Ali Krieger Quotes

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.

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

It's all right buying all these good players but they've got to gel, and that takes time.

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

Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.

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.

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful.

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.

I don't care how good you are, teams can be put under pressure.

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

Some teams take a while to jell; some click right away.

It's more difficult to achieve something with the national team because players from several clubs get together and less frequently.

You want to build your own team for the highest level, and that happens more with teams that stay together.

People talk about offensive chemistry all the time, but defensive chemistry is something you have to build, too, and there's a lot of that work to be done with just communications and the feel of who certain guys play.

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.

Sometimes you're going to have someone on your team who's just not comfortable with being open. You have to ask yourself, 'Is this person going to allow us to be a real team?' Maybe they're not right for your team. You have to be willing to lose someone sometimes.

It's not always the best roster that wins, it's the best team, and sometimes that maybe doesn't jell all that well.

A good team needs time to play together.

I've seen really, really talented teams that don't care about each other and are average, maybe above average is about as good as you're going to get.

If you don't have a cohesive team, you won't have good results.

Bringing together disparate personalities to form a team is like a jigsaw puzzle. You have to ask yourself: what is the whole picture here? We want to make sure our players all fit together properly and complement each other, so that we don't have a big piece, a little piece, an oblong piece, and a round piece. If personalities work against each other, as a team you'll find yourselves spinning your wheels.

Talent is extremely important. It's like a sports team, the team that has the best individual player will often win, but then there’s a multiplier from how those players work together and the strategy they employ.

They have very good individual players, but they need the collective game. And they still do not have it although there are now only six months left to go.

I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.