Partnerships are not just about bowling in tandem all the time. It all is about helping the other guy get in the right frame of mind.
A player has to think a lot bigger than himself personally, regardless of his situation.
The players don't sit in there and think, 'We have to make the Champions League.' They want to play well in every game.
Too many people look on outscoring someone as winning, I never tried to get that across to my players.
As a playing group you don't go into the game thinking about whether you're the underdog or not.
Now I'm kind of different. I'm not saying I lost my spark - I still have it - but I don't chase the goal as much as I used to. I'm playing for the team and I still know I can score, but it's different than two or three years back.
There were butterflies, otherwise, you're not really ready to play. The locker room, I remember, was quiet and we were very focused on playing that game.
Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference.
Every player feels differently about playing football. We are all different people. I am the type who wants to win all the time. I hate to lose.
We're just going to come out and play. We know that we're supposed to win all the games, but if we don't, we just have to take the next game and focus on what we did wrong in the game before and just try to do better at the next game.
I've been able to contribute to a lot of winning teams in my lifetime. It just comes from my mindset. I've not focused on me individually; it's what the team needs.
I don't think we have to score in every game in order to have a good game.
When I say, 'We're a team,' the reason why I point that out is because at 'All My Children,' that's the mindset. They're a team. And I've said this to other people: They're like a united front.
To be in the national team is wonderful in it's own right. For me, playing against Brazil or Venezuela is the same.
It's important to make sure your players have the mindset that playing international cricket is still the ultimate form of cricket.
I honestly don't judge myself personally. I judge everything based off of my team, what my team is doing.
We cannot change every week our idea and philosophy as a club if you win two games or you don't win two games.
Klopp never wanted us to get carried away. He never wanted us to think of ourselves as champions, even though we were top of the league. He wanted us to focus on ourselves, not to listen to what people were saying about us. It was all about the next game and only the next game.
Every game, we're going to go for it, so when we get into playoff time, it's not like, 'You've really got to ratchet it up. You've really got to do something different.' Then what have I been doing the whole time?
You can't be chasing 338 and still have 5 wickets in the end. It's about mindset and the way you look at the game.
