Dele Alli Quotes

Obviously, you want to win a trophy and finish as high up the table as possible. But it's important to focus game-by-game.

My No. 1 priority, and it always has been this, is keeping our team together and making sure we have the right guys in the right positions to make a run at this for a long time.

I think this can be a championship team. But we do have to take it one game at a time. You can't look at the end of the road before you get the next foot in.

You want to start fast in each game, you want to start fast in each season and take it a week at a time.

You want to win everything possible and you try it every year, but you can't win everything, we know this as well but we have to play good football, we have to get the best of our team.

Nobody wins the league in December. We have to go game by game.

It will be a hard game if you think about winning a championship. We need to think about our own game at the moment and focus on getting good results especially over the Christmas period.

Direction is more important than speed. You can go fast in the wrong direction.

In basketball, there are no trap games. If you walk out on that court and lose a game, it's because the other team beat you. You played poorly. But there's no trap game.

We always think that the next match is the most important one.

You take it one game at a time because it's the most important game of the season.

You know when you have a manager that is always successful, is always in the title race and always playing in the Champions League.

With a national team, you've just got to be even more focused on what's most important because the time you've got with the players is limited.

We were playing every game to win, we just happened to win 27 in a row. Our motto was to try and go out and win every game, but there's nothing really to talk about.

It's just about keeping the momentum going, and it doesn't matter whether it's Champions League or Premier League or whatever trophy you're going for, you've got to focus on the opponent that lies ahead.

I have to switch my own mentality into a winning mode, not playing for myself or trying to be selfish.

The most important thing is to stay down to earth and keep concentrating on the next game.

We want to win all of our matches and focus on ourselves.

You've got to play hard every minute you're on the court.

When you have a team that has won for 20 years, the mentality is strong. When you don't play well, you still know you are a strong team.

I just need to direct traffic, get everyone lined up, in and out of the huddle and make sure everything is crisp so that everyone is on the same page.

I try to focus on the next week and the next game every time, focus on what I'm doing right now and just to continue to improve every single day. If I do that, I should have a good future.

If you play hockey, you might as well win.

To play for Chelsea, you have to put your mind to winning titles every year.

A good coach will come in ra, ra, ra and rejig the whole set-up. That might work for a year or 18 months but isn't sustainable. A great coach has the ability to get the best out of his players without the ra, ra, ra stuff.