Player Chemistry Quotes

You cannot buy players and know, for sure, that they can deliver. You cannot know because football is a team sport.

Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.

David Silva at Man City was my favourite player to play with; we had a good understanding on the pitch.

When your great players are team players, everybody else follows their lead. The best team doesn't always win - it's usually the team that gets along best.

They said you have to use your five best players but I found you win with the five who fit together the best.

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

I think that my career speaks for itself and shows the type of player I am. I have never had a teammate who didn't enjoy playing with me. There are always going to be skeptics, but chemistry will definitely not be an issue.

I've turned down a lot of trades where I might have gotten a better player, but I wasn't totally sure of the chemistry of that new player coming in. Even though he might possess golden ability, his personality and the way he gets along with teammates might be things you just don't want to cope with.

I have a natural connection with Romelu. We stay most days after training and meet up to practice my crosses and him getting on the end of them. He is a top player, and he takes up the best positions for an old-fashioned winger like myself.

There's always two or three players I like, and why I like them, I can't tell you. There's just something about them I think would be great on a team.

I've always wanted to shoot a good percentage for my team, because I'm the point guard, and I can take fewer shots, still score more, so that I can get my teammates feeling good about themselves. That was always my feeling - that if I shoot a high percentage, I don't have to shoot a ton.

I think the NBA just, overall, when you need somebody to blame, the first person that you go to is the coach. But at the end of the day, you need the right players that match each other. Not just the best players. Chemistry helps.

When you have a player like Tyus Jones, instantly chemistry is made.

It's easy to get good players. Getting them to play together, that's the hard part.

When you make your final list for the World Cup or European Championship you don't take the 23 best players, that is for sure.

Strikers love to play with other strikers, as I did with Sergio Aguero, Luis Suarez, and Edinson Cavani. You can make the most of your individual talents for the good of the team. If you can strike up a good partnership with another player, it's like striking gold.

You can run 20km, 80, 100, and if there's no spirit between the players, the coaches, as colleagues, it won't come out as well.

I think Carmelo is a great player. He makes players around him better. Whatever thing, whatever Carmelo wants me to do, I will do that out on the court just to prove that I'm worthy enough to be on the court with him, starting with the dirty jobs - just getting rebounds, getting shots, getting blocks, and just running the court.

People seem to expect when that happens, for players to be brought in that are so much better than the ones that have left. In the end they might be better but in the beginning they might be worse. Because they all have to gel and get to know each other and get to know you.

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

It's all right buying all these good players but they've got to gel, and that takes time.

To have a successful team, you have to have great players of course - but you have to have good personalities and good people as well.

It's hard for a shortstop to play with a guy you don't know in the middle of the season. If you know a guy early in spring training, you're working with them.

I think the Premier League suits my game, but it also depends on who I have next to me because I need to be surrounded by players with certain characteristics.

For its part, one of the keys of Tottenham is that it has players who know each other very well for two or three years. They have not made changes and are managed by the same coach, Mauricio Pochettino. Therefore, they perfectly apply the idea of team and style of play.