Owen Farrell Quotes

It's really difficult when you don't see much of a team and you're not familiar with how they play.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

If you don't fit into the team, it's going to be difficult for you.

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

I do not like comparisons that much. Each team has its own inner life.

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.

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.

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

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

I'd rather play with 10 people and just get penalized all the way until we have to do something else rather than play with 11 when I know that right now that person is not sold out to be a part of this team.

When you turn your team upside down and try to figure out what the culture of the team is, you take the greatest risk a team can take.

A band's only unique thing is its chemistry, especially if none of you are prodigious players or particularly handsome. The one thing you have is your uniqueness, so we hold on to that.

If you do have a team where every rider has a huge list of results, that means everybody wants to do the race for themselves. The strongest team in the Tour is not the strongest team on paper.

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

You're always going to get different personalities within a team.

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