Georginio Wijnaldum Quotes

I was never the most technical; I was never the best at one aspect at this sport, but what I was always good as was negating people's strengths and putting them in terrible situations where they're uncomfortable.

I try to exploit things against everybody; that's part of the game: beat the guy that guards me while you're beating their team.

Knowing your opponent is fundamental. Because then you can know their characteristics better.

I never really have a game plan other than to finish my opponent as quickly as possible.

I don't adjust my training for any of my opponents. I don't watch films on my opponents.

I want to play the game hard. I want to ram it down your throat, put you into left field when I'm going into second base.

A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.

You can’t pick your opponent and you can’t predict what the other side is going to do.

What you end up doing is you try to match your guy's strength against a place they can be successful. They're doing the same thing against us. Sometimes they have the edge, sometimes you have the edge.

We want to go 100 miles per hour and cause confusion for the defense. It can be a lot of fun.

As a player you always feel the pressure and as a team you are always trying to make sure the opposition are under it.

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 just feel like when I come up against another team, I'll always look at their best players and I'll think, if I can stop these doing what they are doing, then I'll get noticed and I'll help the team as well.

The teams that you come across, they are not physically super-human, they are just very good. So it is asking what do we about that. How do we take on the challenge?

At the end of the day, it's me versus you, and I'm trying to get you out. If I can throw you six curveballs in a row and get you out, I'm going to do it all day.

You have to know your opponent and take him out of his game.

Every time I get in the ring, I have to give 110 per cent because my opponents have nothing to lose and everything to gain, so I have to make sure I go in there with my A-game and come away with the victory.

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

When I'm training, I cater a little bit to my opponents.

I try to be two or three steps ahead of my guy, my opponent.

The No. 1 thing is you want to be able to win the game, and we're going to do whatever we have to do to win the game.

I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.

Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.

If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose.

Find out what the other team wants to do. Then take it away from them.