Cesar Azpilicueta Quotes

It's never easy at the Olympic level. Russia, Romania and China always are contenders.

When you're playing against a whole bunch of All-Stars, it's like a video game. There's so much talent on the floor at once.

I never really hated any particular sport but out of all the sports, I used to prefer the team games to running and sprinting and those types of things.

I love team sports.

All the fans want to see good games.

The competition is tough at the international level. There are very good players.

I want to go out and win football games, and I want the ball to be put in my hands.

I think, in the U.S., we have such a focus on the physicality, on being the best athlete, that it sort of overshadows the football aspect of it.

Go out there and play hard, understand your teammates, understand the other team's gameplan, understand your coaches' philosophies and what they want you to do. There's nothing better than showing, though; more than talking, you have to make your actions speak louder than words.

There is a battle between me and Lin Dan and Lee Chong Wei. We always do our best.

My job is to just make winning plays when I'm out on the court, and hopefully we're winning. That's all I want.

I grew up playing in lots of physical battles against lots of players. It's something I enjoy. I'm a big lad myself, so I feel I can handle myself in a battle.

It's always good for a player to be on the pitch.

It's easy to play football when everything is going well and you are winning games back to back, winning, winning, it's the best feeling ever, you can go out there and express yourself you feel like you are not going to make mistakes.

If you are not 100 per cent, Virender Sehwag or Chris Cairns will destroy you.

When I went to work with Garinger, they were good kids and a very good team. But they had a nine-game losing streak, and you can see that they were getting down and depressed and not feeling rewards for their efforts. But when I came in there, I didn't need to teach them much about X's and O's.

I like contact sports like football. I like collisions, and I was good at it.

Obviously during practice there's a competitive nature if you're on opposite teams.

You have to remember one thing: Football is entertainment; it's not life or death. Once the game is over, you're already talking about next year and the draft. It's just entertainment.

You just play your game and find a way to win for your team.

I play with good players. So it makes it a lot easier when you're playing with the guys I'm able to play with.

To be really honest, I do not mind whether it is offense or defense. I just like being in on plays and doing what needs to be done to help us win.

In college, I prided myself on defense and guarding the best player every night.

I know perfectly well that in football, you have good times, and you have bad times.

The biggest thing I've been working on his just finding the open man.