Filipe Luis Quotes

Ultimately, the team has to come first even though we all have individual goals and preferences.

It's irrelevant how I prefer to play and what I want. It's all about what works for the team.

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

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

The team will always be bigger than any one owner, or any one player, or one coach. The team is always first.

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

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

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.

Good teams I played on... just the tone that they play with, the energy they play with, how they go about it. When you get it going the right way, you get everyone going in the same direction and it's a powerful thing.

I don't believe in an 'all-about-me' culture. It's about the group.

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

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.

A player has to think a lot bigger than himself personally, regardless of his situation.

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

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.

No one player is bigger than the team.

It's always been about the team; it's never been about myself.

It's not the great stars that win; it's the great teams that win. It's the teams that subjugate their ego to the team and put the team first.

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

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.

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.

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.