Chris Hughton Quotes

It's always a good situation to have the target be on you because that means you have been playing well.

As a manager, a coach and a player, you want to be at the top end of the table.You want to be challenging.

In order to be a star performer you have to have someone to play against.

First be best, then be first.

Don't let anyone be close to how good you are, no matter what the division is - one, two or three. It doesn't matter, everyone plays football. It doesn't matter who the competition is.

Anyone who's good on any week, makes you want to go out there and beat 'em.

In Europe, being fast, being strong, playing only with your quality, you are going to struggle against teams that prepare.

Playing with a winner is important.

It's always nice to be among the best teams but not everyone can do that.

For me it's a great challenge to play against the best.

Coaches understand that pressure is part of the rush of coaching. The challenge of trying to outplay your opponent is part of the fun, the adrenaline, the preparation, seeing your team evolve. It's why coaches become coaches.

All the managers in the world are here to win games.

If you want to be the best team in the world, you've got to beat the best teams.

In football, we tried each week to come up with the best game plan for every opponent. Some were tougher than others.

When you go up against the best of the best, you're ready for any type of competition.

First we become the best, then we'll become first.

What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.

There is no life without sport and no sport without competition.

Any man who goes into anything in life and does it better than the average will have a successful life. If he does it worse than the average, his life will not be successful. And no business can exist in which success cannot be won on that basis.

The bottom line is winning. I want to do what we need to do to win football games.

The bottom line is that it's the NFL, and there's going to be competition wherever you go. That's the way I look at it. I've had competition in high school. I've had competition in college, and that's part of the game. That's part of how you improve as a quarterback.

Sometimes it's all about the win, sometimes it's about the skiing.

Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.

In order to be the man, you have to beat the man.

I work hard and I have a standard of excellence - and I expect everyone at the Interior Department to meet that same standard. I delegate a lot. I might appear to be doing a lot of different things, but there's a strong team helping me. I believe we're going to have the strongest team of any agency in the Obama administration.