Team Growth Quotes

The only improvement I know in football is through work, it is the only way for the team to grow.

Whether we win 60 games or not, you build your habits back and get better that way. It may not be 60 wins, but you get better as a team.

I have seen the Raiders develop into what they are today.

It's about the process. It's about getting better. 'Let's execute on this play, let's execute on this drive.' You do those things, and over the course of the season you'll get better as a team and you'll get to a point where hopefully you're playing at a high level to win the games that really become at another level.

Complacency is the last hurdle standing between any team and its potential greatness.

My management skills are more suited to developing teams to be better than what they were before, and not just about avoiding relegation.

Back in 2005, we lost in the semi-final of the World Cup and that was a great learning curve for the team. It gave us a goal and even more of a hunger to win the World Cup, so we went away and set ourselves a long-term plan to do it.

When you talk about goals, you look at your team last year and you want to move the meter a little bit. You don't want to go back and be the same team that you were last year, so we have tried to get better in some ways.

I think there are always growing pains with teams.

Juventus is growing, year after year, and we need a champion like Cristiano.

We have played a very good side, playing at the sort of level we are aspiring to. We need to come up a couple of levels ourselves because at the moment we are not there.

When I used to recruit in college, my sole job was to out-recruit what I had. And if I did that, I knew we would grow and be successful.

In football, any team can still improve, in every sense.

There comes a point in every season for every team that you start to separate yourself, and you see the league do that every year.

I am really proud of the development of the people on my team as they grow in purpose; they like what they see in the mirror.

Raising capital is not the toughest part. The toughest part is building a great team and making sure it's growing with the company.

My team and my fans are going to keep growing and getting better and making a name for ourselves.

If your a leader, do everything you can to grow yourself and create the right environment for others to grow.

I think how football works, the way you have to look at football, that is the difference between Leicester and Newcastle. There is big motivation here to keep growing and to get better here at Leicester. I didn't feel they had it at Newcastle.

It's not about how many games we win with me as captain, it's about us being consistently getting better over a long period of time and looking to be that number one side in the world.

The biggest message I've given our team, and I think it's really important, is first of all, no one can take away what happened last year. It's obviously a fun year, a terrific year. But I think a big mistake would be to try to compare themselves or ourselves to last year's team. I think the key really is, and I told them this: for you as a group, you're a different team.

I began my journey as a captain when I was just 21-22 and leading the Indian side for so many years has helped me also grow as a person. My growth as a person pretty much has happened on the ground along with teammates.

Accountability is essential to personal growth, as well as team growth. How can you improve if you're never wrong? If you don't admit a mistake and take responsibility for it, you're bound to make the same one again.

Of course money is important - to say it is not in football would be a lie. But to find a good player with potential for a small amount of money and then to develop him in the group is a great pleasure for a manager and for a club.

This whole thing's about development. Not only are we trying to develop players, we're trying to develop ourselves.