Gary Cahill Quotes

Obviously when you join a team everything is new and you have to get to know the people and how they operate.

That is what it is like with Pep. At first, you don't understand. But then you grow up, you work, and now we understand the things he wants much better. It's not like the first season when it took him more time to make us understand his ideas. Some players didn't understand immediately what he wanted.

It takes time to settle in and learn a new formation and style of play.

It'll be a challenge for me to come in and fit with a team that's already good.

When people ask me what I miss most about the game, it's being in the locker room and getting to know the guys. Back in those days, we had roommates. We had to talk basketball and that was a great way to understand the game itself and form those lasting relationships.

Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess.

In any team sport, the best teams have consistency and chemistry.

Tactics are so important because everybody has to know what they have to do on the pitch. The relationships and behaviours off the pitch between team-mates have to be as good as possible.

When you have a small, balanced squad, you can work better. First of all everyone is involved in every squad list, a meeting can be a good training session.

You have to communicate - you have to click - to find automatic reactions with your teammates.

There's a real difference between singles tennis and working as part of a team.

It's always good when the offensive head coach and the quarterback think like-minded. That's a good thing.

It's hard for a shortstop to play with a guy you don't know in the middle of the season. If you know a guy early in spring training, you're working with them.

I stay in the middle and my team-mates can go to attack.

It's not easy when you have a new manager because you have to try and adapt yourself to him, the team, training sessions, and the game.

For the triangle to really work, everybody needs to be on the same page and know how to play it.

It's hard to learn a new guy each time out there.

Football is very changeable, particularly at international level when you're not working together every day.

In Naples, I was very lucky to find my players adapted to my way of football. They were strong as players and strong from a human point of view.

We tend to just think about how hard it is to never have thrown to a guy. That is true, every guy has their own way of doing things and you build a rapport with guys throughout the course of the year and throughout practice and all of that.

You learn to respect team chemistry. It's the fourth quarter, there's two minutes left, the shot clock is winding down, and we're like, 'What do we do?' We didn't have that flow. Chemistry comes down to repetition. It's not, 'We've played some games; we have chemistry now.'

No matter whether you are new or an old team member, you need time to adjust to one another.

The top players talk more now, and we have more meetings. We're just trying to get things better. But we still need somebody who could make a difference.

There's a tipping point that happens with soccer in which you just kinda get it. I was drawn to it because the best soccer teams play similarly to my favorite basketball teams - like the eighties Lakers or eighties Celtics - teams that emphasized teamwork over individualism and relied on passing as their biggest ongoing edge.

Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it's a bunch of random people interacting.