Shikhar Dhawan Quotes

We were brothers off the field, but there was no love lost on it. We fought like cats and dogs. Wes was always trying to strike me out, and meantime, I was always trying to hit a home run off him.

Look around. There are no enemies here. There's just good, old-fashioned rivalry.

We all started playing football against our best friends, and I can't remember a moment where, because it was my best friend, I did not want to win against him.

It's always hard to find the best friends in the locker room because we are all competing against each other - but the real friends you are going to definitely find off the court because we are competitors in between.

We could spend time together during the day and just kind of talk and enjoy each other and enjoy the moment. But it was interesting we both knew that once you walk through the gates of that stadium, then it was on, the game was on.

People can be great competitors on Sunday and mates on Monday.

It's always interesting to be playing against some of my best friends and some of my longtime teammates. You get to see them before the game and after the game and it's always nice to catch up but when the whistle blows it's sort of all business on the field.

Tennis is such an individual and competitive sport, but it is great being part of a team and getting to know the girls outside of tennis - even though we are all competing for the same thing!

I played against a lot of guys, a lot of good players, and I remember those guys. They're friends now. They weren't then. You wanted to beat them.

When you are playing, you play as rivals. When off the field, we are friends. I feel that's a good thing. That's the beauty of IPL.

I do not hate them or anything. I have a lot of respect for Real Madrid, but I always want to beat them.

I'm only doing my job, and if I score against Mark Hughes' team, it's nothing personal.

I don't have no issue with any guy. I'm a football player. I'm a competitor. When we're in the field, we're going to compete and be competitive. It's not personal between none of these guys. It's all in the game.

Even if we were friends, I consider this a sport, a competition, so there are no ill feelings towards any other fighter or whatever.

I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries.

I had 10 to 12 close buddies who I played ball with all the way from elementary to high school. That is where I learned to compete.

Because, they're only thinking about one team when that game's over. Before the game, they're talking about two football teams. When the game's over, there's only one winner.

In summer, my Sundays are often taken up with cricket. I play with a bunch of other over-competitive and overenthusiastic guys who I have known for a very long time.

I believe in competition.

I think it is possible to be friends even if you're competing. You know, there's so many guys in rooms that try to psych each other out, and it doesn't work. It only hinders their work.

We're sympathetic, but once you step on the field, football's football.

We're all just playing our own game. I don't see it as a rivalry. We're just trying to play our best.

Once you're on the field, you're playing. You're not worried about anything other than doing your job to help your team.

There's a fiercely competitive rivalry between myself and Virat Kohli - but also enormous mutual respect.

I didn't get along with most of the players I played against, but the one guy I did get along with was my greatest rival, so it can be done.