Freddie Ljungberg Quotes

You have to win every battle. Every small metre counts, and you have to win your duels. Then you will see you will win the game.

You can play perfect football, lots of one-touch stuff, and you lose. But that's not what you want, you want to win.

The great thing about football is that it's so fast, there are so few interruptions.

The No. 1 thing is you want to be able to win the game, and we're going to do whatever we have to do to win the game.

Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.

Whatever sport you're looking at, it's usually the team that makes the least mistakes that has the most success.

I like to go on the court and have a little bit of information about my opponent.

You have to win games by scoring points, of course, so that's important. But when you're having nights against a good defensive team, you have to win in a different manner. You have to win a defensive-type game.

Skating, like all other sports, has an element of strategy.

I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball.

I always try to prepare as well as possible for matches.

The start is crucial, really, but the entire race is crucial. There is not any room for error. If there is one bad stroke, you regularly lose the race.

When I was competing, I would run daily 20 kilometers, and in addition to that, I'd put in many hours of fighting and sparring. That's why I was always able to keep the speed in the ring. I would train so hard that sometimes it was not only hard to stand up, but it would also be hard to lay down.

Us players are supposed to dish it out for 90 minutes.

For me, what it means to be competitive is to work hard but compete in this type of game when you need to play, you need to suffer, you need to fight.

I'd rather be an athlete than a fighter, an athlete is going to go there and figure out the ways to win, see the holes in the game.

Every race is different. If you come down the home straight neck and neck, the crowd cheering for you can decide the race.

In England, everyone is really physically strong. They can play three games, and then they are ready to play the fourth. If you are a Spanish team, and you give away a corner against an English team, then you have to be ready.

Football is a game with tight results in which you don't need to be the dominant team; if you're a bit lucky and make the right decision at the right time, then you can be as successful as well.

In the Premier League, almost everyone is difficult to beat; it depends on how you begin a game and how you play in the game.

I think what is important to fight for winning the ball it is the spirit. I have had that since I started playing football, so it is the spirit but I need to be fit for doing it.

GSP knows how to use a lot of strategy.

If we want to be a top team, we can't get to 3-0 and suddenly decide not to play without the ball. We have to play with intelligence right through the game.

Football is not about possession or playing a nice passing game. Football is about winning games.

I don't want to put my game plan out there for everybody to see it and read it and teams can scheme. It just doesn't make a lot of sense.