Quotes About Loyalty

The captains of the national team are the ones that have played the most matches. That's what I had in the national team. Maximum respect to those players.

Yugoslavia is a little country, and everybody likes basketball. If I don't play for my national team, everybody be sad.

The national team comes before everything.

I had a chance to play for the Cuban national team during the 2009 World Baseball Classic, but at the time I never thought about leaving Cuba.

With the national team, we have these fans, people love of us, people come up to us in our cities, and they're like, 'We love you - what are you doing in Seattle?' And I'm like, 'I live here, and I've played here for the last five years.'

For me, coming to the national team is like coming home.

I'm very proud of all the career I've had with the national team.

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

I enjoyed playing for the national team, the French national team, because I think France gave me a lot and gave my family a lot, so to wear the French national team shirt was really good, and I wore it with pride.

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

I have equal respect and love for both England and Ireland, and therefore, the national team I choose to represent is not a clear-cut, simple selection.

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

We're all determined to do whatever it takes to honour the national team jersey.

The national team means you have the nation behind it.

Toni Kroos leaving the German national team would hurt me very much.

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

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 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.

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.

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

For me, I am always hoping to play for the national team.

It's hard to think about the national team when you are with your club side and so invested in your team, your individual self and trying to win a play-off series.

I would like to play for the national team but it's the coach's decision and I have to respect it.