Jay-Jay Okocha Quotes

The face of the team are the people who're playing on the cricket field. The team is not about one individual.

I believe that having a family in the dressing room is very important when it comes to winning trophies.

Every game means something, the supporters are fantastic, and since I've come to Palace, I've learnt to fight as a team and for the three points.

It's not always the best roster that wins, it's the best team, and sometimes that maybe doesn't jell all that well.

The team that wins the Champions League is the one that is most united.

I just saw over the years that the times that we did remarkable things, it was always because players didn't want to let each other down. Players wanted to lift each other up.

I am one with all my teammates.

I don't think about scoring more goals than a team-mate, only to score.

For us it's important that we should become a team that is not easy to play against.

Messi is an extraordinary player, but your squad is pivotal: at a World Cup, the 11 players on the pitch and everyone else in the group can all play an important role.

I know how important I am to my team, my teammates. They tell me every day.

The thing that you don't understand about college basketball until you're one or two seasons in - and something I've struggled with - is that you have to be 100 percent connected to your other four guys on the court at all times.

You can't have an ego in the bullpen. At the end of the day, we're a group. We're only as good as the sum of our parts. Whatever you're called on to do that day, you've got to be willing to do it for the boys.

I think it's not important if you score 25 or 30 goals: it's important you help the team to win.

I played in Spain, and we also had a very good dressing room, and I won a lot of things. So I think that in my experience of being in dressing rooms, it's so important to have a really good group.

A quarterback has got to take control and I feel like I've done a good job with that. Not just what we're doing offensively, but in the locker room getting to know guys and hanging out with guys. All of that is going to make you a better team.

You need to make sure you have a squad of players who are happy and coming on to do their best for you.

Play well, play regularly, and score goals. Nothing else.

Even if I'm the 15th man on the bench, the first man off the bench, or I'm starting, I'm still part of that team.

Business is a battlefield. You need to be able to go to battle with your team members. Like the military. Know them, trust them, and know who you're working with.

A lot of guys came together quickly as a group, as more than just teammates, as friends. Your family get to know each other, and you become really close, and that's a big part of the team aspect is caring about your teammates off the field, getting to know their kids, their families, their wives.

I am in love with my players; I love my players, but we are aware that the only one that will help us win games is the team.

It's true that it's good to have a good striker, but you have to win.

I got a bond with all my teammates. Well, the ones that's real. The ones that I'm cool with, I'm cool with. It's a bond and a brotherhood.

To have the support of your team-mates is massive.