David de Gea Quotes

I think as a central defender you grow as a player.

The interaction between the goalkeeper and the back four has to be top to compete in the Premier League.

In football, it's the ultimate team sport. You have to have good people around you as a quarterback for things to happen.

Quarterbacks need to make their team better. If it's a bad team, they can even make a bad team better.

A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.

I just love playing with point guards with high Iqs.

In a team, you need players who are technically good and can perform under pressure.

A great team relies on its leaders and they have to make a difference at key moments.

A point guard can carry a team - if he has all the right stuff.

Losing the ball is not going to help your team, so I am trying to change that.

I have been captain in the past and I know what it takes to gel a team and get it going.

First of all, I am and I remain a goalkeeper, but I try to be involved as much as I can and to help the defenders. I try to read dangerous situations in advance.

It's not enough to buy good players, one has to develop a team.

It's all about controlling the huddle one play at a time and knowing my assignment, knowing my progression and where I've got to go with the ball.

It's not just about your name. It's about what you do for your team and your value on the defensive end of the court. That's all that matters.

I stay in the middle and my team-mates can go to attack.

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.

If there is one certainty in soccer, it is this: The quickest road to becoming a winning soccer team is to have a great goalkeeper.

I do a lot of things to help my team winning - set screens, roll into the rim, finishing. I think I can be even more than that.

I think it's a requirement that the general manager and the coach are communicating with each other on a regular basis, and it's unacceptable if they're not.

Sure we have skilled players, but the biggest thing might just be that we are so well conditioned and how we can play for 90 minutes at a high tempo which is needed in soccer at an international level.

It's not enough just being a good passer of the ball.

Center is a very tough position to play.

I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful.

The problem with communicating without a coordinator is that everyone has to read everyone else's mind.