Georginio Wijnaldum Quotes

I may see a way I want to do something, and I understand when you have a team, everybody can't do their own thing. I'm willing to put my own agenda aside to do what's best for the team.

We have to do what's best for the team.

For me, honestly, it's not about individual accomplishments, individual award. It's about what I've got to do and how I can contribute to the team.

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

You can't expect every idea of yours to stick or even come to fruition, you have to make sacrifices for the greater good of the team.

I've always dreamed about playing for a team that's unselfish.

I try to do what's best for the team.

Companies are communities. There's a spirit of working together. Communities are not a place where a few people allow themselves to be singled out as solely responsible for success.

There was a time in my career when my hackles would really get raised if someone came in and said, 'We need you to do this or that.' But the fact of the matter is, you're working in a shared universe, and all elements of the universe are, ideally, going to mesh and work together. That's my goal. I want to be on the team.

How can you create a team and bring all these egos together? The main goal for Manchester United is for them to play well - and not have a player saying, 'I play well; I scored two goals'. Because if I score two goals, but three goals go into our net, then we lose.

You have to win with the team and for the team.

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

It is good to kind of put your pride aside for the betterment of the ball club. We are all on board for that, even if you want to go another inning.

Teamwork requires some sacrifice up front; people who work as a team have to put the collective needs of the group ahead of their individual interests.

Team spirit is paramount - each of our own egos has to take a back seat. That applies to me as well as everyone else.

Personal achievements don't matter to me; victory of the team does.

The personal interests of the individual players must be put aside.

You cannot win a game of football on your own; it's about the entire squad working together to achieve something. That's how football works: it has always been about the group, not the individual.

Once you work for your team-mates and help each other - thinking about them before you think about yourself - it always works out.

If you're only focusing on yourself, then you're not going to help the team.

I want to do what's best for the team, always.

Being part of the Dutch national team is about unity and not about rivalry.

I always make decisions for the good of the team of France.

The point of the game is not how well the individual does, but whether the team wins. That's the beautiful heart of the game, the blending of personalities, the mutual sacrifices for the group success.

A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group - that's teamwork.