Pele Quotes

You can see the players are world-class just by the way they pass the ball. Ozil, Sanchez, and Cazorla, for example, are huge personalities. Even though the club maybe spent more money on me, I can still learn a lot from them in any respect.

I was a team captain, I was the guy for the first couple years. And then all of the sudden I was just the backup. It wasn't easy. I think it would be easy to bow my head and feel sorry for myself, but I knew as a captain I had to be a great teammate.

I think me making the Select Team was huge. It was the chance for me to be around those guys and see their work ethic and how they prepare. I think that's what I took the most away from it.

I've learned so much whether it was, I played a lot of team sports, so being part of a team, learning how to be a leader on different teams, and how to deal with the ebb and flow of different games.

That was something I probably had to go through, a learning curve in terms of trying to develop into the captain I want to be.

I think I constantly refer back to some of the things that I learned in New England and throughout my career. It was a great stepping stone, and it also gave me time to mature as a player and as a quarterback.

Dorchester was probably the most important spell. I got kicked around a lot. I was young and it helped me mature as a man and a footballer.

If you are captain of a great team like Paris St-Germain there are lots of players like Zlatan, players who are known by everybody. So to be captain of that team gives you respect and, in football, respect is very important.

I've had to change my game a lot - try to play the right way, try to do the right things, try to be the glue guy for the team for the most part.

That's the hardest part, getting out of my comfort zone and doing more in the public, for the kids or for the team. That's not the type of person I am. I'm trying to mature and work on that.

I just want to be part of a team and get a chance to play a lot.

I'm more mature, my game is more mature, and I can do a bunch of things on and off the court to fully maximize this team's potential.

I think the growth you get from working at a place like Alabama and with a program under Nick Saban, it helps me immensely.

I love keeping. I'm in the game all the time. I see angles that I wouldn't normally see, and I feel part of what the captain does.

Me being young, I'm going to definitely mess up a lot more than I'm going to make the right play, but I want my teammates to be able to trust me and look at me as a veteran guard trying to run the team.

I arrived in Milan when I was 18. But my time in Italian football helped me to mature.

A player can't request on what position he wants to play, and it is the same with the captaincy. One should respect this, there are hierarchies.

Why does everyone always assume the quarterback is the leader?

Responsibility makes a player better. I was made the captain of Maharashtra senior team when I was 16 or 17. I know how to take the team forward. I had been through the responsibilities.

It's in my head that I am a leader, and captaining Monchengladbach was very good for me.

Respect is the most essential thing about captaincy. Respect between the captain and players is important. It is give and take.

Sarri has really helped me. 'Listen to me and you will become a champion' he told me in his first year at Napoli.

Bochy is my guy. He raised me in the game; I was 20-years-old and as green as any grapes as you've ever seen on a vine. He took care of me, taught me how to be a professional, and taught me how to get my work done.

It was frustrating when the managers would change; you'd go to the bench and try to work your way back into the team. But it makes you stronger.

I was young myself and reliant on older players to make room for me.