Quotes About Responsibility

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

Playing for the national team is not the same as playing for your club.

A coach - any coach, not just a national team coach - should try to be exemplary. And a national team manager even more so.

I don't put any extra pressure on myself for national team games.

I am very proud to be the captain of the German national team.

Of course there's going to be expectations when you're playing well in the national team. But you just have to deal with that.

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.

It is hard to enjoy life in a national team.

I've been the captain at Ajax and once for the national team - it's nice and makes you an important player.

I feel at home and very happy with the national team. Even with the responsibility, I am very proud I can go and be in that environment.

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

In the national team, the armband always goes to the player with the most caps.

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

It's not easy to carry forward the national team because you have a whole country behind you. But I would be willing to take charge of the Argentina national team.

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

Playing as captain of Juve and the national team, with 500 games for Juve and 100 for the national team, it gives you a different serenity.

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

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

I think we have a big responsibility as the U.S. women's national team for women's football globally. I think everyone kind of looks up to us, whether they say they do or not. I think there is this awe and curiosity about what we've done in order to become as successful as we have.

Since June of 1981, between school and the national team, I haven't had much time to spend with myself or my family.

The world is full of nations that are part of the community of nations that don't respect rights.

America has to act. But, when America acts, other nations accuse us of being 'hegemonistic', of engaging in 'unilateralism', of behaving as if we're the only nation on earth that counts. We are.