Michael Chiesa Quotes

I don't just study my opponent; I study myself. It's something you have to do to get better.

We are really competing against ourselves, we have no control over how other people perform.

For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in.

Just make the right estimation of your own strengths and weaknesses, and also that of your opponent.

Melo has a chance to be a better player than me, for sure. I feel at the same age, he's better than me. In real time, I don't think he's better than me. But I'm the big brother so I'm always going to have that edge over him.

You always have to put pressure on an opponent.

Yes, we have to look at our opponents and study our opponents. But you have to look at you first and know you can do it.

Djokovic against Tsonga in 2008 is not the same as in 2010. He knows that I can play well and he knows that I can beat him if he's not at his best.

The way you adapt and play against different teams and different styles is going to be important.

Every time I go out there, I just try to find the weakness of my opponent and then use that to my advantage.

If you have an opponent who is clearly better than you, then OK, you have something to analyse.

I treat every camp the same. Every fight since my debut has always been a must-win.

If teams play Bayern, they bring another attitude to the pitch than if they play teams who are not Bayern.

Football is a game based on emotion and intelligence. Anyone can be clever, the trick is not to think the other guy is stupid.

Benchmark your performance against your best competitors. Think how you can beat them next time.

I don't go into a game with specific targets. I don't pinpoint an opposing player before a match, trying to exploit a kind of weakness.

I go into every fight trying to win as easy as I can.

I played Zidane throughout my career, and for many players you reach a point where you learn lessons on how to handle them. But from the first match I played against him to the last, Zidane would find different ways to beat me.

I'm in competition with myself, and I'm always going to challenge myself.

If we're winning, that's all that matters to me. If we're winning, I'll be happy. And that can help me grow.

When you are younger, you always question yourself when you come across players of a higher calibre.

Maybe for a guy like Zverev or Federer, you could say it's open a bit. For a guy like me, every match is tough, and I'm going to have to battle it out.

I don't really think in terms of competing with myself.

I am still better than lots of players.

We didn't do much different against LeBron. We were just more active and more competitive.