Earl Monroe Quotes

Basketball is about relationships. The bond that you create by playing together, going through battles together. The trust that you build goes a long way. It goes beyond the game of basketball.

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.

People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.

I remember when I first came to Liverpool, Pepe Reina helped with everything, and he made it easy for me. When I was Atletico Madrid captain, I tried to help everyone. These are the basics in football: you need to create an atmosphere and try to create a group of friends. It's not easy, and it doesn't always happen, but you have to try.

It's real time intensive so there's not much time for goofing around, but we are really close and we have a good time with each other. It's a great group.

Here we spent so much time together - eight months of our lives almost - and it was so great because we all got so close and that really made us not afraid to improve with each other.

My thing is, and I've always been this way - to get to know as many people as I possibly can on a personal level, so that way, when you get on the football field, you've got your buddy right beside you, and you're ready to go.

The longer you stand with people, the better it becomes.

One of the things about football is, it's a relationship business.

People want to see how we get teams to come together so quickly. They want to see how we get young guys to play so hard and so unselfish. I'm fine with that. I have no problem sharing that.

You're going to be friends with people longer than you're going to be teammates in this game.

I think players on all teams are close.

The interaction with Marco Reus is also very good. We understand each other very well, both on and off the pitch. If we get along privately, then that affects things on the pitch. We're almost like brothers.

On 'I'm A Celebrity' it's important to have chemistry and to have a friendship as a starting point you can grow from.

Tactics are so important because everybody has to know what they have to do on the pitch. The relationships and behaviours off the pitch between team-mates have to be as good as possible.

I feel that teams with players who are very close end up winning.

Myself, Karl Anderson, and Luke Gallows are best friends. We travel together, we train together, we eat together, and we do a lot of things together.

People talk about how precious the relationships of teammates are and the brotherhood and bond.

If you know people, it's so much more fun working with them because it's like your family is back together again.

I love the bonds you get to build with your teammates, your brothers.

I have a very good relationship with my peers both on and off the pitch.

Teamwork can build friendships that last a lifetime.

When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.

When you're part of an ensemble and share the screen with so many people, you become close to them because you're hanging out all the time. Obviously you have your ups and downs, but that kind of brings you closer in many ways.

When you go on vacation with people, you learn a lot about them.