Lin Dan Quotes

I have played against many players, but I will always consider Lee Chong Wei as my toughest competitor.

Of course for your main rivals, you're going to get extra motivated for it, particularly if you haven't played him for a long time.

When big teams play each other, you automatically want to raise your game. You want to see what level you're at, and you know you have to step up.

I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.

All I wanted to be was a player.

I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I'll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I'm gonna tell ya, that's one helluva man, and God bless him.

I have been compared to Mao since we were both junior skaters. We've felt the rivalry since then, so we wanted to avoid each other. However, she has been my motivation.

Rio in four years; I've got more inspiration in the last two, three weeks. I'm sure I'm going to get more in the Paralympics in the next coming weeks, so by the end of this season, I'm going to take a month off, and then the next four years is going to be good.

I love competition because I've always run faster when somebody was running next to me.

Nobody can walk on a track and beat me unless they have an extraordinary day and I have a bad day, which I keep from happening.

The appetite and fight for winning a game outweighs any other thoughts.

Real Madrid is like Manchester United or Liverpool or Bayern Munich. There is so much history, and you need to play and win against that history. It's difficult to play against them because you fight against everything - the history, the players - but because of that, the motivation is always so high.

You always want that as a player, to have that guy on the other side of you that's equally as talented and can make plays. It fuels you a little bit.

For whatever reason, I have got a few goals against Arsenal, so I do enjoy playing against them.

My coaches know when it's a big fight, I'm at the gym because if they give me some pretender, another actor, I might not take it.

I'm not just a footballer; I'm a top athlete, and we have to be at the top of our game.

Everyone is at their best against the champions.

I'll see trash talk and people telling me why they're favorite fighter is going to beat me. It motivates me for sure.

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

Everybody wants to beat their former team, and I'm no different.

It's a good thing isn't it, having competition? I enjoy it.

The footballer's career is very long and staying on the top for many years is always very difficult.

As a competitor, you want the biggest, tallest challenge you can possibly ask for.

I'm looking forward to playing against LeBron.

Put me in the game, and my team will win 9 times out of 10.