Per Mertesacker Quotes

At the end of the day, nobody is bigger than the team.

I'm not a selfish actor. I believe that it's a team effort. You're not in a scene by yourself.

Our football program is bigger than any one person.

I am constantly being asked about individuals. The only way to win is as a team. Football is not about one or two or three star players.

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.

I know it's not a one man team win or lose.

A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team.

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

I love getting to be in 'The Avengers.' You just breathe a little bit. It's not all about you. It's so nice to have other people bearing the burden of responsibility.

Hockey is not a one-man show; it's a team effort. If you don't work as a team - even if one or two guys aren't working - you're not going to win. That's the way it is.

Individual quality doesn't decide games for us but the whole team.

This isn't tennis or track. This is basketball. It's more about the team than self. There are four other guys on the court with you.

We all need to chip in with goals and assists. It's not just the front three. It's not just the defence that keeps clean sheets, either. It's a team game.

Players count for nothing. The team is everything.

You have one captain but, for me, it should be everyone who says something and help each other, then you can be a great team.

You need to defend as a team to defend well.

If they focus on me too often, somebody's going to be wide open. It's all about playing together and playing as a team.

Each person on a team has a responsibility and a role, and knowing the value of each individual and what they bring to the table is something very special and unique.

I do not speak of specific mistakes because when we win, we all win and when we lose we all lose, they are team mistakes.

With Zidane the team feels like if we win, we all win, and if we lose, we all lose.

You know that without the whole team working together, it's a very hard job for the defenders, so everyone plays a part.

Every single player has to take responsibility for what they do. Look at the Manchester United team that won the Champions League in 2008, they didn't have a 'leader' like Roy Keane any more.

I wrote '33 Men' in eight weeks. Not only was it a combination of simultaneously writing and interviewing, but as I dug deeper into the miners' story, I found the key to their success was the ability to place their individuality on the back burner and bring forward the sense of a collective group responsibility.

I think the only thing that matters is you win as a team and you lose as a team. And so the team needs to understand that no one player is bigger than any other player. Everybody has a role... Every single role is important.

This is a team game and one man doesn't win and one man doesn't lose. In the end, the best team usually wins.