Quotes About Teamwork

If I see someone I think is in a better position than me, it is better for me to give the ball. Now I shoot more at goal. When I was young, they sometimes said to me, 'You need to shoot more. You try to give it too much.' It is something that I learned. To try to take the best option.

There are times when you might have a bad training session or a bad day, and although I would often go to a team-mate to have a chat if that were the case, it's also great to have the option of expressing your thoughts in a journal if you don't want to bother anyone.

I know it is difficult to play in a big club like Manchester United as a No. 10 because you know how many goals you have to score to play there. So I thought I had to add something to my game. I had to give more options to the manager.

If we do the build-up so well, it's because our players always offer me different options to pass the ball, so that makes it easier. With calm and with quality on the pass, it always works out. Of course, you need to have the courage and be very cool to play that way, because any mistake can end up in a goal conceded.

In 50over cricket there are different ways of playing. It's not all about smacking it over the top. It's important someone bats through the innings. That would be one of the options for me.

'Orange' is fun. Even when we're doing super-intense, emotional, or physical stuff, we're having fun. We're checking in with each other; we know about each other's lives and know each other's families and relationships. We're really friends.

When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30.

I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor.

The orchestra confides in me about their music director or their conductor, and I've never seen a conductor that's been liked by everyone.

Playing in an orchestra is where I learned the most about music.

There's nothing worse than working with an orchestra who looks down on working with a conductor who doesn't want to conduct for you. You need to be with an orchestra that can follow you and respect you.

The new leader is a facilitator, not an order giver.

What I know about me is that, in order to lead, you also have to know how to follow.

I think 'director' is a very broad term. I like to think of myself as the head collaborator, not the director, because I think, for a lot of people, 'director' connotes giving orders and telling people what to do.

Coaching a football player is the same as directing an actor. The guy has to follow orders and be able to perform skillfully.

The healthiest companies are always characterized by organic talent development.

I'm down to work with anyone as long as it's an organic collaboration.

I always run inclusive and successful organisations.

The beginning of everything is our defensive organisation. The clean sheet is always the first objective that we have in the game. Always.

Organisations and institutions are, at the end of the day, manned by people who put their shared vision above individual interests.

Even when you are not having the ball, you have to stay consistent, organised, and that's what keeps you in the game.

I think, in football, you need to be competitive. You need quality. You need to be organised and to push.

I need to be coming off the pitch every game with my voice gone, and that's something I can bring. I am just someone who likes to organise, make sure everything is well organised, because that makes it a lot easier for yourself too.

My friend Adam gave me my first chance to play in an organised match, for Steventon, when I was 10. The team were one player short, and I joined in. I had never played before, but I came on and scored a perfect hat-trick: header, left foot, right foot.