Johan Cruyff Quotes

Friends ask me to pick the best 11 players, but sometimes the best 11 players are not the best team. So it's something that you have to work together.

I've never been a fan of individual awards because football is such a team sport. There's so many things that goes into making plays. It's about teammates trusting one another and working together.

Growth and profit are a product of how people work together.

The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful.

The single most important thing we had in the Steelers of the '70s was the ability to work together.

Any team that has Shade as their leader is bound to have a pretty directionless quality. But when Cyborg asks Shade to gather the Secret Seven together and help him stop the war between Wonder Woman and Aquaman, Shade agrees - albeit reluctantly.

When I'm playing a team sport, it's not about one individual, it's about everyone, from me to the other 23 people who were there, to all the support staff who've worked very hard behind the scenes.

Football is such a team sport, so no one individual does it. No one coach or no one assistant coach or no one player, it's a great team sport, so I don't get carried away with a bunch of accolades.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.

I believe in work, in connections between the players, I think what makes football great is that it is a team sport. You can win in different ways, by being more of a team, or by having better individual players. It is the team ethic that interests me, always.

Sports teaches you to understand the meaning of a team. You need to be able to work with everybody; you don't have to be their best friend. You can experience the fun of competition and driving toward a common goal without pushing to bond in some major way with each individual on a project.

Team playing, that's what I see when I'm out there watching the WNBA games. All the girls play as a team, and they have each other's backs, and that's great.

The beauty of football is that it's about 11, and another five, at least, are sitting outside. You cannot get competitive.

I would say for a team to win, you don't need big names. You just need the right pieces.

You can have a bunch of individually good players, but it doesn't matter. You gotta learn to play like a team.

I feel that teams with players who are very close end up winning.

I don't think one player can ever win a World Cup.

It is the entire team that has to work together. Football is a team game. We all have to give our all.

Every single position has a massive part to play on a team.

It's easy to fit into a team like Arsenal.

Coaching changes are a part of football; they arrive ready to meet the goals they have been set, so you respect them and work with them like any other.

Football is a team game, and I just want to function as part of the team.

To my mind, a mix of veterans and rookies is number one on the list of 'things that make a good Avengers team.'