Quotes About Players

At Real Madrid, there will always be people who score goals. They are a team and not a single player, no matter how much one appears more than another.

A lot of things have changed since I made my debut in 2004. The way cricket is played has changed. The kind of players that are coming in the Indian team are drastically different than what we were used to. My role is quite the same. You only evolve with time, and that's what I am trying to do.

There's a lot of money coming in, and so a lot of good players are going to each team, so every game is a fight, but on the other hand, it's good to get a good, competitive league.

At Real Madrid, we have many good players that the team can learn from.

All Spanish players want to play for the national team.

When I talk to my colleagues from the national team, they always talk to me about Real Madrid.

I thought I was going to stay at City, but when a team like Lyon comes in for you, I think I'd have regretted it if I had said no to them. Not just because of making finals, but because of the players I get to play with every single day.

Of course, I want to play every game but you have to accept rotations and understand that other players are in good form. Football's a team game.

You cannot buy players and know, for sure, that they can deliver. You cannot know because football is a team sport.

In my regular life, I am very involved in commissions for cities and sometimes countries. And I think of public art as a team sport. The outcome is only possible with the interaction of all the players.

I feel my overall skill set, my ability to make players around me better, and my ability to help my team win is unique.

We had a reward system and a protection system. We would reward players for big plays, things that can help your team win. And then also, we paid guys money for protection, especially guys who couldn't protect themselves and especially offensive players.

Some of the guys in the Eastern Conference, I had never been on their teams - like Larry Bird: even though you make the All Star team, you're going to be in the West; he's on the East. So you're never going to be teammates.

I have great memories of my years in Edmonton and the players who were my teammates.

I want to see if the player communicates with his teammates and how he responds to coaching. Another thing to remember is players' bodies can develop better than their skills.

I think my ability coming into the NBA is going to make it that much easier for me with the space and the different type of players here. I think just by the spacing alone is going to make my game that much easier and that much better for my teammates.

Of course, in the beginning it's always difficult. It's a new country, new teammates, so you need to find the relationship with all the players. Obviously it takes time.

We have a unique format that allows for coaching of players during the matches. We have a team aspect so your teammates are there on the bench cheering you on.

I notice that teams are now more interested in Japanese players than when I first went to Europe.

Let's say that the teams I played in were all excellent. I played with many, many great players and incredible teams.

Teams want fast players. That's not me. But I know my strengths.

I would tell players to relax and never think about what's at stake. Just think about the basketball game. If you start to think about who is going to win the championship, you've lost your focus.

I think sometimes when it comes to sports, and especially relationships between players and coaches, that people lose track, lose a sense of reality.

Because Microsoft seems to sometimes not trust customer choice, they salt XP with all these little gizmos and trap doors to get people to try Microsoft stuff. But the reality is that we're downloading more players than we ever have on a worldwide basis.