Frank Rijkaard Quotes

But I was club captain at Leeds, club captain at Fulham. If you've got a bad attitude you're not getting those honours.

We try to recruit good players and good people.

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.

Obviously you have to have talent in order to play so you can't overlook that, but we won't overlook the character issue when it comes to talent because if they have talent and they don't have character, it's going to be very difficult to coach that person.

I learned to respect the coach and to do everything within my power to show that I should be the one playing. That's exactly what I did during my three years under Mourinho.

I want to play every game, as does every player. But sometimes, you just have to listen to the manager.

What I like is to bring the best team for the fans, and if we have that then we need to perform and we need success, but that is what I like and what I have had all my life in football.

You should always play 100 per cent, and you shouldn't expect every decision from the referee.

What really matters is who you are when you step on the field, and I will let my bat and my glove speak for themselves.

Responsibility makes a player better. I was made the captain of Maharashtra senior team when I was 16 or 17. I know how to take the team forward. I had been through the responsibilities.

Every team that I've played on, I've either been the captain or co-captain.

I've given everything I can possible to the game, on and off the field.

My sports were team sports: ice hockey and baseball. The whole team dynamic is similar in business. Leadership is earned - the captain earns that role; it's not because he's the coach's son. These are all things we know, but in today's world, it's not a bad idea to remind ourselves.

In order to gain the respect of your players in the locker room, you can't just perform on Saturday. You have to do it consistently during practices, meetings, and in the weight room.

The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.

I'm going to go in and play, because the most important thing is playing on the field and being able to contribute. I really am ready.

I'm going to go out and try to be the best player I can be and help the Chicago Bears win.

I'd give my life to be the national team coach.

I'm most proud of the fact I carried myself on and off the field consistently for what the NFL stands for.

In the end, the great leveler in any sport is performance on the field or on the court. Kids don't care what language players speak or if they eat tacos, rice, or sauerkraut. They don't care if they're white, black, or brown.

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.

You know, I think He honestly does care about how we play on the field, more than anything more than win or lose our hearts on the field.

Anytime you're playing basketball, and you have a coach who you have to respect, you've got to be very disciplined.

Your job as a baseball player is to come to the park ready to play every day, and the manager, it's his job to make those decisions about who plays.