Nomar Garciaparra Quotes

I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.

I'm better than Olivier.

Jon and I have a lot of drive. But really, the most glaring difference is I'm better looking.

I'm so much better than James Vick.

To be honest, I never compare myself with the rookies.

One minute you're a developing athlete trying to get to the top, then the next minute you do well and win a medal somewhere, and then it's all foisted on you. You never know when it's going to happen. You don't think about the media side of things when you're a young athlete trying to do well.

I'm really good at standup. I always win at standup.

With a revival, you're compared to somebody else.

I have played for Real Madrid, which is such a big club and where the pressure is so huge because you have to go and, really, win absolutely every game. There is no game where people don't expect you to win. So, having played there for three years, pressure is nothing that would scare me.

Look, I'm in the top 20 of players who ever lived.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of, while others judge us by what we have already done.

I'd much rather have that pressure than be at the end of the field and no one expecting you to win. That's the kind of pressure that you've got to enjoy and love.

I had more pressure when I competed in Moscow. I had no pressure in Montreal because I only went to do my routines and hoping I didn't mess it up when I was on the bar. When I came back, 10,000 people were at the airport and I thought, 'Why?' because, in my mind, I hadn't done anything different from what I used to do in my gym.

I think at a club like Liverpool you always feel a bit of pressure. You should. But it doesn't bother me.

My first year I scored 10 goals in La Liga. Then people started saying 'yeah, the new Messi.'

I don't compare myself with anybody.

We strikers, when we're scoring, we're confident, and we'll try and hit anything.

In Brazil, the one who wears 10 constructs the attacks. That is what I will try to do here. The number I have at Liverpool does not give me any added pressure. The pressure I have is to play well and do my best for the team. I know that I am representing a huge club, and I want to enjoy my football.

I'm just worried about what I'm doing. Case has played well, and Case is doing a great job. But at the same time, I'm not going to concern myself with him.

Going to the Combine, I had a lot of eyes on me, high praise on me, so I had to perform well at the Combine, or everything would have just went downhill.

People keep asking me if I feel pressure. But I don't feel pressure. I realize there's a lot on my plate, a lot of expectations for me to come in and win and do certain things. But I'm just playing the way I always have.

When people compare me to him... it's like 'wow' maybe they see me on his level but I don't believe I am there yet. It is what it is, he's a skilful player, I'm quite skilful myself so they are always going to compare me to him especially that he's my uncle.

If I were Goldberg or Brock Lesnar, I wouldn't want to have to go on after me and Randy. From their standpoint, I wouldn't want to be them and have to go on after us.

I'm a person that, when I'm in the right mood, not any one of these girls can touch me.

Guys like Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal know how to win matches, they don't need to have as much confidence as other players.