A Quote by Jonathan Agnew

When you are at the top, teams raise their game to play against you, breathing down your neck because they want what you have.

Jonathan Agnew

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Jonathan Agnew
English - Entertainer
Born: April 4, 1960

When big teams play each other, you automatically want to raise your game. You want to see what level you're at, and you know you have to step up.

Edgar Davids

Every season is so much different and you go through your ups and downs, you figure your team out, you get to play against great teams. Some of the best competition there's been since I've been in the league. Just every night, night in and night out we get to play against the top guys, the top teams. It's a lot of fun.

Blake Griffin

I could never get bored talking about him, he was my favourite player. I loved watching him because he did everything you'd want to see in a footballer. He could dictate the pace of a game; he could take it by the scruff of the neck and control it; he could score decisive goals; he could make the killer pass; he could switch the play, open teams up, slow the game down, quicken it up; whatever was needed. He would take the ball anywhere on the pitch He was such a selfless footballer, too Scholesy was the man, all right.

Rio Ferdinand

I want to be the top player in the league, and I want to bring my game to another level. I want to play against the opposition's best players-and I want to beat them.

Jarome Iginla

When you play teams that are good defensively and teams that have been there with experience, the object is to keep the goals against down.

Darren McCarty

Your unconscious can't work when you are breathing down its neck.

Anne Lamott

I constantly caution our teams: 'Play your game, just play your game. Eventually, if you play your game, stick to your style, class will tell in the end.' This does not mean that we will always outscore our opponent, but it does insure that we will not beat ourselves.

John Wooden

It would be a pleasure to play against England. They are one of the top teams.

Dejan Lovren

You want to play in the best stadiums against the best players - your Real Madrid's and Barcelona's - you want to play those teams.

Jermain Defoe

I was on top of Keanu Reeves, he was on his back and I was on my trunk, and I was breathing down his neck for hours and hours. It was... very erotic.

Hugo Weaving

Always, against top teams, if you play well, and especially in the Champions League, it's good.

Mousa Dembele

It's been great to play against the top teams in the world, it can only benefit me.

Sean Longstaff

I don't pick tournaments to score or rivals or other teams to score against. I'm a striker: every game I play, I want to score.

Diego Costa

When you play Futures and Challengers for three, four years, you're playing in obscurity. You play the game for other reasons. You don't play the game for money or attention. You play the game because you like to play. You play the game because you enjoy the journey.

Tennys Sandgren

I don't just get bogged down in, 'I want to win.' There's something even greater than that. And that's the way that you play the game. I want to play beautiful football. That's our purpose: to go out and play the game at the highest level, play it the right way.