I think the toughest job in football is always to be the starter, because everybody looks to you for guidance.
With the Selecao, every substitute is a starter in their club teams, so the competition is always top notch.
Everybody wants to be a starter, and I feel like I'm a starter in this league, but I can't necessarily control that.
If you are going to be a starter in the NFL or a major-college program, you are going to have to beat out other great quarterbacks.
Being able to put the film out there that I did and prove that I can be a starter in this league, it's put me in a good situation.
Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
Chelsea is a big club, a club that has given me the opportunity to play as a starter, to grow even more.
I was a starter and did some good things there, and then I got a chance to prove myself as a closer. Because of that opportunity, I was blessed with the honor of being elected to the Hall of Fame.
I want to be a starter in this league.
When you're the starter, there are certain things that you're able to do as far as leading and stuff like that. So, really having to kind of take a step back in a leadership role I would say is the toughest role for me.
When you step on the field, you want to be a starter. You want to be the person everybody looks to and says, 'If we need a play to be made, let's go to him.'
Obviously I want to be a starter and to win things with Real Madrid.
We need three kinds of pitching: left handed, right handed, and relief.
Of all the years playing football, I have never felt like an undisputed starter - that would be an error.
Yeah the appetizer, that's the food we eat before we have our food...No no you're thinking of dessert, that's food we eat after we have our food.
It's a different mind-set going into the off-season as a starter. The uncertainty from the team is gone, and your confidence grows.
You have to understand that in this league, we are all one play removed from being the starter or from being the backup, in any game.
Every linebacker that plays in the NFL wants to be a starter.
No one wants to be known as a six-inning guy.
Nick Foles, if he wasn't preparing like he was the starter, he wouldn't have been able to become a Super Bowl MVP.
Guys that are playing in the preseason are one play away from being a starter.
I feel like I've proven that I can be a starter in this league, and I want to be respected in that way.
