David Gower Quotes

I do miss competing, being out there - the atmosphere, I do miss it.

Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.

The reason why people watch sport is to feel something. They want to feel emotions. So if the players don't give emotions, it's more difficult to get into it.

It's fun running out onto the field. It's much more fun playing in the playoffs.

The first one is your first World Cup, so you go into it with a lot of pressure, trying to take it all in, but you are just so focused.

You have to show up in the World Cup, and in the World Cup anything can happen.

It was really an easy decision for me to be a part of the Lakers. It's priceless. It is one of the few places where I truly get lost in the joy of the moment of that game. All of the stresses and all the responsibilities are gone.

When I'm out there on the field, I'm in a whole different world, you know? It's like, I'm just having so much fun.

I said to myself I've got to go up there and do it because the New York Mets keep winning every day. The game was on the line and I wanted to go out there and come through for my team. That win tonight means a lot for us.

Nothing is like being out there and playing and performing and winning - nothing. But to have an interest in the player? The nerves and everything that goes with it? Seeing what he's learned and how he's done it? That's the second best thing to playing. I think.

We have to win that game. But we have to win every game, that's the way it's always been.

Even if we're in fifth place in September, I get butterflies before a game. I'm nervous.

Football is magic for me: it is a special feeling every time I walk out on to the pitch and touch the ball. That is how I would define what magic is.

I'll play as long as that competitive spirit and drive is there because that's what gets me up in the morning, that feeling of having a batsman drive at you, play and miss, the sort of theatre around that sort of stuff.

This is football, you always have to compete to be able to play. When you're at a big club, it's like that.

I love going out and competing.

I live to be in these matches.

We try each and every week to win. We know what's at stake, but every coach has that mindset, so it's not easy.

I'm just really excited every time I play a match.

I've always said it's just a game of cricket. The only pressure I get is when I feel I've let the team down.

Football gives us moments we can't imagine.

You want to score in every game and to fight hard.

I'm fascinated by sports, the buzz of winning, and the buzz of losing.

There's a lot of variables you can't control in trying to win a game, but at the end of the day it does mean something to win a game in the big leagues and be on the mound.

When you play for a team like Chelsea you will have to fight for your place.