Fernandinho Quotes

You have to have great players and great coaches working with you.

When you're a sub, it's a game of more than 11 players starting the game.

There's always room for quality players in a team. The trick as a manager is to figure out how to bring the best out of your team.

Tactics are so important because everybody has to know what they have to do on the pitch. The relationships and behaviours off the pitch between team-mates have to be as good as possible.

Getting the best out of your best players gets the best out of the team.

That's the job of a quarterback, to go out there and be confident with the communication of the play, in the huddle and with my play.

I was just taught, the team goes how the point guard goes.

I have been doing this for a long, and it is the players who learn who you need to work with. You have to coach them to think and understand the game. If they cannot, then you have to tell them, 'You have to do this anyway,' but the best thing to do is say, 'Listen, if he is doing this, then maybe you have to do that.'

It's not enough to buy good players, one has to develop a team.

I play with some talented players like Cesc Fabregas, Nemanja Matic and Nathaniel Chalobah. They have different styles and I can learn from everyone.

That is what it is like with Pep. At first, you don't understand. But then you grow up, you work, and now we understand the things he wants much better. It's not like the first season when it took him more time to make us understand his ideas. Some players didn't understand immediately what he wanted.

It's not easy when you have a new manager because you have to try and adapt yourself to him, the team, training sessions, and the game.

For every striker, it's important to have the confidence of the coach.

I've always enjoyed playing the shortest form of the game and I relish the opportunity to develop my leadership skills as England's Twenty20 captain.

It's hard to be the point guard, especially playing with a young team.

A group of players go out and win a game in a style that gets the best out of them. That's the key to management.

Playing with people like Cesc Fabregas makes it easy for you. He will talk to you and talk you through games.

My job is to work hard, together with my players, to improve.

Are there things you can do with the rest of your personnel or are things you can do schematically to help a quarterback? I think so. But at the end of the day, that quarterback still has to be a driving force of your team, especially if you want to be a consistent winner over time.

A common mistake among those who work in sport is spending a disproportional amount of time on "x's and o's" as compared to time spent learning about people.

I play a complicated position in an intensely team-oriented game.

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

You can lead a team in a lot of different ways. It can be talking to somebody who is down or, during the course of a game, looking to penetrate and then dropping the ball off to someone else for an easy bucket.

It's fun leading this offense. I don't think we've hit our peak.