For me, that means working with the best people and working with the best material.

I have a horror of not rising above mediocrity.

If more people would try and reach up instead of going to the lowest common denominator, I think we'd be a lot better off.

I get more ambitious every decade, and I am more ambitious today than ever before. I still love the game - and the thrill of the chase.

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you.

If you're successful in what you do over a period of time, you'll start approaching records, but that's not what you're playing for. You're playing to challenge and be challenged.