Shahid Afridi Quotes

I would say for a team to win, you don't need big names. You just need the right pieces.

When the team plays better, individuals play better as well.

The problem is that they are all stars at Madrid. You need someone to carry the water to the well.

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

They have very good individual players, but they need the collective game. And they still do not have it although there are now only six months left to go.

The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful.

As a leader, you want your team to play as you are.

As a player you get asked to do different roles within the side.

To say we have to play a certain way, or try to, every game is great in theory, but depending what players you have got you have to play to their strengths and cover up their weaknesses.

I've been on extremely talented teams that just don't click, and I've also been on team with a little bit less talent, but they clicked, and because they clicked, they did better than other talented teams I've been on.

They say that when it comes to the depth chart, it can change any day and that we dictate how the depth chart goes. If one person has a great day, he might be going with the 'ones.' If a person slips up a little bit, he might be going with the 'twos' and 'threes.'

I've been on teams in the NBA where we don't play the right way.

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.

We cannot try to play in a manner that does not correspond to our players' characteristics.

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.

Tactics, gameplan and players are all influential in how a team performs but the question is how to manage every individual in your charge and get them to play like a finely tuned orchestra.

Whenever you are coaching, you are trying to get the most balanced team that you can: balance between defense, offense, and rebounding.

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

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.

Player X might be the best outside back, but does that player help the best wide player be as good?

When you bring one of your top scorers, your top players off the bench, it really gives your team balance.

You could have a player that gave you some iffiness but his talent would make a real contribution, but you had to have an overwhelming base of players so you know exactly what you had.

Sometimes people mistake some things regarding that, thinking just one player would make up for the needs of an entire club.

Mascherano's impact as a leader is more important inside the squad, and Messi's leadership is more important in the pitch.

If it was up to me, obviously I would start every game, but that decision is up to the coach.