Quotes About Teamwork

If I'm playing higher up the pitch, it's important I don't get carried away and start dropping too deep and I stay in my position.

I think it's really important for managers to be liked by his players because ultimately, on the pitch, those players will give everything for their manager.

If I go on to the pitch, do things well and the fans love me and my team-mates, too, we take on that energy which can change a game.

You move around at Fox depending on where they need you. That's what team players do. You pitch in. You know, you make it work.

When things are going well on the pitch, it is because I know I have the coach behind me.

With every side I've played for, I've always tried to fit in and joke with my team mates while enjoying good times with them on and off the pitch. And that's what's happened with Les Bleus.

At Manchester United, we play to win. That's my first mentality when I get onto the pitch. Then everything else comes with it.

I try to be a leader on the pitch rather than off it.

I don't take the ball in the middle of the pitch and dribble past six guys.

It's important on the pitch to have fun, to enjoy the game, because it generates a good feeling around the club.

Messi often has a crowd of opponents around him, but with Neymar on the pitch, too, at least two of those opposition players will have to be aware of him.

I don't like to talk about myself. I don't want to talk about what I do, what I think I do. The position I play on the pitch, I am expected - and I expect - to create chances for my team-mates and score goals.

Before matches, there is a little bit of pressure, but on the pitch, you forget it all. You only think about playing football.

Whether players are from Albania or Yugoslavia is not important. What's important is to be a team on the pitch.

Attackers have to be selfish on the pitch occasionally, but it's important not to exaggerate.

It's always good to have great players around you. You have to battle for your place, and it makes you more hungry on the training pitch, and you know, when you get your chance, you have to take it.

I've learned so much at PSV, not only on the pitch but also as a person.

When I am on the pitch, I don't focus on the opposition fans. I am focused on doing my best for the team.

Other players can be leaders on the pitch, but not all players can understand another player, so I try to. You need to understand the heart of another player. I try to read other people, to figure out how I can joke with this guy, how I can help him or touch his heart.

In a way, the manager plays as big part, but you, as a player, are on the pitch. He cannot make you run if you don't want to; he cannot make you make the right decision in the heat of the moment.

Once you're on the pitch, you play for your team, and you want to win. During the year, you can play against friends - you can play against big friends and close friends - but once you are on the pitch, this friendship goes away, and you just focus on winning the game.

The pitch is always going to be the same lines, same goal height. It's just a game of football.

In football, you can win; you can lose. The most important thing is the feeling and the attitude that you show on the pitch.

It is nice to be playing, being on the pitch, and contributing to the team.