Carly Patterson Quotes

In sport you always think the strongest guy should be going for it and getting the best results. The thing is, cycling also has a very important team aspect, which I don't think that a lot of people fully grasp.

To have full and multiple criteria is the best way to decide who is best prepared to be on that Olympic team.

I'm playing pretty good now, but my ranking doesn't say that. I'm number two.

There are a million ways of arriving at a performance, any number of them solid.

In big clubs, you always have competitions for places.

You're not going to put up good numbers every year.

I always try to perform, and not because you have players on the bench or on the pitch that can play in your position.

Through the regular season, if you get really good at what you do, teams will have a hard time adjusting to you.

I think it is a good thing for Indian cricket that there is so much competition for opening slot. Players put in more effort because you can be kicked out if you don't play well and make mistakes. I take it positively and try to ensure that I give my best.

Consistency in selection is great but it's a whole lot easier if you've got players who warrant that consistency through their performances.

The 2002 (Olympic) team was a great team, we won the gold medal, they deserved all the accolades that they got. But this team seems to have a little more depth and maybe a little more talent to pick from. So it makes the job of picking the right 23 guys even more difficult.

If you win games, at the top, there's no pressure to change. You change when you have to change. You change when you don't win anymore.

In tournament cricket, with a new opponent each game, I think you actually need to play to your own strengths more.

If there's competition in training, then the training is intense, and then you have the pressure of a weekend that if you don't put in good performances, then your place is maybe up for grabs.

If a guy's not executing very well, then obviously we haven't given him enough looks in practice.

Either a player accepts competition or they say they absolutely need to play. For a player to have an open door, I have to have, at the same position, an element that is just as good or even better.

It's weird watching games and being apart from it but seeing teams that could use you in certain situations. You see where you could help different clubs in different ways.

After a test match it's very easy to make selections, once you've seen exactly how the surface is going to play.

Our players know that we try to come in each week and put ourselves in the best position to have a chance to win, and sometimes that means some people playing more than others; sometimes it means using different personnel groupings in different weeks.

I'm a person who looks at myself, and after every game, I like to reflect on my performance, not just the team.

I have evolved a lot as a player working with Klopp, who is a very tactical coach.

Every manager is different in one way or another, but what stays the same is coaching Barcelona players - players who want the ball, who want to be protagonists on the field - so each manager who's been here has been able to take advantage of that, and, luckily, I feel we've become more complete because of it.

Any player who is in a national team is their because he deserves to be.

Competition means the best player will play.

Every coach has his own ideas about managing the team and how it plays.