Emre Can Quotes

The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

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

Part of an ensemble show is realizing it's a collaboration. It's like a symphony. Everybody takes their turn, but it's really the collective group that matters.

There is so much interaction in a football match: between you and your team-mates and how you support each other, work for each other, make runs. But I also enjoy the other aspect: the pressing and how people work so hard to recover the ball.

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.

It's not about someone making a difference on their own; it's about everybody pulling together to make a difference.

If you do all the little things - like being in the right position, pressing at the right moments, working for the team in a smart way - if you do all those things as a group, then at the end of the game, you will be rewarded. Once you stop doing that as a group, the opposition will always find some gaps, some spaces.

What I want is to recover the ball as near to the other box as we can, and when we have the ball, play.

When we have the ball, we're all offensive players. When we lose the ball, we're all defensive players.

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

And what I liked the most about any project was that when it was good, you had a bunch of people trying to accomplish something together who were all acting together as one - that's the most exciting time for me.

To get things done, you have to get people together.

I think you have everyone kind of pulling on the same end of the rope. It's not like you're Robin Williams and everyone else is a deaf mute. It's like - there's plenty of help.

You can't win if you don't play as a unit.

When many work together for a goal, Great things may be accomplished. It is said a lion cub was killed By a single colony of ants.

I love work. I love putting together a group of people who are all doing the same thing. The commonality of purpose.

You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.

To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

It's not any one person. It's not any one coach. It's the team.

You're only as good as the sum of your parts, and one person can't be a team.

The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.

Within an ensemble, like in sports, if you do your little job, it makes everybody look good.