Angel Di Maria Quotes

I've played sports pretty much my whole life, and that teaches you how to work with anyone, whether you like that person or you don't, and whether you get along with them or you don't. The circumstances don't matter. Team work is part of life.

I think that people who have played sports have an ability to relate to people because when you're playing you have to work on teams and with opposing players.

I always step back and look at - you know, look at my background in playing team sports my whole life and taking that approach into Congress. It's not about me going, and you know, feeding my ego going to Congress.

Team sports are very important for shaping personalities. It's important that kids understand the mentality behind playing team sports and playing for one another and playing with friends.

How are you supposed to communicate on the pitch when you don't off it?

I think communication is massive in football and in all sports in general.

Most management systems have to do with establishing trust and getting people to cooperate. They're not really about expertise or science.

My mum always told me 95 per cent of success was partnering well.

I'd have to just say that working with other people, it's a different world from school.

I've always been a good ensemble player.

I was in the hockey team in school, played football. One of the challenges for me was to make the team feel better. It helped me evolve, so batting at different positions was never a problem.

But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation.

I think that one thing I have learned as a freshman is that it is really important to collaborate.

You need to be able to work with people. Especially in football, it is not a QB's game... even though the media likes to make it into that - it takes the whole team.

When I'm hiring leaders, I pay a lot of attention to what their peers and what people who report to them say about them. We want people who relate well with their peers and cooperate in an exchange of information rather than being overly competitive.

I ran the high school newspaper and was in student government. I played sports my whole life but was never picked as captain.

At AT&T, I learned an awful lot about people, and how important it is to have the right people in the right jobs. And when I say 'right people,' I'm not talking about their college degree or work history; I'm talking about things like bearing - How does this person interact with other people? Can he or she talk to you and not tick you off?

I think sometimes when it comes to sports, and especially relationships between players and coaches, that people lose track, lose a sense of reality.

I've always been a team player.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

I'm a teamworker.

I don't need to hit people in order to play good football. I'm not a boxer after all.

Everybody knows I am a team player.

We are footballers, so if you've got to play with someone, you've got to play with them. What happens off the pitch, well, you can't get on with everyone you work with.