Quotes About Dedication

It's a long, hard, difficult process to make it to a national championship.

There's no greater feeling, I would imagine, than winning a national championship in that one year and then hopefully going to the NBA.

Getting to the national team is very complicated.

I still feel like that girl making my first junior national team. And here I am 12 years in.

I am very happy to have been called up by the national team. It's indeed another achievement in my career and I've worked a lot and very hard for this moment.

I just want to do well with the national team.

I don't want to get to a point where I consider the national team a club team.

Of course when you are starting to be a coach you want to do your best and my national team is my dream.

Playing for the national team is always an honour. We must make the most of every opportunity.

Without sounding biased, 70 days of football is not enough. Even if Messi plays 70 days he cannot be in the national team. You need to play around the year to be in contention for the national team.

Of course I have ambitions, even if I don't play for the national team.

The national team comes before everything.

A player should be disparaged if he gives less than his all, if he doesn't give 100%, no matter what shirt he's wearing. Whether it's your national team, your club, or little league. Yes, there are friendly matches, recreational ones, and so on, but sport in its essence is about giving your best.

Everyone wants to be in the national team so I will have to give it my best.

You can be one inch from the national team and the opportunity to make so much money and a life out of it. That's why people hang on so long.

Being called up to the national team is about going with them, playing the best you possibly can, and trying to win. That's how I understand it.

It's hard to be as good as Ronaldinho and Ronaldo were, but we're going to do our best, both myself and Philippe Coutinho, to get close to them and be the best players we can be for the Brazilian national team.

Being able to play at club level at a high level and then getting called into the national team, it's amazing.

I love playing with the national team. I love being here as much as I can.

I try to show myself at Liverpool, and when I come to the national team, I try to show myself in training or in games.

For me, it's important to perform in my club and with the national team as well.

What one does in one's club is what determines whether one gets called up for the national team.

I can't play for the national team if I'm not playing for my club.

I'm always trying to win my place back in the national team.