Pep Guardiola Quotes

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

You can have really good statistics, which are really good, and it's a serious advantage, but when push comes to shove, it's about players communicating and players playing together.

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

Good teams have more fun. Bad teams have more characters.

For me, as a coach, it is important to put together a team that not only blends but finds the right balance between defence and offence.

A good team needs time to play together.

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

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.

I always focus on team building - both in office and at home.

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.

As a QB, it's a team game, and you're all out there in it.

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

Pep has made me understand the game more: not just how I play but also how the team has to play, because I am just a component.

I think communication is massive in football and in all sports in general.

I think it makes the game much easier to play once you have a good cohesion off the court. I think that's big because you come into a locker room at the NBA level, there's so much emotion, so much pride in the locker room.

Friends ask me to pick the best 11 players, but sometimes the best 11 players are not the best team. So it's something that you have to work together.

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

Business is a battlefield. You need to be able to go to battle with your team members. Like the military. Know them, trust them, and know who you're working with.

In football, in any sport, communication is really key. So if you want to be a great teammate, a great team and a great player, then communication is very important.

What you do is build your team around your core. Some teams have one main guy - not many, but some do - and you build around that. If you have a bunch of good players, that's another way to go about it - through depth, teamwork, defense, and fundamentals.

Football is very changeable, particularly at international level when you're not working together every day.

LeBron is the best player in our league, but some people have a hard time playing with him.

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

When people ask me what I miss most about the game, it's being in the locker room and getting to know the guys. Back in those days, we had roommates. We had to talk basketball and that was a great way to understand the game itself and form those lasting relationships.