Jose Mourinho Quotes

Team chemistry is what really matters, your team chemistry and team toughness.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.

In the dressing room, you can never lose that group concept.

Not everybody's going to have a perfect relationship with every great player on their team. But when I step between those lines and I'm with my team, we're a brotherhood.

Sometimes keeping a squad together can improve spirit and with it performances.

It's always nice to feel the support of your manager, club, and team-mates.

I like to create a good atmosphere in the dressing room.

You can't manufacture team spirit; it doesn't come from having a good night out and a laugh.

The best players I have seen and known have confidence in their teammates. They know that basketball's not a one-man game. That confidence brings out the best in everybody, because it's contagious.

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.

A lot of guys came together quickly as a group, as more than just teammates, as friends. Your family get to know each other, and you become really close, and that's a big part of the team aspect is caring about your teammates off the field, getting to know their kids, their families, their wives.

The coach is the focal point of the team, but you need to have an open mind, and so do all the players. Everyone needs to work together to achieve a common goal.

Being part of the Dutch national team is about unity and not about rivalry.

I think that's a good thing to have a camaraderie aspect with the team.

You don't just be a team. You become a team. Through tough games you find that you need each other

I don't care how talented a team is, unless you believe in one another, you're weak.

Teammates are there for each other even after the noise of the crowd is gone.

There is a strong sense of understanding, appreciation, shared responsibility, and trust that unites and motivates the team to work together.

If you're going to play together as a team, you've got to care for one another. you've got to love each other.

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.

When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.

Once you have the support of the lads around you, you can't ask for any more.

You go into the Lions camp with preconceived ideas about players and teams and then find guys are actually very different, and the beauty of the Lions is that all those characters are moulded into it. I find that exciting.

The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members.