Clint Dempsey Quotes

There is nothing worse than not being involved. You are sitting there thinking, 'What exactly am I? A footballer who is not playing football?' You feel a bit worthless sitting in the stands, watching all the time.

No one wants to sit on the bench and not play.

I don't like work like that. I am the silent partner. I work through events, I live on the sidelines, I dabble in causes and effects, I watch how the misbegotten creatures of this world live their lives.

I like playing the guy on the sidelines. They have more fun.

Not playing is frustrating; you want to play in every game. But it's the life of a keeper. You'd rather be on the pitch than off.

I do not want to be sitting on the bench.

It is difficult for me to accept that I only sit on the bench in the league.

Nobody likes to sit on the bench.

I'm saying, that just kept, messing it up for everybody! And then everybody on your team doesn't have that drive that you have.

Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.

A player who makes a team great is better than a great player.

Talent is important. But the single most important ingredient after you get the talent is internal leadership. It's not the coaches as much as one single person or people on the team who set higher standards than that team would normally set for itself. I really believe that that's been ultimately important for us.

I think the fitness of players is the key to success. I believe that there should be no place of unfit players in the team because the fit players also start becoming lazy seeing their routine. Having teamwork capabilities is also very important as there comes a lot of times where you have to think beyond your own interest to upkeep the national interest.

The greatest ally you have to get things working well and the players performing as a team is the bench. Don't be afraid to use it, either for the star player or anyone else.

We're showing a lot of the good signs you need for a good team, so I have high hopes.

In great teams conflict becomes productive.

Profile of a winning team - They play to win. They have a winning attitude. They keep improving. They make their teammates more successful.

This may sound arrogant, but I believe that if we'd done teamship better, we'd still be there. Where we fell down was the inability to hold together. We should have learnt from the great football teams. The players may not like each other. They have egos, they have their own ambitions, they have different personalities, but they are still bloody good teams.

We believed it was not our formations that made us good, but rather how we played.

I used to play sports in school, but it was hard to do that because you're part of a team and you don't want to let your team down.

If certain players do not carry out their tasks properly on the pitch then their colleagues will suffer.

Even when you have skilled, motivated, hard-working people, the wrong team structure can undercut their efforts instead of catapulting them to success. A poor team structure can increase development time, reduce quality, damage morale, increase turnover, and ultimately lead to project cancellation.

It's better to have a great team than a team of greats.

I've always said, not giving too much away, I'm a believer in having all your stars on the pitch.