N'Golo Kante Quotes

Every team has to have a quarterback. You can't have two quarterbacks.

To have a high basketball IQ, I think you have to be unselfish, but also selfish at the same time. To be able to say, okay, I know this is going to work, so let's do it.

How are you supposed to communicate on the pitch when you don't off it?

The biggest thing I've been working on his just finding the open man.

When I watch kids play basketball, they don't know how to think the game. They know what it should look like, but they don't know why.

The funny thing about directing is that you have your own opinions, but it's a collaboration. Directing is a group effort. Even though you might think something works, the smartest thing you can do as a director is try and weigh the opinions of the people around you.

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.

He is a very positive captain; he is proactive as well as reactive. He is keen to read the game, to get in there, and he never stops thinking about the game, the situation, and trying to turn it to his advantage. He has been very good for the game.

The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.

I want to be on the field. It's a better place to talk to the guys. It's a relaxed atmosphere. You want to make sure you know what's going on, not just with the hitters.

One of the things about football is, it's a relationship business.

Every player in every team speaks to each other in order to improve the quality on the pitch - that communication is necessary.

I believe my strengths are my pace and reading of the game.

Sometimes I had bad behaviour with managers that I loved at Sampdoria, like Vujadin Boskov and Sven-Goran Eriksson. I understand that this can happen during the game or when you are substituted.

It's football, you work with humans and humans make mistakes. We will do everything in our power to prepare the players so they know to make the right decision at the right times.

As a player, you always want to play - it would be wrong to say otherwise - but you can always understand the manager's reasons if he decides to leave you out.

A big part of football is the team aspect.

I don't need to hit people in order to play good football. I'm not a boxer after all.

A quarterback wants to come across in the interview process as confident, as having a vast understanding and knowledge of defenses, as being capable of leading a group of men. That's what you've got to convey to the teams.

Football is a team sport, and each person plays a role - this is what counts.

That's the job of a quarterback, to go out there and be confident with the communication of the play, in the huddle and with my play.

I want to play football, and I want to help the team. It doesn't matter if I play midfield, if I play in defence, if I play as a striker.

I'm always looking to know what I'm going to do before I receive the ball in order to make my team play better.

I'm playing for the Red Sox, and I don't think there's anybody out here who's going to intentionally hurt you. So you listen to information, and you kind of filter what you like and take out what you don't.

I think football is a team sport.