Quality of Play Quotes

I don't judge my performance on how many assists I have or how many points I have.

I'm afraid that if they bring the Sonics back, what kind of team are they going to put on the court? Are they going to put the effort out? If they bring the team back, are they going to really put a good team out there? Or do we just want any team?

The league, I think, is doing well. It's growing, it's maturing, and it's becoming a better league.

In my time at Arsenal, we had a really good balance. We had players who were fast, players who were really strong physically, and players who were really creative. When you look at the generation of Arsenal at the moment, they may be playing better football than we used to, but they win less than we used to - so, where's the balance?

I am not hugely concerned about the amount of goals we score - it is the final results that are the difference.

Of course the Premier League is the most difficult league in the world because it's so even. I think you can't really compare other leagues with the Premier League. In the Premier League, every team can beat every team, and in football, that's something where you can have surprises.

It's not about big markets or small markets. It's not about dominant teams or not. It's about the actual competition and how good the games are, how good the series turn out. That's what I think is the most important for fans.

Time control directly influences the quality of play.

As far as being on the officials every five minutes, it's just not good for the game. The officials don't like it; you embarrass them, so it's just not good. Now, every now and then they might make a bad call, but officiating is hard.

I think it is also the most demanding league; the pace of the game in the EPL is something else and rightly for me is maybe the best league in the world.

Whatever sport you're looking at, it's usually the team that makes the least mistakes that has the most success.

You have better players and teams in England, and for myself, it is better to play in a better league against better players.

A lot of the players are very complimentary about each other; they embrace at the end of matches because the level of the tennis has been so good. I think that's something that tennis has got to be proud of.

Foreign players are great for Serie A if they add something extra, but a lot of them are superfluous.

I mean no disrespect to Scottish football, but the Premier League is the biggest stage and highest profile league of all.

The life was good in Qatar but I did not enjoy the football. For me, 12 months was enough. The standard was low, but not that low. It was OK but the ambition was not there from the players. It was like playing for nothing. I didn't like that feeling.

Italian football's different to Spanish and German, but it's only different and not inferior.

If a luxury player is a player who scores and assists and has good stats, then I'm happy to be a luxury player.

When you're playing against a European side, you want to show that we can play too. You want to prove MLS is a good league when you're playing against those teams.

There's always going to be that question going up a division. Can you do it? Are you only good against the players in a lower division?

I think, in general, there are no games in the Premier League where you think, 'Oh, that's an easy one.'

Usually, if I do a good job in the plus/minus category, I know I've had a good game.

When you get to Spurs you know the difference between the lesser clubs and the big boys. It's a different experience.

If you end up at a superior club, you will play with world-class players all over the pitch.

I think we would all prefer to have a slightly shorter regular season with less back-to-back games. This would seem to help put out a better product, and it could also possibly help with injury prevention from over-use injuries.