Henrikh Mkhitaryan Quotes

I'm putting constant pressure on my opponents and really dictating play.

Once Liverpool go ahead, they are dangerous because it becomes hard to find space to break them down, especially if you are not playing all that brilliantly.

My advantage is attacking, regardless of who's in front of me. That's my advantage. And I've got to use my advantage to help my team and help myself.

You may have to change how you guard somebody because of how they play. But the mindset stays the same - making people uncomfortable, making them do what you want them to do instead them dictating on offense.

You always have to put pressure on an opponent.

I feel like I need to find ways to disrupt the other team and apply that pressure they might not be used to. I think being able to set that tone is something I'm priding myself on.

I'm not a big guy that watches technique from my opponents. I try to do what I do best and hope that my stuff is better than their best stuff.

I go hunting for my opponents high up the field, and I put stock in physical one-on-ones and winning individual duels.

The basic premise of my system is to fatigue your opponents with constant pressure defensively and constant movement offensively.

When it comes to playoff time, the game slows down, the offense slows down and you've got to be able to get stops.

Momentum is everything in this league.

I need to be playing well, be involved in the game, and taking matches by the scruff of the neck.

People have to fear England and not want to play us. The only way of doing that is to play at a high tempo and win games.

My strategy is just to always compete. Even if they catch 10 balls on me, I make sure that they have to fight for every one of those. That's worked for me.

I can dominate a game at any point.

You have to be savvy. You have to be tactically aware, because that's what makes the difference in the big matches.

You do everything you can to be successful. You know that you have to win games. It's a must. So you do the things that put your guys in the best position to be successful schematically.

Momentum is a whole lot in the game of basketball. People dwell on momentum, but that really does matter.

At the highest level, if you don't have a solid defensive base, you can't get by. In one match, yes. But over a whole competition? No.

What I really lick my chops for is when you get the offensive rebounds at the end of the third quarter, fourth quarter. That really just sucks the life out of the opponent. You can see it in their face, especially when you're on the road, it just takes the whole energy out of the arena. That's what I live for.

Whenever I get matched up with a guy, I always look at who beat him and I've got to be better than those guys.

My job is to just make winning plays when I'm out on the court, and hopefully we're winning. That's all I want.

In football you need to look to make life difficult for the opponent.

We were super successful under Mark Sampson because teams didn't expect us to play the way we played. We were so direct and played to people's strengths.

I chose Juventus for their winning mindset.