Arjen Robben Quotes

Every time I stepped on the practice field when I was in San Diego, I dreaded going to work. It wasn't any fun. I didn't like the people I was playing with. They didn't like me.

You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.

Communication between band-mates is imperative. Communication is the key to any healthy relationship. If I need to be checked, I expect to hear it put in plain words what my faults are, and give my band-mates the ultimate consideration by shutting up and listening, then acting on the advice given. Same goes for anyone else in any band.

I've had teammates I didn't get along with, who hasn't? I've never had a teammate call me a bad guy, while he was my teammate, and if he did when I was gone what kind of teammate was he anyway?

Politeness is the poison of collaboration.

I don’t allow my staff to criticize each other…. Evan Rosalyn … She knows that nothing can make me madder then for her to criticize staff.

Each director maintains a different personality. Either you get along, or you don't.

We're always working on our communication, which is something that's important. Instead of going through managers to discuss things, we will sit down and have meetings about things. That's a process. And you have to be able to be honest with each other as much as you can.

Personally criticizing a member of my staff hardly seemed like the way to negotiate a deal.

You want a coach who is going to push you and be strong and be in your corner when it's tough, but sometimes you have coaches who think they are more important than the players. That's where the conflicts come.

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.

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.

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

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

The communication within Sinsaenum is really, really cool. As extreme as the music is, you might not realize how much we respect each other and how much we coach each other and how well we communicate.

You know when you put two great players together, you're going to have to work through some things.

When you have a lot of communication, it picks up the aggressiveness with everybody on the court.

I think it is rare that one player really hates another player on a team.

Sometimes players are very fed up with my communication, but that's what I do, and they know how I think. But they know I am very transparent.

You really have to try and find a way to communicate [in the Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp], to respect each other's opinions and ideas, to be able to fight for something you feel is better than somebody else's idea.

If a player is trying to intimidate a skilled player on your team, what do we want? We want our skilled players playing, so we shouldn't be doing that.

I just don't believe that you have to come in and insult people when you want to change things.

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.

You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.

If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless.