Rafael Benitez Quotes

When the fans and players are united, the team is always much stronger so, when the fans really get behind us, it gives us a huge boost - and that's what we want.

It is difficult to play a team with great morale and passion.

The best player's responsibility is to unite and inspire your teammates to play up to their full maximum ability, and that never occurs if you try to separate yourself as part of the problem.

I think the big thing is keeping positive energy in the clubhouse. The amount of time we spend in there and spend together carries over into what you do on the field.

You need to make sure you have a squad of players who are happy and coming on to do their best for you.

This is a partnership really with the fans. They have to come and support the team.

To have the support of your team-mates is massive.

I'm being completely honest. If you sit on the bench and the others win, then you will not really feel like part of the winning team.

It feels good when your teammates are telling you on the bench that they're hyped.

Coaching is salesmanship. Coaching is winning players over and convincing them they have to play together. It takes a team conviction to play together to make things work.

No coach is more important than the Team

Im only as good as my team, I love you guys so much

I think you can get too focused on the championship and forget how rewarding it is to be part of a team.

I like to help create team spirit in the dressing room. I feel that I've got loads of love to give.

What I learned from 9/11 that is really important, first and foremost, you have to motivate all the workers and understand that they've left their families to help clean up a pretty awful situation. Every time you have an emergency management situation, it's all about teamwork.

Winning teams have the least amount of distractions. They have a really tight group of people working towards the same common goal.

There's nothing greater in the world than when somebody on the team does something good, and everybody gathers around to pat him on the back.

Obviously every one of them was special to that particular team, all the people that were involved with it.

As far as our fans are concerned, I'm the only one who counts; along with my teammates, obviously.

Now, everybody always says there's no 'I' in team, but there is an 'I' in win, because the individuals make the team what it is, and how they think and what they do is important to the team. So when you act like the individual is not important, well, it is damn important who these people are and what they are.

That's the only thing that got me here is my teammates. My teammates and my coach. That's the only reason I'm here.

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.

A shared experience can energize a team toward its common goal more quickly than a direct order ever will.

I didn't do this by myself, man. It was so many people, so many fans that came in there and cheered for me, night in and night out.

Individual players don't win titles no matter how good you are as a player. The best players in the world need a team around them. It is about the team, and we are playing for the badge.