Declan Rice Quotes

When I got to the senior national team, there was another Ronaldo, so they started calling me Ronaldinho because I was younger.

Coming to Crystal Palace, I'm really excited to be playing. There's still massive competition here.

We are Italy. It's only right that there is competition in attack, like there is in every other role.

Competition is to be expected at a club like Arsenal.

There's always competition in the national team.

There's a lot of good midfielders all desperate to play for their country and all I can do when I get called up is prove that I deserve to be there.

It's hard in England. If I didn't score for three games, there was the chance someone would take my place or I would be loaned out.

I'm always trying to win my place back in the national team.

There are not many times when I get nervous, but I do a little bit with penalties.

I always say that I need competition, and I need competition every week, and in Spain, I was at an amazing club, but I had four matches a year: Barcelona v Real Madrid, Real Madrid v Barcelona, and after that, we'd win 4-0, 5-0, 4-1, 6-1.

In the Premier League you know you'll play a certain amount of matches so you can always think 'I'll put it right next week' if you lose.

Anything can happen in the Clasico.

Just gotta try to have fun. It's a business. You just gotta come out there and play hard because you never know when another player might take your spot.

Whether it's the Premier League or the Champions League, I can showcase my abilities.

What I love the most is playing with Argentina.

You want the best players to be on form come the Euros.

At City it is very hard to get into that first team.

I have had to work hard to get in the starting XI for England.

I've dealt with expectations my whole life and have been blessed to be able to play at a high level, whether it's football or baseball.

When you end the European Championship the best goal-scorer in your own country, you show the world that you have the shoulders to handle the pressure.

Any player would want to be involved in games against Argentina.

When you play at City with top players, you don't have a guaranteed place in the starting eleven.

I started this job in 1995, and I felt the same pressure in my first day, with my first team, Reggiana, in the Second Division, as I feel now. Nothing has changed, but what changes are the number of games, especially for top teams. For this reason, the work has pressure. But only this.

There are a lot of players that want to go to the World Cup, so you have to be the player that goes out and performs and shows how much you want to go.

Kicking's kicking. Pressure's pressure. You beat other guys just to get drafted.