Novak Djokovic Quotes

As a QB, it's a team game, and you're all out there in it.

I know what I do for my team and what my teammates expect of me on both ends of the floor.

It takes all 11 on the field doing their job correctly to make it all happen.

Whoever's in the game has got to be ready to play, take the scout serious and understand what we're doing. If you don't know what to do, ask questions.

You grow year after year with responsibility, and for me, it's not important who has the armband but that everyone on the pitch gives the right signals.

We are definitely a team, from each band member to our management/booking agent. I like to be as involved as possible with business decisions, but at a certain point, it's important to me to step aside and let the professionals do their thing.

As a goalkeeper, I needed good players around me. I needed Nemanja Vidic, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Wayne Rooney. It's the same as a CEO.

It's important everyone knows their roles individually and collectively as a group.

I'll give the director what he wants, but please explain the requirement. If it reaches me, then there's communication.

As coaches say, it's about finding your role. We're coming together as a team.

Leadership is about stepping up when it's the appropriate time and then making sure everyone knows that we're all on the same page.

In football, I've always been about adapting to what's asked of me, to what my team-mates need from me. I'm a team player.

You want to have that trust with your QB; you want to build that camaraderie throughout your team and just have that relationship with them, so when you're out there, he doesn't have anything to worry about. He tells you to run this route, you run it to the best of your ability and be there for him.

Football is a collective sport, but goalkeeping is an individual sport.

All good teams have that trust and that chemistry where you're able to get on each other and know it's for a better purpose.

I'm the kind of leader who would try to have honest and difficult conversations.

I've always found that if you listen to people you can find common ground.

I talk to business; I talk to labor. I talk to everybody.

No matter what quality you have, you have to listen to people, let people help you to be good.

I want to make sure I do everything in my power to be a better teammate and player.

As a goalkeeper, you feel like if you're treated like adults and have your position explained to you, you respect that. You might not agree with it, but you get on with it.

If we're going to ask our players to be coachable, we've got to be coachable as coaches as well. That displays an ownership and an accountability that we try to all have and makes the players more receptive to the messages we try to implement.

I think it's disrespectful to go onto a set without some clear idea of what your intentions are, because then you're hanging the director out to dry.

There's nothing better than people talking to each other, sharing best practices, and opening up communications.

I asked them if it wasn't too much trouble, if I wasn't being too pushy, if they could execute what we were trying to do. And if it didn't make them too angry, if they also wanted to play some defense on the other end, that would be great.