Ander Herrera Quotes

The coaches can only put us in the right position, but it's up to the players to take the action.

Every day, when I am working with my boys, I tell them as long as you put in your best efforts, I am there to back you. But the day I find your energy flagging on the field, the day I find you have not put in your best, that's when I will be really upset and sad.

As a captain and as a player I wanted to lead the team well and score runs, because I know the team still depends on me very much.

I really don't care about stats. I don't care about any of that stuff. I just care about performing each and every weekend and helping my team win ball games.

If I came in and didn't rebound, that would look bad on my part. People would be wondering, what was he doing the whole time?

As long as my guys are out there and doing what I'm asking, and they're giving their best, I don't think anybody can ask for much more than that.

When you give your team five innings, you don't really feel good about five innings.

You work all season to earn the trust of your teammates and the coaching staff.

I think there's nothing that's not important. Everything you do - from how you connect with the guys in the locker room, to how you learn, to how you play on the field - everything's important; everything goes with the position.

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.

We know that in order for us to turn this around, it doesn't matter how many coaches they bring in here, assistants, weight trainers, whoever, we're the ones that are going to have turn it around. And I think just took that responsibility on ourselves.

In the IPL, you are often single-handedly responsible for the fortunes of your team. It makes you more responsible as a player.

But as coaches, we need to get a little more fire and passion and be more demanding that our guys get the job done. I think players will respond to that, and we'll see.

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

Sam is there, Sam has been playing well, he has been doing great in camp.

Obviously you have to have talent in order to play so you can't overlook that, but we won't overlook the character issue when it comes to talent because if they have talent and they don't have character, it's going to be very difficult to coach that person.

I hold head coaches accountable.

I go out there with whatever the coaches call, and whatever they do, I just go out there, and I'm the player. Coaches coach, and players play.

To say that the captain makes the team lose or win is not correct.

The manager picks the team and the team has got to go out and do its best.

I made it pretty clear that if I'm captain, the best team has to play.

As players, whenever the manager gets the sack, you have to look in the mirror and say it's not always the manager. It's down to the players.

I can control how hard I play. This is how I respond to coaching. This is how I respond to my teammates. If I focus on that, the other things that come with that are going to come.

My individual role is to take the innings as deep as I can and perform in a way that benefits the team most.

Some people think all I did was trash talk. But ask my teammates, coaches - they saw how hard I worked, how hard I prepared.