Quotes About Team

I've got a great support system, starting with my wife and family, to my agent, my instructor, and my mental coach.

Moving to England, again it's a new language to learn, and I've got to get use to the mentality, the culture, but I think I've integrated myself really well into this team, and I'm happy so far.

I heard my new team-mates saying, 'We have got to hope that we don't go down.' I thought to myself, 'What kind of a mentality is that?'

I think if I have that team mentality, then my individual growth will shine as it did in college.

I understand the mentality of a jock.

Every time I have the ball in my hands, which is every play, I feel I'm the best player on the team. That's just my mentality. I'm not saying that in a cocky way, but everybody should have that mentality when they step on that field.

When you have a team that has won for 20 years, the mentality is strong. When you don't play well, you still know you are a strong team.

You create a big-club mentality with the trust of the players, the trust that the team will get results, and then, when results are not good, the trust to continue with your idea.

When there's a team mentality, that's what I enjoy. I enjoy when it takes several people to come together to win a game.

It's mentally draining to be on 100% of the time on both ends of the floor, especially when you're the team's undisputed shot creator.

If you're not ready mentally, it can hurt your team just as much physically.

The pride you feel when you represent your country, not to mention scoring, is something you can't really explain. It's massive.

After I was invited to take over the Selecao, one of the first things I did was to call Marcelo and Thiago Silva. I wanted to get a feel for the players and we did not mention what had gone on in the past, that is behind us.

It doesn't do much good to have a quality image, whether it's with the facility or whether it's with the merchandise, if you don't have real quality people taking care of your customers.

Guys on Team U.S.A. were calling me Iggy just to mess with me. I've been called that since I was a kid. I don't care.

Messi is so good that he can win La Liga even with a mediocre team, which is not the case. Barca remain up top every year because of him.

I'm Messi Football Club.

Barcelona is the best club in the world, and I am looking forward to playing with some of the best players in the world, such as Luis Suarez and Lionel Messi. I will do everything possible to contribute to this team.

Messi would never tell a coach who he has to play or not. I think he not only lacks the power to do that but also is not humanly capable of saying that.

Barca are the favourites because they have a better team and have the best player in the world, who is Messi.

When I came to Barcelona, I knew - I knew Neymar, Messi, and Suarez were in the team.

Messi always gets us out of trouble, and we're not going to apologise for having him.

Everything would have been different for Barcelona without Messi.

When Messi plays the ball, everybody expects many things from him. Sometimes it's too much because we have to let Messi breathe a bit.