Both at Barca and the Spanish national team we know that the best way to win is by sticking to our philosophy.

When you come in with the national team, there's an adjustment period. Sometimes you don't have time to adjust.

Every time I went to play for my national team, we spent together two months away from our families, as a team.

'A' tours can be considered as a stepping stone to getting into the national team, so they are really important.

I think the national team is more like a traveling circus. It's hard to get that translation into the NWSL teams.

I don't think anyone ever turns down their national team opportunity, but I think it has to be at the right time.

As a player, you want to play for your national team - if you're fit, you play; if you're not fit, you don't play.

I saw Claude Makelele play in the French national team but before when he played at a club I didn't watch him a lot.

It's pretty hard to say no when a vice president-elect and a president-elect ask you to be part of the national team.

Rampone and the other experienced players gave me plenty of support when I first came into the national team in 2013.

It's no easy task to coach the national team. I never realised to what extent one becomes the property of the people.

I want to thank my team mates in the national team and also at Dortmund. It is their work that helps me to score goals.

Yugoslavia is a little country, and everybody likes basketball. If I don't play for my national team, everybody be sad.

The World Cup was the biggest thing ever for the national team, but the Champions League is the biggest thing for clubs.

I cherished every moment with the national team - the good ones and the bad ones - because you learn from your mistakes.

I was a center. I was quite athletic, I could shoot okay and I trained a lot. I played with the national team in Iceland.

You always want to play for your national team whenever you can, so hopefully I can keep my form up and be in the picture.

When I was growing up, you didn't know there was a women's national team. Now girls grow up dreaming of playing for Canada.

If you don't concentrate during a national team match you can just as easily get injured, so I want to make sure I can focus.

Of course there's going to be expectations when you're playing well in the national team. But you just have to deal with that.

When I got to the senior national team, there was another Ronaldo, so they started calling me Ronaldinho because I was younger.

It's great having the best league in the world, no doubt about that, but the downside of that is the national team will suffer.

I have always enjoyed playing cricket in every format and tried to produce my best and bring the best out of the national team.

For me, I have always thought a squad comes before everything. I always make decisions for the good of the French national team.

If you are a player and you don't really retire by yourself there should still be an opportunity to qualify for the national team.

I never heard anything about 'potatoes' or 'kanaken' during my time in the national team. However I have been called 'potato,' too.

I have no idea if anyone is watching me from the Brazil national team, but the best way to have a chance is to do well for Liverpool.

We must lift ourselves for every challenge we face, no matter who you are playing - and that applies especially to the national team.

A national team is a reflection of its country's football, and both Brazil and Argentina have earned respect for what they've achieved.

Yes, the national team is all one team. We are not Real Madrid players, Barcelona players, Celta Vigo players... all of us are a group.

Players must understand that if they go after more lucrative contracts, then they forfeit their chances of playing in the national team.

I was growing up in England and England was the only national team I knew, so I was actually very pleased to play at the national level.

I enjoyed Wembley like all the managers before me, and I would hope that games would still be played there by the England national team.

With the national team I had to go to Newcastle, Wales, I knew a little about England, but Wolves and Birmingham I did not know anything.

Playing as captain of Juve and the national team, with 500 games for Juve and 100 for the national team, it gives you a different serenity.

I had a chance to play for the Cuban national team during the 2009 World Baseball Classic, but at the time I never thought about leaving Cuba.

And at West Ham no one gives you a puzzled look if you get called up for your national team and players are never asked to play on injections.

Lee Chung-yong has been playing well and trying hard at Bolton and has grown in confidence. His improvement is valuable for the national team.

The people of Cleveland hate soccer. But it's my favourite thing and I follow the U.S. men's national team around when they play whenever I can.

We don't sell a car, we sell a dream. We are Italy's national team. There are many great soccer teams in our country, but there is only one Ferrari.

Ndamukong started out playing soccer, like his sister before him. She excelled at it, played for Mississippi State, made the Cameroon national team.

Diouf was one of the best players in the whole history of Senegal. He did a lot for the national team, and everybody knows and respects him for that.

Neymar is the most important player in our national team. His absence is felt when he doesn't play. Same holds true for Barcelona. Such is his impact.

When I was younger it was twice a day with a game on the weekend. Then when I got older, three times a day everyday in college and on the national team.

I have equal respect and love for both England and Ireland, and therefore, the national team I choose to represent is not a clear-cut, simple selection.

I try to dress well. Not just now at Chelsea, but all my career, at my clubs and the national team in Italy, I like to wear a nice suit on the touchline.

I can look forward to that. Getting back over to Europe and playing at a little bit higher level, then hopefully becoming a leader for the national team.

I wish to thank all fans who support me, but the others should be ashamed because I am a born winner and always played my heart out for the national team.

When I was really young, the women's national team wasn't on a grand media stage, so my role models were male basketball and male American football players.

Guardiola, Zidane, who's doing a great work, Tite, also doing a great job in the national team, Simeone. These are managers I would like to work with some day.

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