Ousmane Dembele Quotes

If there's anything you could point out where I was a little different, it was the fact that I never mentioned winning.

At Lyon, there's 20 other superstars there - I'm not the best player there. I'm not the best player at England.

I really don't think of myself as the best player on the team.

I'm not a guy that's going to brag or feel like I'm better than the group.

I think my teammates make me look a lot better than I am.

What I don't want to be is the most important person of the club. If we win a game, it was the players who played very well.

I've been fortunate enough to work with lots of really good players, so it would be disrespectful to single out the best.

No one man is superior to the game.

Sometimes if you have very confident people, you have to tell them please, be polite, there are other players are good enough as you and you should never speak out of an orchestra.

Humility is what makes teams great. I've preached it for a long period of time.

Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success.

Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.

You learn how to be a gracious winner and an outstanding loser.

It's really important to find a humble approach to your own creative work, your own business work. To recognize that you can't do everything yourself.

I've been fortunate, but I'm also not very precious about making sure I'm the star of a film.

How does it feel? Really, I don't know because I never try to feel more or less than any player in Leverkusen or Mexico. I don't feel like I'm more famous than other players; I'm just one more footballer who wants to achieve their dreams and to try to help their team as much as they can to do that.

I don't think I'm any smarter than any of my developers.

I never like to say that I'm better than anybody else.

It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.

I try to let my game speak for itself.

I celebrate my teammates' plays more than I celebrate my plays.

I never considered myself to be a star - only a forward working for the team.

I can only repeat, I would never compare myself to Gerd Muller.

Knowing that the teams in front of us are sometimes better than you, you have to recognise that and be humble. It's part of the game.

It's always nice to be getting personal recognition, but I wouldn't be getting it if it wasn't for the help of my team-mates and the backroom staff.