Diego Costa Quotes

Loyalty and communication are always rewarded in sports.

I'd never be a jerk with my teammates because I know I need them to be successful.

I think that's the key for a good team, to work together like a family. It's something that I've learned over the years with the experience that I've gotten over 10 seasons.

Talent has to be accompanied by effort as well, and that's shared around when you work as a team.

I just wanted to work, build a relationship with my teammates, and earn their trust.

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

You cannot work with men who won't work with you.

Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.

I don't want to have a relationship with someone if I'm not going to work with them.

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

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.

In every relationship, you have to be a team.

Essentially, when you join a team, you're making a commitment to your team. You can't take that lightly.

In every team, you have to win the respect of your team-mates, working a lot and really sweat blood.

You always want to know, What makes a team great? It's the relationships. It's when you take the field, you actually care about each other. And when you care about each other, you play harder, and you trust the guy next to you.

Each player has this quality, this characteristic to help the team as a collective. For me, that is very important.

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

For us to be a really good team, everyone has to guard.

I think that's one of the things that sport teaches you. You are only as good as the team around you.

I want to see given extra effort, pulling for your teammates: those are the kinds of things we're shooting for and we're going for because that's what we need.

You grow year after year with responsibility, and for me, it's not important who has the armband but that everyone on the pitch gives the right signals.

The bottom line is, I want us to rebound, defend, share the ball, play hard. That's all. Now if you can't do that, if that's not important enough to you, it's not on me.

I'm a team player who needs to work a lot and sacrifice myself for the success of the group.

A strong working relationship requires every participant to be on the same page.

I think we're all pros. If we go out there and just play basketball the right way, everything is gonna work itself out.