Urijah Faber Quotes

As a competitor, you have to learn pretty quickly how to deal with pressure.

I love a challenge and when a new centre-back comes in it makes you raise your game. You have to show more, you have to be more consistent.

The bottom line is that it's the NFL, and there's going to be competition wherever you go. That's the way I look at it. I've had competition in high school. I've had competition in college, and that's part of the game. That's part of how you improve as a quarterback.

You learn from playing against the best players and the best teams, and we're going to keep fighting and figuring out ways to beat them.

Acting is like a game of tennis. The better your opponent, the better you're going to play.

The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.

When you're young, you develop ways to win, and you think they will always work, but then you get to the top, competing against the other top athletes, and sometimes things don't work.

When you are small, and you have to try and prove yourself, it is tough. When others are catching up and copy you, that's tough. We constantly need to change ourselves to stay ahead of the game.

It's tougher when you're established. Before, I'd see 13, 14, 15 pitches that I could drive in a game. Now, I see one, two or three, so I have to be better.

A lot of things change in the playoffs.

Every lap is different.

Once you are on court, everything is different. I focus on the match.

To play with pressure is always a good thing. I like to play with pressure.

In training, you can push yourself to the limit and test yourself against the best players in the world. That is when the pressure is really on, and they are the moments when you either improve, or you don't.

During the season, you just grind, it's a cat-and-mouse game.

I spar in the gym, and I take pride in my sparring. But I'm a better fighter when the lights come on because it's right now - there is no tomorrow.

I'm just fighting a lot of high-level guys. I feel everyone is trying to be tactical, everyone is trying to put their A-game out there, and I have to find a way to win. I'm all about moving on and trying to get better.

I like a little pressure. That's how football goes.

Age is not really the biggest factor, whichever end of the scale you are at. It's how you perform, how you respond to the challenge of having good players around you competing for your place.

If you're a competitor, this is what you want. You want all of the games to have meaning, context and to be the best competition.

In cricket, there is a lot of psychology in the game, especially if you are watching people who are not top-class.

Quarterback and cornerback are two of the hardest positions to play on the field, so yeah, you're going to get beat, you're going to throw interceptions, you're going to get sacked, you're going to miss throws. Stuff like that is going to happen. That's something you've been prepping for your whole life playing the position.

Being at NDSU and winning national championships, everyone's gunning for you. You got a big target on your back, and we had to be ready to go week in and week out. I think playing for a program like that, everyone's going to give you their best shot, and we embrace that.

Whenever teams play against Senegal, they want to do really well, and each challenge is always different.

When I'm in the ring with somebody like Puma, it really forces me to level up and rise to the top of my game. It's sometimes just face-melting, the kind of stuff that he can do.