Georginio Wijnaldum Quotes

I've learned that every game is different. You could play one team and have a terrible game and the next time you play them have the best game of your career.

I feel like, at any given time, if I'm not playing my best football, if I'm not taking coaching points, if I'm not doing things right out there on the field, I feel I can be covered by anyone.

Even championship-winning teams don't play well all the time.

You play 20 games, you have one bad game, I think any team in this league will live with that.

The NBA is changing so much. It's not like when I came up, with that old-school mentality that practice really mattered.

You can't be the best player if suddenly you play well and the next day you play badly.

How can you be a giant of the sport when you are not consistent?

Over the season you have waves. It is very hard to go through the whole season at the same standard and winning games in the same way.

A lot of coaches might yank you after the first couple shots don't go in.

Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self-determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers.

It is difficult for me to accept that I only sit on the bench in the league.

The worst part about getting in a rut in football is the weeks are so long.

I stay in character at all times regardless of whoever's playing well, the team isn't playing well. if we're up or down, I'm going to stay in character.

It's important to know as much as I can about the players.

I wouldn't say I've changed at all. A lot of people will keep saying I'm a different person, especially when I go across those white lines. I think it's just the hunger and desire and passion I've got for the game.

You can't hold up in a FIBA game if you don't have great competitive spirit.

Football is played by 11 players, and unfortunately, every time, it happens that some do well, and some do worse.

As a player, I don't want to come off the field.

I've coached grassroots for eight years, I coached middle school, and I coached high school.

I sort of know my role with the ball but with the bat I've been up and down the order quite a few times.

There's always competition in the national team.

As players we are in control of what we do and the way we prepare for the games.

When we are with the national team we are playing against much better players.

It is very easy to make athletes, and it is very difficult to make rugby players with that rugby instinct. I would like to think I have got a bit of rugby instinct and have become more of a rugby athlete along the way.

In every club, 11 players are happy and the others unhappy. This is correct because if one player doesn't play and is happy, he's crazy.