Michael Laudrup Quotes

I love being around my teammates, and I love leading and having responsibility.

If you trust in an idea of football, and you trust in the team, it's important to have a squad with good balance.

Popovich is always talking about team.

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.

When you work with Mourinho, you have to know that the group, the collective is above the individual.

A team is a group of young men playing together. The program is the entirety of that.

The nature of a football team means you're relying on 10 other guys. Even then, that doesn't guarantee a win.

When I'm playing football, it's what I know; it's what I'm good at. The spotlight is not just on you: you're with 10 of your team-mates. I could have done other sports, like tennis and athletics, but I like being part of a team where it's not just about you; it's about everybody.

When I was on the Ryder Cup team and I surrounded myself with the other 11 guys and our captains, being in that locker room, it gave me an extra sense of confidence.

People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.

I don't view myself as a team manager, but a team captain. I'm part of the team, but everybody else as well.

One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other's company. I don't like discussing cricket off the field.

I think it's an extremely important factor to have your team together. It goes back to having distractions. When you all stay together for a period of time you're not training people or feeling out different personalities.

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

I won't miss coaching. What you miss is that camaraderie with those boys and the other coaches. You miss that.

Baseball is not a sport you can achieve individually.

It's just good to be back in the locker room.

I had a couple friends from all the different cliques in school, but my true friends were my gymnastics teammates. I grew up competing with them for ten years.

In high school I was the manager of the football team, so being around boys is natural to me!

I believe in work, in connections between the players, I think what makes football great is that it is a team sport. You can win in different ways, by being more of a team, or by having better individual players. It is the team ethic that interests me, always.

Every team has to have a quarterback. You can't have two quarterbacks.

When you're a member of a team, when I was member of a team, whether I ultimately agreed or disagreed, once a president makes a decision, everybody, in my opinion, has to go with that decision, or you shouldn't be a member of the team. Your reputation rises and falls with the person who's the leader of the team.

You cannot treat someone differently just because they have become captain. We still took the mickey out of Alastair Cook when he was in charge. You have to treat them first and foremost as a team-mate.

The beauty of football is that it's about 11, and another five, at least, are sitting outside. You cannot get competitive.

It's difficult to gel players.