Luis Enrique Quotes

The life expectancy of a team is about eight months. Then the next year, it's a whole new team.

Of course, there will be few people who are sympathetic but you don't become a great team overnight, no matter how much money you have at your disposal.

I know that any group of people can become a team if they do the right things, but I came to realize over time that if you acquire or develop the right kind of people, that process of building a team is going to be much more effective and easier.

But concepts around how a team functions, the importance of the relationship between football and the person, how you develop both, are always valid.

You want to build your own team for the highest level, and that happens more with teams that stay together.

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.

It's not always the best roster that wins, it's the best team, and sometimes that maybe doesn't jell all that well.

Every team has leadership. The leadership is the best players. But there's positive leadership, and there's negative leadership.

Every single match, win, lose or draw, there's something that we can improve on, and it's about us addressing that straight after the match.

When the team is doing well, individual performances don't count.

In every club, 11 players are happy and the others unhappy. This is correct because if one player doesn't play and is happy, he's crazy.

I've seen really, really talented teams that don't care about each other and are average, maybe above average is about as good as you're going to get.

I've won midget championships, a junior-league title, two World Junior Championships and some other minor-hockey championships, but I don't think teams win because I'm on them.

It's the same for any team... you have to keep your best players.

It would be worse if I have players who are happy if they sit on the bench, because that doesn't mean that we develop our game.

In the regular season, they all only count for one win or one loss. But for a team or coaching staff, these are tests, and you want to see where you're at.

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

When the team's not playing well offensively, it's always a problem for me because I'm not an individualistic player.

Don't worry about the game you just won or the team that we just blew out... or, um... blown... blowed out... Let's think about what we need to do going forward, and they had, uh... blown out.

It's much easier when your team's winning. When your team starts to lose, that's where a lot of these quarterback controversies divide a locker room. The key, as a pro, is to be a pro.

It was a crazy game. We could have scored five...oh right, we did score five, but we could have scored six, seven or eight.

When football stars disappear, so do the teams, and that is a very curious phenomenon. It is like in the theatre, in a play, where there is a great star. If the star is not well, the whole cast suffers.

I don't really want to go into my problems with the team at the time except to say that no one's ever had to pay me to play basketball.

How good can we expect to be if our best player is not our best teammate