Player Synergy Quotes

That's when I'm at my best: when I'm surrounded by good players.

You thrive off everybody on your team. If one guy's playing well, that makes your job easier. If a guy's shooting well, it makes your job easier. If a guy's rebounding well, it makes your job easier.

Playing in a team like Arsenal helps massively having all of these players around you giving you advice. When they are playing well, you feel comfortable, and it helps you to play well, too.

I don't believe many teams can do it just with one really, really good player. You have to be surrounded with a good cast.

Player X might be the best outside back, but does that player help the best wide player be as good?

I would love to play alongside Wayne Rooney. He does the running of two or three players and makes a lot of space. We would be the perfect combination.

Montana and I had a chemistry that was unbelievable. When I first came into the league he told me I added five years to his career, and I just think we complimented each other very well and were able to do some amazing things out on the football field.

It's never just about one player. Together, you have to figure out other ways to score and get opportunities.

You don't have to be best friends as basketball players but I do believe in chemistry. I think it makes everything different if a team is really together and they're all on that same page. They might not like each other, per se, but if you're on the same page and the chemistry is there, you can play great basketball. You can go back to teams like Detroit, the Bad Boys. Those guys had great chemistry, that's why they won.

You can have really good statistics, which are really good, and it's a serious advantage, but when push comes to shove, it's about players communicating and players playing together.

I've got a magnificent relationship with Leo (Messi) and Ney (Neymar). They drive the team, with Andres Iniesta as well - what a player. You know if you have a good relationship with them off the pitch it will be that way on the pitch too. They took it as a sign that I had come to help them, not to compete with them.

I always think how I should play to make the most out of my teammates' abilities and their established styles.

When you have a player like Tyus Jones, instantly chemistry is made.

It is possible to sign many great players, but you cannot buy a team.

It always helps to play every game at the back with the same players. You get a good understanding of each other and how one of you works, and what positions to take up.

Great players will always be able to play with other great players.

Individual players don't win titles no matter how good you are as a player. The best players in the world need a team around them. It is about the team, and we are playing for the badge.

England's is a very solid squad, but I can't name a particular player; a team is all the players, and they're good.

You know when you put two great players together, you're going to have to work through some things.

A big part of my game is movement. The players that I play with understand that and took the time to see where I like to run, and it's worked out.

It would be in my interest to have great players around me because, if you're playing with good players, it makes your job a lot easier.

I think the Premier League suits my game, but it also depends on who I have next to me because I need to be surrounded by players with certain characteristics.

When you've got players like Carlos Sanchez, Fabian Delph, and Tom Cleverley behind you, it makes it easy with Christian Benteke and Gabby Agbonlahor in front of me.

The Barcelona players have reached an amazing mutual understanding that they can play with their eyes closed.

In 2001, '02, and '03, our forward line had Gagan Ajit, Prabhjot, Deepak, who were playing together since junior days. Their coordination was terrific.