Edgar Davids Quotes

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

Of course for your main rivals, you're going to get extra motivated for it, particularly if you haven't played him for a long time.

I'll play as long as that competitive spirit and drive is there because that's what gets me up in the morning, that feeling of having a batsman drive at you, play and miss, the sort of theatre around that sort of stuff.

I've been an athlete and competitor my whole life, and there's nothing more that I get off on than competition.

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.

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.

We at ESPN like competition. It makes us better. It makes us sharper.

There is no life without sport and no sport without competition.

I try to play the best I can every time I play. But there's just some folks that seem to draw a little bit of that extra special out of you.

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.

As a footballer, you always want to test yourself against the best.

When you play against the best, it brings the best out in everybody.

In order to be a star performer you have to have someone to play against.

I love getting out of bed for competition.

When you beat a team so often - especially like this season when Chelsea had already lost three times to us - you know people expect you to do it again. But you also know they're going to be even more motivated to finally win.

Every season is a new challenge to me, and I always set out to improve in terms of games, goals, assists.

I'm used to performing under pressure, but that's playing football.

I love playing under pressure. In fact, if there's no pressure, then I'm not in the perfect zone.

I think pressure is great; it can make the game more exciting and force us to play our best.

We're all trying so hard to win each of these World Series events and the standard now is phenomenal but it's great that everyone's pushing each other.

It's always a battle to play against Diego Costa.

Once you start feeling the pressure, you start to struggle. That is the beauty of Indo-Pak cricket contests.

You always want that as a player, to have that guy on the other side of you that's equally as talented and can make plays. It fuels you a little bit.

It's rule number one, really - beating your teammate.

We pretty much have barnburners with every team. There's always new teams, there's always great teams, and you always want to be in the ring with the best.