Dani Alves Quotes

You grow year after year with responsibility, and for me, it's not important who has the armband but that everyone on the pitch gives the right signals.

Coaches have told me I can help the team much more if I don't talk, if I don't moan.

I just try to be the same guy I've always been. Calm, collected, and being a good decision-maker and delivering the ball to the right guys.

What I have found is that, in a family business structure, sometimes what is needed is a sense of discipline rather than creativity. You have to take everyone's ideas and make it work. When you are dealing with money, there is a limitation on how creative you can be.

Guidelines for bureaucrats: (1) When in charge, ponder. (2) When in trouble, delegate. (3) When in doubt, mumble.

Captains need to lead well and play within the laws of the game. There cannot be any compromise on that count.

I pride myself on being able to get the guys lined up on the team, and being a great teammate and also doing my job.

I have to put my team in a good situation.

In football, in any sport, communication is really key. So if you want to be a great teammate, a great team and a great player, then communication is very important.

Some people get on better with some than others but what is absolutely crucial is that everyone knows their roles and responsibilities and trust that your team-mate is going to do their best for the team.

Learning on the job as England captain is hard.

As a goalkeeper, you feel like if you're treated like adults and have your position explained to you, you respect that. You might not agree with it, but you get on with it.

Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.

I think that shows a level of maturity and understanding that I think bodes well for getting to the bottom of this. But it is really up to you and your staff, on behalf of the American people, to take on that challenge.

I'm learning more and more to share creativity with the crew and actors. A film crew is more powerful if you listen to them, but it does make my job more tough because I have to listen.

I think there's nothing that's not important. Everything you do - from how you connect with the guys in the locker room, to how you learn, to how you play on the field - everything's important; everything goes with the position.

Something I learned in the Marine Corps that I've applied to acting is, one, taking direction, and then working with a group of people to accomplish a mission and knowing your role within that team.

The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.

I've played sports pretty much my whole life, and that teaches you how to work with anyone, whether you like that person or you don't, and whether you get along with them or you don't. The circumstances don't matter. Team work is part of life.

An essential part of teaching children to be disciplined and responsible is to have them learn to work.

I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation.

I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager.

If I'm a leader, I have a mission.

I think leadership is more than just being able to cross the t's and dot the i's. It's about character and integrity and work ethic.

When you're the director, you kinda do all the work.