Peter Crouch Quotes

The league is crazy. It's hard to win in this league, and you have teams coming at you every week with players just as good as you.

Track and field is tougher physically, but golf is tougher mentally.

I think it is also the most demanding league; the pace of the game in the EPL is something else and rightly for me is maybe the best league in the world.

There is nowhere to hide as an international back-row forward.

I've had matches go 38 minutes. To be able to move for 38 minutes and have somebody's life in your hands is a difficult thing.

The Premier League is not easy for young players because it is very hard, very tough. Most of the players are very tall.

I learned very quickly that the NBA is a very rough place, physically and mentally. There's no mercy.

I would not be worried about the physical aspect of the Premier League. I have scored goals in Argentina, Portugal, and now Spain. I am confident I can adapt my game to any league.

Whoever says basketball ain't a contact sport definitely lied.

In the Premier League, you don't have one second to breathe - you have to be on it from the first minute. If you lose focus - just for a few seconds - the game will pass you by. It's 100 miles an hour.

It's a whole different world once you get into games. You have people actually trying to hit you, the speed of the game's a lot faster, you have a lot of different things you need to check and see. It's a whole different world up there once game time comes.

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There's five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.

I think there's a lot of talent in the Big 12. I think there's a lot of good football teams. It's tough to play in the Big 12.

You can't take a night off in the NBA.

It's a tough league and it's hard to play every game.

Experience is a big thing when playing in the Premier League - it's a different game to any other league.

I'm absolutely enjoying the Premier League, as you can imagine. I knew it was going to be tough. It's the best league in the world and you are up against players who have been in it for years so they know it inside out.

When you play against Athletic, you know there is no easy ball.

You realise you have to be physically strong when you come to the Premier League because it is a very intensive league.

The kind of work I do, there's usually a lot of money on the line; there are jobs on the line. It's not a world that lends itself to everyone being friendly all the time. We're certainly not sitting around holding hands singing 'Kumbaya.'

Big Brother makes a game where it's competitive, not just a handicap match. Mentally, physically, strategically, emotionally, it's an even match. When you compete 100%, it's a real competition.

In the Premier League, every game is tough. Every game is difficult.

As far as I can judge, English football is not for everybody. You need to have the lungs for it, you need to have the strength for it.

The Premier League is what it is. Some people will see the intensity and quality as a great advantage for your players: it will make them better. Some will see it as a disadvantage because the players play at such a high level and such intensity, it's difficult for them to drum that up, that intensity, with a very short space of rest time.

Formula One applies stresses to the mind and body that are very extreme.