Phil Jones Quotes

And when the pressure was on us, the team handled it very well. One has to learn to play well under pressure.

The team which handles the pressure best, carries the day.

There's always pressure on people's shoulders when it comes to Man United, and it's how you deal with the pressure.

Isn't cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport.

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

At Tottenham Hotspur, we can share the pressure, but on the South Korea team, some of the players have more pressure than others.

Pressure can make a diamond. Pressure makes me play better because I don't want to let my teammates or my fans down, and that makes me play extra hard.

If you can't play under pressure, you shouldn't be at a World Cup.

Football is constant pressure, from day to day. You need to know how to live with that.

If you're not starting well and not taking the lead, then you're constantly putting pressure on yourself as a team.

Obviously every team is different, and you don't want to try and be them.

It's really difficult when you don't see much of a team and you're not familiar with how they play.

Sometimes you're going to have someone on your team who's just not comfortable with being open. You have to ask yourself, 'Is this person going to allow us to be a real team?' Maybe they're not right for your team. You have to be willing to lose someone sometimes.

If you don't have a cohesive team, you won't have good results.

Pressure makes me perform better.

Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.

It seems that we have it backward in our society. We tend to look up to people who are under a great deal of stress, who can handle loads of stress, and those who are under a great deal of pressure.

I think it's an extremely important factor to have your team together. It goes back to having distractions. When you all stay together for a period of time you're not training people or feeling out different personalities.

Baseball would be a quite remarkable activity if it was the one place in the world where your co-workers didn't have any impact on how productive you were. But in fact, baseball is a high-stress occupation, and those sort of stress-inducing activities... just have a huge impact on how the team functions, I think.

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'd rather play with 10 people and just get penalized all the way until we have to do something else rather than play with 11 when I know that right now that person is not sold out to be a part of this team.

If you do have a team where every rider has a huge list of results, that means everybody wants to do the race for themselves. The strongest team in the Tour is not the strongest team on paper.

It's all right buying all these good players but they've got to gel, and that takes time.

In the World Cup, much depends for every team on how it develops during the tournament. There are always rising tensions. They come from within, and they come from the media.

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.