A Quote by Dimitar Berbatov

I can't play for the national team if I'm not playing for my club.

Dimitar Berbatov

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Dimitar Berbatov
Bulgarian - Athlete
Born: January 30, 1981

When my ban was relaxed I began playing club cricket. Imagine, for a person who had played at Lord's, to play with a club team who didn't have proper kit against another club team in Lahore.

Mohammad Amir

You cannot compare the way someone plays for a club and for a national team. At a club, you spend every day with the same players. In a national team, you are with your team-mates for only a few days.

Robert Pires

Playing for the national team is not the same as playing for your club.

Niko Kovac

It had never been a decision to choose between the French national team or the Senegalese national team because I was growing up in France and playing in the French youth national team, so it was something really normal.

Patrick Vieira

When you're with your club team, every week you have a performance to judge. But when you're with the national team, it's a little different because you might not play for three or four months at a time. Things change constantly.

Landon Donovan

It's hard to think about the national team when you are with your club side and so invested in your team, your individual self and trying to win a play-off series.

Joe Ingles

If you play well at club level, then, you deserve an invitation for the national team. That's the way it goes.

Klaas-Jan Huntelaar

Every club if I am not playing, I leave because I want to play football. All I wanted to do since I was a kid is play football and if I wasn't at a club I'd be playing with my mates on a Sunday. I still come home and play five-a-side with my mates.

Kevin Kilbane

I enjoyed playing for the national team, the French national team, because I think France gave me a lot and gave my family a lot, so to wear the French national team shirt was really good, and I wore it with pride.

Patrick Vieira

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.

N'Golo Kante

Around the age of 14, I was very discouraged from a coach. It was my first youth club team while playing soccer. She told me at the time that I wasn't good enough to play on the team, that I would never get into the game.

Alex Morgan

While we play for the club we are focused on usual routine, but when we are with the national team and the new kit is unveiled we feel closer to the World Cup.

Giorgio Chiellini

The national team is part of my life. I have an incredible history, of many conquests and also many defeats. But to play for Brazil, I have to have a club and play well. I'm not going to be picked on my past or because of my sponsor, as many have said.

Ronaldo

It's not easy, especially for a German national team player who did great things in the past and maybe is struggling. That's why I think most of the German national team play abroad because if you don't play for Bayern Munich and you don't always win, it's difficult.