Quotes About Performance

I'll put the Packers' best players on defense. It's best for a team and good for its morale.

I think as a team we do OK with this because we are new and we need the drivers so we appreciate more if they do good for us than an established team, because you know it all and you know this environment here, it's like 'it cannot be me, it must be the driver'.

My main regret about my years in football was keeping my mouth shut like a little mouse, not daring to speak out because I was told you left the managers to get on with the job and that the chairman must never interfere with the manager's decisions or the performance of his team.

My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

My individual role is to take the innings as deep as I can and perform in a way that benefits the team most.

Coaches will say that it's not important for their team to run more, and they prefer to make games the right way. I want to make games only the right way and run 10 km more.

I don't really focus on these things - on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field - stuff like that. My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

Every team should have the chance to go on the podium, that would make it interesting. I believe that.

The face of the team are the people who're playing on the cricket field. The team is not about one individual.

When I first came into baseball, people didn't want to hear that a team was a business. But it is. And the better the business is run, the healthier the team on the field is going to be.

Getting the best out of your best players gets the best out of the team.

I hope I never have to face that feeling of missing and sending my country or team out of a competition.

As long as everyone is having fun, especially our listeners, that's what counts. I try to put my team in the best spot possible for them to win and to deliver a great show to our listeners.

I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.

First, confidence in your talent and then confidence that the team is going to look for you, because they need you. And when you reach that point, it changes a lot, because your mindset is completely different.

The national team is part of my life. I have an incredible history, of many conquests and also many defeats. But to play for Brazil, I have to have a club and play well. I'm not going to be picked on my past or because of my sponsor, as many have said.

I want to feel the team is playing like I want. If not, why am I here?

If you've got one bowler - particularly a fast bowler - who is really aggressive, all over the opposition, he brings the rest of the team along with him.

Every time you play for your country, there is responsibility. But when you are captaining, you can say so; you have to lead from the front and make sure the team follows the direction you want them to.

If a team concedes a goal, then the first question is always of the goalkeeper.

There's nothing more comforting for a team than to know when you need someone to make a play, you have someone who is going to do it when it matters most.

I'm somebody that really locks in to play, and it's not easy to say hello to all the ushers and all the people who work around the team and then try to execute the game plan and beat the other team.

If I believed in it, and it wasn't productive for the team, I wouldn't do it.

I try to give my best for the team, help the team, and try and go out there and play the best I can for myself as well.