Louis van Gaal Quotes

In any team sport, the best teams have consistency and chemistry.

In all things, you need a good organization. You can have the best player in the world; if you do not have the best team, you will not win.

To get things done, you have to get people together.

To succeed in hockey, you need teamwork.

You should pull him back besides in all the lines before the quarter, just as you make the others advance.

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.

Football is a team sport, and each person plays a role - this is what counts.

It's all about controlling the huddle one play at a time and knowing my assignment, knowing my progression and where I've got to go with the ball.

If the vision is not right and if the right group of players is not together, it doesn't come together.

Football is teamwork, unity, defence, assists, sacrifice.

It's my job to run the offense and make sure everything goes smoothly.

One of the first lessons I learned in football is that it takes a team to win a game.

If your offensive and defensive lines are speaking and people are listening, you've got a very good chance of success.

Effective teamwork begins and ends with communication

If the right people do the right things, we can walk, we can have a future. But if people don't put time into it to make it run in a right way, I don't think your team will work.

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

I've always been a good ensemble player.

In football, it's the ultimate team sport. You have to have good people around you as a quarterback for things to happen.

There is no common sense in going to the field to fight and leaving a man at home to undo all that you accomplish.

The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.

I'd like to think that every captain around the world has a vision of how they want their teams to play and most of them are allowed to take their teams forward in their own way.

Well, then we got to know each other and eventually worked out a bit of idea of management.

When I'm on the court, I'm a follower.

There's a tipping point that happens with soccer in which you just kinda get it. I was drawn to it because the best soccer teams play similarly to my favorite basketball teams - like the eighties Lakers or eighties Celtics - teams that emphasized teamwork over individualism and relied on passing as their biggest ongoing edge.

Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.