Big Quote by Edgar Davids

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

When you put better teams in front of you, that's when the big players rise to that occasion.

— Michael Owen

You see it all the time, in all divisions, that teams raise themselves and apply themselves that little bit more when they play a…

— Adebayo Akinfenwa

When you bring in high-level players it brings the competition up and makes everyone work harder to get into the team.

— Reece James

It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the…

— Cal Hubbard

When you play teams that are better than you, you begin to play better too, because if you don?t, then they basically run over…

— Jessica Simosa

When you go out there every single night playing against the other team, you want to have people who's going with you and who's…

— Dennis Schroder

When a team plays you by pressing so high, if you do not take advantage, they grow in their field, with their atmosphere and…

— Sergio Busquets

If you look at any league, they're all trying to figure out how to make the game more exciting, speed the game up, whatever…

— Brian France

You want to build your own team for the highest level, and that happens more with teams that stay together.

— Edwin van der Sar

I think it is a sign that the team cares about the game and everyone else on the team and the coaching staff. Everyone…

— Eric Bledsoe

That's the thing with top players, the higher you go up, the more you want. You want to push your body, push your mind,…

— Sol Campbell