Bastian Schweinsteiger Quotes

You can't control games for 90 minutes; there will be moments where the opponents will show their quality.

This is the NBA, anybody can beat anybody.

Being in this game nine years or whatever, you understand things happen. You can only control what you control, and that's on the court. You can't make front-office decisions and other stuff. You've just got to come out and do your job. You try to do it to the best of your ability.

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

You can't make a recipe for something as complicated as surgery. Instead, you can make a recipe for how to have a team that's prepared for the unexpected.

One of my favorite things about basketball is that you can't break it down into some sort of science that makes total sense.

I think you have to obviously be familiar with how the team wants to play and play to that style. But I think you also have to find a way to be yourself.

Since I've been a part of this league, I can't recall when they've actually made rules that have actually helped to improve the game of basketball.

But we have seen amazing things, good and bad, happen in this game, so you can never take anything for granted. I certainly don't. There are no guarantees, whether it is good bad or indifferent you just work hard to push the odds in your favour as regards myself and the team.

Here's a simple truth: When you surround a good idea with brilliant people, it changes. No matter how much you plan, great ideas have a mind of their own.

That's the English Premier League. You can win against the best teams and then lose against the last.

We know Messi is the best in the world. That means he is unpredictable, so you have to keep focused.

You can't say, 'You're a scorer, you score. You rebound, you rebound.' Basketball is more than that. Basketball is knowing the next step, knowing the next play, knowing how to make things happen.

The future has never been something that I've been able to plan. Every time I try - I don't care if it's three or four days ahead or a week ahead - it just doesn't pan out.

I had Lana and she was the number one player on my team

My experience from 20 years of Africa is that the seemingly impossible is possible.

I learned it doesn't matter how you win. You play to your team's strength.

If you're doing something radically new, you need a team that's willing to go on a ride that's very different from anything they've encountered before.

A star can win any game; a team can win every game.

You never know what even the bad situations will lead to, which I guess is true with anything in life.

Many times you never know what's going to happen. You'll play songs that you never thought you were going to play.

Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain.

No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.

There's a misconception about teamwork. Teamwork is the ability to have different thoughts about things; it's the ability to argue and stand up and say loud and strong what you feel. But in the end, it's also the ability to adjust to what is the best for the team.

I love solving problems. It makes me happy to juggle all the jobs I do-figuring out which team is supposed to win on Fox NFL Sunday; reacting off the cuff to Kelly [Ripa, on Live]; and now Good Morning America, trying to fit into that group. The great thing coming from sports is you understand the concept of a team. It leaves no room for being selfish.