Gareth Bale Quotes

Pep has made me understand the game more: not just how I play but also how the team has to play, because I am just a component.

I wasn't a guy who looked to score first. It was to get your teammates involved, to understand time and clock management and having fun with your teammates.

I always think how I should play to make the most out of my teammates' abilities and their established styles.

It's a team game, and you need to be flexible.

There is so much interaction in a football match: between you and your team-mates and how you support each other, work for each other, make runs. But I also enjoy the other aspect: the pressing and how people work so hard to recover the ball.

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 think it's very useful when you want to be the team who create. You need to create this superiority at the back when you build up using the goalkeepers.

I have to play with discipline in midfield.

You have to adapt to different teams and different players, but you have try to maintain your discipline and score goals.

Playing with people like Cesc Fabregas makes it easy for you. He will talk to you and talk you through games.

It is difficult to click your fingers and say, 'Right, go and play that formation now.'

If the right people do the right things, we can walk, we can have a future. But if people don't put time into it to make it run in a right way, I don't think your team will work.

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

I've always been a good ensemble player.

You can lead a team in a lot of different ways. It can be talking to somebody who is down or, during the course of a game, looking to penetrate and then dropping the ball off to someone else for an easy bucket.

In football, it's the ultimate team sport. You have to have good people around you as a quarterback for things to happen.

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

People have to understand what my game is. It's not all about numbers. There's a bigger picture here. I don't create off the dribble. I rely on my teammates; my role is to set screens and get rebounds.

When I step on that basketball court, I'm thinking about basketball, I'm thinking about winning - but there's so much that goes into thought about how I'm going to open this game up to others. It's so much more than just basketball.

Some of the onus falls on us to make ourselves available for the ball, because we need to play inside-out. That's when we're at our best.

In any team sport, the best teams have consistency and chemistry.

I consider myself very much a team player.

Thanks to my football experience, I know the value of team play. It is, I believe, one of the most important lessons to be learned and practiced.

My role at Lockheed Martin puts me in contact with extraordinary leaders in many fields - from science and engineering to philanthropy and government. And since we also work closely with our nation's armed forces, we tend to reflect a lot on leadership and how we can inspire successful teamwork, cooperation, and partnerships.

There's a way to win, and a way to play, and when you play like that, the ball's moving and guys are looking for each other, the game is fun.