Quotes About Dedication

With a national team, you've just got to be even more focused on what's most important because the time you've got with the players is limited.

The national team was like a second family for me. I will always carry those 13 years of my life in my heart.

It is hard to enjoy life in a national team.

To be called up to the national team is what you want.

I'll do anything to get a place in the national team.

The national team requires a work commitment but also a personal one as well. To lead your country is something very different.

Every player wants to be there in the national team.

I've done a lot of great things playing for this country and this national team in the youth stage.

It won't matter who starts and who plays, the most important thing is the Egyptian national team and we will do our best.

An invitation to the national team is not a declaration of love.

Being captain of the national team is definitely something you can feel.

If you don't concentrate during a national team match you can just as easily get injured, so I want to make sure I can focus.

I want to be successful with the national team and Bayern.

Every time I went to play for my national team, we spent together two months away from our families, as a team.

I will keep playing for the national team until I feel I can't offer them anything.

I'm more than ready if the national team coach needs me.

I wasn't drafted. I was just playing really good basketball, enjoying playing basketball with my national team and never really thought: 'I have to get to the NBA.'

I feel I have the Juve shirt sewn to my body because I breathe it every day, but wearing the national team shirt is also an honour.

Playing for the national team, you are aware that a whole country wants you to succeed, but you mustn't get side-tracked.

When I was younger, I showed my nation that I would always play for my national team, no matter who was there. If we had a good team or a bad team, I was there.

I spent a lot of time in the national team and I love playing for my country.

I have always fought to play for great clubs and to play for the Brazilian national team.

You don't get called up to the national team because you tell good jokes, you are funny, you are handsome or because you are Messi's friend. You are called up because you have a role at your given club and you have personality.

When the national team plays there shouldn't be club games going on.