Quotes About Teamwork

David Silva at Man City was my favourite player to play with; we had a good understanding on the pitch.

Stephen Ireland is one of the most talented players I have seen, and Nigel de Jong is doing really well. He fights for his team all over the pitch, and he has a lot of character.

Teams always have natural leaders on the pitch and natural leaders in footballing terms.

How are you supposed to communicate on the pitch when you don't off it?

I always try to perform, and not because you have players on the bench or on the pitch that can play in your position.

I am feeling very well so long as I am out there on the pitch with my team-mates.

When you are playing Under-17 or U-19, the captain is of the same age as the rest of us. His knowledge was also as limited as the other players, so there was greater responsibility on the bowlers to understand themselves and their bowling, read the pitch, and set fields accordingly.

I want to be on the pitch, whether it is for someone else or for Leicester.

Good teams, whatever the circumstances or the atmosphere or the pitch, find a way of playing.

We are footballers, so if you've got to play with someone, you've got to play with them. What happens off the pitch, well, you can't get on with everyone you work with.

Every time I step on the pitch, I think about winning and putting on a performance that ensures my team comes out on top.

When you get the relationships right and get to know each other, it really translates onto the pitch.

I could play anywhere. I played everywhere on the pitch for United, apart from No. 9 or keeper.

I work hard every week and when I come off the pitch after each game I like to think I've done everything possible to help my team.

What matters is that on the pitch we give the maximum to prove that money is not everything.

Everyone thinks that footballers go on the pitch and they have so much money that they think about themselves. But I am not like that.

When I'm sitting on the bench, I try to help the players who are out on the pitch.

The way we're going... if I called up another pitcher, he'd just hang up the phone on me.

The oldest pitcher acquires confidence in his ballclub - he doesn't try to do it all himself.

I like that the pitcher hits. I think that my feeling is that everybody should play a position. In order to hit, you have to play a position. That's just my view of it. I feel that's more baseball, and the games are managed different. I enjoy the National League, how it's played.

I like my friends to be the hitters. The pitchers, they all have the same brain as I do. The hitters see the game from a different perspective.

You have to play defense for the pitchers.

You figure when you match up against other clubs and you go through the lineup one through nine, you get to the nine hole, if you can put together an at-bat or you can see some different pitches that helps give you an advantage competitively, it can make your lineup stronger.

I'll win more games playing everyday in the outfield than I will pitching every fourth day.