Soccer Teamwork Quotes

"If you're attacking, you don't get as tired as when you're chasing."

- Kyle Rote, Jr.

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"Choose the best players for every position and you'll end up not with a strong 11, but with 11 strong 1's"

- Johan Cruyff

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"As someone who played a team sport, I feel a bit uncomfortable being ranked as an individual so high."

- Franz Beckenbauer

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"Average soccer players complicate the game, great players simplify it."

- Thierry Henry

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"You pressure, you want possession, you want to attack. Some teams can't or don't pass the ball. What are you playing for? What's the point? That's not football. Combine, pass, play. That's football – for me, at least."

- Xavi

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"The work of a team should always embrace a great player, but the great player must always work"

- Sir Alex Ferguson

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"Possession means nothing when the opponent takes its chances."

- Franz Beckenbauer

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"Football is made up of all kinds of conflict. In a dressing room, between players, between us and the manager, between us and loads of people who don't seem to matter. It's constant and harsh sometimes."

- Wayne Rooney

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"I have 23 top players and they are all ready to put on the jersey and work on the pitch and that makes you happy and then you have peace of mind."

- Diego Maradona

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"I told my players during the break: Since we're here anyway, we might actually play a bit of football'."

- Jurgen Klopp

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