Robert Green Quotes

Any team can have a bad century.

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

The life expectancy of a team is about eight months. Then the next year, it's a whole new team.

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.

You've got to be extremely careful, because you could be with a great team, and you could be the product of a great team. There are some players that stand out despite the teams that they play on, and there are some players that are good because of the team that they're with.

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.

You cannot just allow your team to stink.

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

I know that any group of people can become a team if they do the right things, but I came to realize over time that if you acquire or develop the right kind of people, that process of building a team is going to be much more effective and easier.

It's really an organizational job with a football team to watch them go through their day.

Each team is different but you give yourself a better chance if you keep the team intact.

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

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.

When I went to work with Garinger, they were good kids and a very good team. But they had a nine-game losing streak, and you can see that they were getting down and depressed and not feeling rewards for their efforts. But when I came in there, I didn't need to teach them much about X's and O's.

I've won midget championships, a junior-league title, two World Junior Championships and some other minor-hockey championships, but I don't think teams win because I'm on them.

It's the same for any team... you have to keep your best players.

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

This team just wasn't good enough today, but they had the unity I always wanted. To have an American team like this has always been a dream of mine.

This may sound arrogant, but I believe that if we'd done teamship better, we'd still be there. Where we fell down was the inability to hold together. We should have learnt from the great football teams. The players may not like each other. They have egos, they have their own ambitions, they have different personalities, but they are still bloody good teams.

It's better to have a great team than a team of greats.

You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I'll show you a pennant. I'll show you the New York Yankees.