Gareth Southgate Quotes

That's what I want to do, to go out and perform back to the levels I know I'm capable of, the levels you can produce with consistent games and to win football matches.

Like I said, when you have to play against a great player every night, that defines who you are if you can compete on that same level night in and night out.

The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.

Whenever I have played a game of cricket, whether it is under-16, under-19, or State level, my approach has been the same.

Games bring another level out in you. There is no way you can train to the same intensity when you are playing a game. It is just impossible. Your head won't allow you to do it. Because the adrenalin of a game and the importance of it steps it up to another level.

People expect you to play your best, so I go through a routine to prepare myself so that I know I'm physically and mentally ready - prepared for the game.

You can't give away points and games against someone like Murray. You're not going to make it to the top with that kind of effort.

Obviously you want to play hard all the time, but at different moments of the game you step it up even more.

We always have great practices, and the competition is high, and the intensity is high; it's just about doing that now in a game and sustaining it for 48 minutes.

I can't be getting off my game. I need to be getting teams off their games.

I need to continue to be wise, be efficient and prepared for every game that I play leading up to the Olympics.

When I do get in the game, just getting me going. How do you get me going? If that's running plays or things where I can impact and get going. But once I'm in the flow, I'm in the flow. It's hard to get me out of that.

There's a lot of different ways of playing quarterback, and there's a lot of different situations. So that's why, for me, if I can keep my mindset the same, if I can stay consistent in how I prepare, then I'm good.

Anybody plays a good match, you can beat anybody on a given day.

You take it one game at a time because it's the most important game of the season.

One of the biggest things I've worked on is how to play my best tennis every single time I walk on to the court.

You have to play your 'A' game in every single match and that's a good thing.

By the time you get to the conference finals, you can't hide. It's not like your opponent is going to be experienced on how to try to exploit you. You have to have the right kind of habits and hopefully have been tested enough in those habits... to be able to still get to your identity.

Over the season you have waves. It is very hard to go through the whole season at the same standard and winning games in the same way.

I don't put any extra pressure on myself for national team games.

That's what defines the best athletes: being capable of showing up year after year at the highest level.

That's what tournament football's all about. It's about finding your feet in the first game, finding what works, and gaining confidence.

I played pretty well in my twenties, don't get me wrong! But my consistency is better [in my thirties], my momentum is better, my wins are quicker.

The way I operate as a football player and the product that I put on the field in relation to the business that I conduct, I want it to be as tough as possible in practice so when I get into the games I've been there before.

The tennis calendar is incredibly long, so it's normal to go through ups and downs, and you want to keep the ups as long as possible and the downs as short as possible. You have to be realistic with what you're doing.