Declan Rice Quotes

It's a tough world out there and all the guys are fighting hard and the competition is really tough.

Modern competition is often described as a fight of all against all.

Looking at the team sheets, you're never quite sure one weekend to the next who's going to be in a team and who isn't.

At a club like Liverpool, it is normal there is going to be competition for every single place.

The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do.

At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat mentality.

At least, in this situation, I know my chances of coming back could be slim because of the young talent the Yankees do have.

I mean it's the most objective industry in the world. If your numbers stink, you're out. If your numbers are good, you get more money. It's the most Darwinian, it's beautiful, it's brutal, it works.

Don't kid yourself that anyone in the Premier League is going to do you any favours.

I admit I was somewhat concerned when we started to sign so many players - naturally you are going to worry about whether you can retain your place in the side.

Soccer is the most difficult business that we're in, because one day you're on top, and the next day you're very low.

There are so many things to take into account - your ambition, your ego, the press, the consumers. You can never be sure that you'll be on top of the pile again.

The packaged food business environment is very Darwinian. You're fighting for survival every year; you evolve and grow or you die. It's really that simple.

I came along at a time when the industry was eating its young.

It's a winner-take-all world.

Film people can be quite ruthless and tough. I think it's because the industry is filled with talented, driven people chasing nowhere near enough work.

Hollywood is like a piranha. They don't give you breathing room. You don't have time to let your career breathe.

In big clubs, you always have competitions for places.

Whenever you name a team and whenever you pick a squad, that is when you have to make the most difficult calls. To tell a player, 'I'm not selecting you, and these are the reasons why...' it's tough.

I obviously think I should always be picked. Every player thinks he's good enough to be playing every week.

You see the excitement on the players. I don't know... if they think, 'This coach is crazy,' or if they think that, 'No, this is pretty good.'

It's up to the coach to decide who is in the best shape to play each match.

I have no real desire to play Test cricket, and the reason I lost this desire was because I was not selected consistently for Test matches.

I started playing for a team called Cosmos in the Tandridge League before I went for a two-week trial with Palace. They must have liked what they saw.

I left Barcelona because I believed it was very difficult to have minutes in the first team, as there are very good players.