Park Ji-sung Quotes

The best kind of accountability on a team is peer-to-peer. Peer pressure is more efficient and effective than going to the leader, anonymously complaining, and having them stop what they are doing to intervene.

I always want harmony within the band. I want it to work.

When I'm aggressive, all the other guys are aggressive, and somehow that's how we win games.

In some cultures, like Middle Eastern, Egyptian, or Asian cultures, people are often hesitant to give any negative feedback.

Obviously, people in the media speak a lot when things aren't going right, but we as players do communicate with each other. Maybe it doesn't come across as being loud on the pitch - and you don't see it as much - but we do speak when things aren't going as well as planned.

We yelled, mostly, but bad enough that you wanted to fight. That's how we became winners. We fought each other. When you did something wrong, we'd tell you about it.

It's difficult to gel players.

If one player can say that I, Emmanuel Adebayor, spoke badly to anyone in the changing rooms, then I'd honestly like to know who it is. It has never happened in my life.

We're in a very individual sport, but they like us not to be so individual. They'd rather have you look like every other cookie cutter guy and have you believe that you're replaceable when you're really not.

It's normal for a team to have low moments.

At the highest level, a discussion can be good sometimes to get everyone back on their toes.

There must be some tensions in a team, which you can't always wipe away or smooth over.

Good teams understand how to compete, how to practice the right way.

I'm not a good one-on-one player.

As you develop relationships in your team you have to learn how your teammates react to being yelled at or how to put your arm around them and show them how to do things. You have to build those relationships up and understand who that person is and how they respond and choose your way to lead them to hopefully help everyone out.

When I'm talking to my teammates, being the vocal leader, going up and down, pushing everyone, they tend to follow.

I think the first assumption as a coach can't be that we just have to run harder or do it tougher. You have to understand that everybody is a human being and you have to understand that everybody has things that they're dealing with.

It's normal that if you are working with a lot of people, then you have a lot of different mentalities and characters. You have the serious guy, and you have the one who is always complaining and the one who is always talking. Everyone is different.

Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.

I've been on a bunch of teams in my career.

I've had the opportunity to have different style teams with similar identities but opposite identities in some ways.

Some players respond to shouting; some don't. Everyone is different, and that is one of a manager's strengths to understand that some don't respond to that.

There's no perfect team.

You need to have discussions and make sure you guide players towards the collective spirit. It can't be done overnight.

When you are in a team sometimes you hear 'Blah, blah, blah' complaining all the time about small things.