Bill Belichick Quotes

Clubs are much stronger than any one individual.

The strength of the team lies within the individual. And the strength of the individual lies within the team

In basketball, you can be the greatest individual player in the world and still lose every game, because a team will always beat an individual.

As far as the Jets go, I'm competing to play. It will be a heated competition between Kellen and me, and I'm excited about that; I will do it in a respectful way. I have the utmost respect for him because he's a great player. Whatever's best for team will be best for the team and the coaches will decide.

The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.

Jamie Vardy and myself, we have fun during matches.

Ultimately, if you can have a very cohesive and tight unit, it obviously will pay dividends down the line.

My best teammate was Roberto Carlos.

Bringing together disparate personalities to form a team is like a jigsaw puzzle. You have to ask yourself: what is the whole picture here? We want to make sure our players all fit together properly and complement each other, so that we don't have a big piece, a little piece, an oblong piece, and a round piece. If personalities work against each other, as a team you'll find yourselves spinning your wheels.

A team doesn't win the championship if its players are working from different agendas.

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

You must learn how to hold a team together. You must lift some men up, calm others down, until finally they've got one heartbeat. Then you've got yourself a team.

Coaching is salesmanship. Coaching is winning players over and convincing them they have to play together. It takes a team conviction to play together to make things work.

This may sound arrogant, but I believe that if we'd done teamship better, we'd still be there. Where we fell down was the inability to hold together. We should have learnt from the great football teams. The players may not like each other. They have egos, they have their own ambitions, they have different personalities, but they are still bloody good teams.

The number one thing on any team that will keep your players from being selfish is respect for the other players.

The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.

Whether we have the best individual players doesnt matter, you have to have the best team

You're going to have injuries, danger and glory in every sport. What makes football unique is that every person on that team needs to count on everybody else. It's the ultimate team game and you have to depend on your coaches, you have to depend on your support staff, you have to depend on your teammates.

You have to lose yourself in the team and you have to lose yourself in the game

I've got a magnificent relationship with Leo (Messi) and Ney (Neymar). They drive the team, with Andres Iniesta as well - what a player. You know if you have a good relationship with them off the pitch it will be that way on the pitch too. They took it as a sign that I had come to help them, not to compete with them.

Even weak men when united are powerful.

The best players don't win championships. The best team players win championships.

As a group, we are stronger than we are as individuals. We start to think we want everything for ourselves and we don't want to help anybody else. We want to succeed, but we don't want anybody else to succeed, because we want to be the winner.

Each of us must make the effort to contribute to the best of our ability according to our individual talents. And then we put all the individual talents together for the highest good of the group. Understanding that the good of the group comes first is fundamental to being a highly productive member of a team.

I think the locker room is a huge part of the football team and often is a part thats overlooked. The chemistry in your locker room has a lot to do with how youre going to go out there and perform.