Erik Lamela Quotes

I like to keep my team together.

For me, trying to connect our team together is so important. I know we'll play really well when our team gets really tight. So I want to make sure I connect with the players so that I can help them be at their best.

Isn't cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport.

I think it's an extremely important factor to have your team together. It goes back to having distractions. When you all stay together for a period of time you're not training people or feeling out different personalities.

Now, everybody always says there's no 'I' in team, but there is an 'I' in win, because the individuals make the team what it is, and how they think and what they do is important to the team. So when you act like the individual is not important, well, it is damn important who these people are and what they are.

But I think it's more normal for my team to have no success than it is to win two consecutive European cups.

A winning player is nothing more than a player on a winning team. A losing player is a guy who played on a losing team that year.

I have a good team. It's good to have a good team.

I want to build a team who can play home and away the same.

I've been in teams that have struggled and been relegated.

I don't think, when you are involved with England, you can ever write any game or tournament off - that wouldn't be acceptable.

I'm a modern coach when it comes to training. I pick a lot of things up and I watch a lot of training sessions and follow a lot of leagues around the world.

When I was a player, it was important to target the first few friendlies and plant a seed in the mind of the gaffer.

You've got to turn over every stone; you've got to look for every advantage. You need to make sure you're doing everything you possibly can, not just on the field but off it, to give your team an advantage - from having a sleep expert coming to talk to your team to having an independent analysis of your team done.

For me the most important thing is what you can do as a player and a team, not to talk about individual things.

Obviously every team is different, and you don't want to try and be them.

It's really difficult when you don't see much of a team and you're not familiar with how they play.

That's something that's so often overlooked in this game - the dynamics of the locker room.

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.

It's the most pleasurable experience in the world! When you're on a great team and you get hot, your teammates milk you dry - they wear you out and there's nothing like being on a great team.

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

At the beginning of my career, I wasn't coaching players like Messi.

To train a national team, you have to know what team you have at your disposal and what this team is capable of. You need to get the best out of them and take them as far as possible. Yet, sometimes, you can't achieve your goals.

... Really get to know and establish relationships with your teammates because they are your new family and they will be the ones there for you when anything goes wrong.

I played [baseball] in college, so it wasn't that much a stretch. But I would say the main thing for guys who hadn't played before it's just one word - swagger. If you have swagger on the field, and look like you know how to play, that's 90% of it.