Johan Cruyff Quotes

It's irrelevant how I prefer to play and what I want. It's all about what works for the team.

We have to do what's best for the team.

I may see a way I want to do something, and I understand when you have a team, everybody can't do their own thing. I'm willing to put my own agenda aside to do what's best for the team.

A player has to think a lot bigger than himself personally, regardless of his situation.

When you work with Mourinho, you have to know that the group, the collective is above the individual.

No one player is bigger than the team.

At the end of the day, nobody is bigger than the team.

It's not the great stars that win; it's the great teams that win. It's the teams that subjugate their ego to the team and put the team first.

I think that my team is more important than me.

What matters most is that the team always comes ahead of the players.

To work for the team and for the success of the team. That is more important than one ego.

Personal achievements don't matter to me; victory of the team does.

I try to do what's best for the team.

The point of the game is not how well the individual does, but whether the team wins. That's the beautiful heart of the game, the blending of personalities, the mutual sacrifices for the group success.

Good teams I played on... just the tone that they play with, the energy they play with, how they go about it. When you get it going the right way, you get everyone going in the same direction and it's a powerful thing.

I don't believe in an 'all-about-me' culture. It's about the group.

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Our football program is bigger than any one person.

If you win while scoring goals, then you leave happy, but the most important thing is always the team. I do not think just of me.

I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.

Companies are communities. There's a spirit of working together. Communities are not a place where a few people allow themselves to be singled out as solely responsible for success.

I love being part of the team.

There can be a lot done if you are not so particular about who gets credit for it.