Patrick Vieira Quotes

As coaches say, it's about finding your role. We're coming together as a team.

The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.

It takes a lot of people to make a winning team. Everybody's contribution is important.

So I think we got together as the Academy to give ourselves that sort of responsibility and to play well.

I just want to contribute to my team and earn the trust and do everything they need from me.

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

If the team needs you, you need to sacrifice.

If the players understand and accept that their leader is steering their direction through thoughtful, careful measures, then they will pull together to give the best effort every time.

I am not going to be the guy who's not pulling his weight.

It's not any one person. It's not any one coach. It's the team.

You're only as good as the sum of your parts, and one person can't be a team.

We have to back each other up no matter what. Defense, you have to do your job, and offense has to do theirs.

Within an ensemble, like in sports, if you do your little job, it makes everybody look good.

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

I'd rather play with 10 people and just get penalized all the way until we have to do something else rather than play with 11 when I know that right now that person is not sold out to be a part of this team.

I think our strength is this strong relationship we have all together.

A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play.

We work as a team. I think having the individual being shown as a star actually creates problems internally. We encourage all our investors to work as a team for the benefit of the founders.

Business is a team sport.

You are only as good as your team.

Like a lot of people, I have been a leader in some things, and I've been a follower in some things. I know how to work on a team. And most of life, frankly, to get things done you have to get done, you've got to work as a team.

I like being part of a team.

I really do need the help of other people working with me.

You can't have an ego when you're a team. One person can't really rule the roost.

We need the whole squad, every player of the team, if we are to be successful.