I had no idea who my team-mates at Genoa were when I signed, so I turned on my PlayStation and looked them up on FIFA.
It's essential to be able to communicate in English, to talk to my team-mates and then in my personal life outside the football.
After you've had Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna as team-mates you don't give a **** who the next bloke is
I love working with my band-mates in Alkaline Trio, but to make a rock record that was just mine was something that I wanted to do.
I'm usually a No. 10, and the thing I most enjoy is helping my team-mates and creating goal-scoring chances for them.
I want to take people out of their comfort zones and teach them to rely on their team-mates.
We prefer to find mates who are roughly as attractive as we are, which means they are more likely to stay and not look for a better offer.
I live in a flat with my three best mates from university, none of whom are actors. It keeps you grounded.
I'd gone very quickly from playing in a park with my mates to sitting next to Wayne Rooney at dinner. It was a bit weird.
The calmness and confidence I take into matches has an effect not only on our rivals but also on my team-mates, who are counting on me.
I spend six months of the year on cruises. Travelling the world with your mates, it's such good fun and I hope that comes across.
Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
Firmino is the most decisive player because he comes to play between the lines and opens the spaces to his team-mates.
I'm a goal scorer, so I'm here to score goals, but at the end of the day, I want to help my team-mates reach something, so we are working hard.
The best I've played against is Luis Figo. As for team-mates, it has to be Zinedine Zidane. He made things easier for everybody.
I give my best for my team-mates. At Leicester it was like that and everyone was focused for the title and we did it. Here at Chelsea it's the same.
On 'This Is England,' everyone is mates. The nice thing is that when you watch us, you're watching a gang. They're young, and they're adventurous. There's a real closeness there.
I'd been writing jokes since I was 16, not very good ones though, but I was always trying to make my mates laugh.
I hardly ever go to showbiz parties, it's not my style. That doesn't mean to say I don't have a good time. I love hanging out with mates.
Love came when you weren't looking, except in the case of millions who found mates on Match.com, but, hey. It sounded good.
I've no grand designs to conquer the music industry, but I'd love to be able to tell my mates that I'm playing in a pub in Camden one night.
I really like lads and grew up with two brothers and all of their mates. I'm also close to several actors that I've played opposite.
It really is considered one of the blessings of previous mates which you could manage being silly with them.
It's important not to ditch your mates when you're in a relationship. Lots of girls do it, but you need to remember they will always be there for you.
When your mates break up with their boyfriends, it's hard to see, but not all relationships last forever. Let's be realistic.
My mates are absolute nutters. They're all Essex boys in the true sense and they definitely keep my feet on the ground.
Throughout all my career, I have been an honest person, responsible, and respectful of my team-mates and the clubs that I have played for and the countries I have lived in.
I watched football, but I was a kid who really preferred being out on the street with my mates playing hide and seek!
Over the summer, you do have to take that time to relax and go on holiday with your mates and get away from football.
I want to thank all my team-mates as well as the opponents in red ball cricket. It has been a privilege to play with and against them.
I'd beg to differ from the common perception that real-life soul mates don't make a good pair on camera.
Howard Dean is narrowing the field of potential running mates. It's down to Mike Tyson or Bobby Knight.
There will be a Jussie Smollett album. I signed to Columbia. So, darling, I'm label mates with Beyonce and Adele and Barbra Streisand.
I didn't do very well at school - teachers picked on me, I'm sure of it - and I'd stay out all hours of the night with my mates.
The best comedy you can ever have is when you're in the pub with your mates. You can never beat that. That's what I try to recreate in stand-up.
I had that whole banter with the police. My mates used to make up raps about Dad being a policeman, it's hilarious.
Nobody could say it is not gross misconduct to fight on the pitch with team-mates and get yourself sent off.
I like to have the ball, to have possession and to play passes, to create chances for my team-mates. I think that is what makes me strong.
It is important that it - sometimes there are clashes between team-mates. We need each other to tell the truth, and this is not always a positive.
It can be a lonely place when you are injured. You miss being out there with your team-mates and just experiencing the highs and the lows.
Loose Women' is fantastic. It's great working with a group of strong, feisty females, who are also your mates. It's like therapy.
I want to improve and learn and get better. To do that, I have to keep putting in good performances and help my team-mates around me.
I had mates who lived in tower blocks and I always hated seeing them, because of the lifts, y'know? My God, so scary.
I am my own audience. I always picture me and my mates and think, 'What would we enjoy listening to?'
Growing up, my mates and I would have rather been Sid Vicious or members of the Royal Family.
Never resign. There's always a chance your opponent may drop dead before he mates you.
I want to play for England, I wear my heart on my sleeve, and I give it everything I can, not just for me but for my team-mates as well.
All my mates are massive Leeds fans because I live in Wakefield, but my best friend in the entire world is the Middlesbrough chairman.
My team-mates always offer me lots of lines to pass, so that ends up being easier for my role.
I didn't enjoy Rio. My team-mates were great but some of the staff made it a really negative place.
What? We can't beat Arsenal? My team-mates were insecure and that shocked me, I had come from Real Madrid where I won everything.
I support my team-mates wherever they need it, and if someone else plays instead of me, I'm fully behind him.
It's like there's some unwritten rule that if you're mates, you can say what you want to each other, and you don't really get that annoyed about it.
When you have to play football, you do it in the knowledge that there's a lot riding on the match, be it money, your team-mates, or the feelings of the fans.
When you are part of a group for seven years, you leave something - I hope - beautiful inside each of your former team-mates.
I'm a pretty normal person outside of the film world. It doesn't really affect me when I'm at school or with my mates.
A lot of people are looking for their soul mates. Along the way, it's nice to bump into some genital pals.
Me and a lot of my team-mates still think and speak about the World Cup in 1994, when Sweden finished third.
It's not easy for a foreigner to come to England and win the respect of your team-mates, of the fans, and of the English people.
I heard my new team-mates saying, 'We have got to hope that we don't go down.' I thought to myself, 'What kind of a mentality is that?'
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