Home / Quotes / Quote by Philipp Lahm

Quote by Philipp Lahm

“Whether we have the best individual players doesnt matter, you have to have the best team”

Quote by Philipp Lahm

Author

Philipp Lahm (born November 11, 1983) is a retired German professional soccer player who played as a full-back. Known for his defensive skills, precise passing, and leadership, he spent most of his career at Bayern Munich, captaining the club to multiple Bundesliga titles and the 2013 UEFA Champions League. He also captained the German national team to victory at the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Lahm is widely regarded as one of the greatest full-backs in soccer history, praised for his tactical intelligence and consistency. After retiring, he has worked in soccer management. more

You May Also Like

“We cannot win this World Cup, because we are not at that level yet. For us, we have to play the game of our lives seven times to win the tournament.”

World Play Games Winning Levels Our Lives This World Seven Cups Tournaments World Cup

Author:Jurgen Klinsmann

“If there's a national-team player, he has to do extra work. He has to do extra weeks, and he can't go on vacation even if he says: 'Well, but I'm supposed now to have six weeks off.' If he comes and says that, then I give him a hug and say: 'Have fun the six weeks, but don't come back here.'”

Ifs Giving Wells Fun Player Week Team Goes On Six Having Fun Extras Vacation Hug Team Player National Team Extra Work

Author:Jurgen Klinsmann

“This was a new recognition that perfection is admirable but a trifle inhuman, and that a stumbling kind of semi-success can be much more warming. Most of all, perhaps, these exultant yells for the Mets were also yells for ourselves, and came from a wry, half-understood recognition that there is more Met than Yankee in every one of us. I knew for whom that foghorn blew; it blew for me.”

Kind Half Mets Understood Perfection Recognition Yankees Admirable Trifles Stumbling Inhuman Wry

Author:Roger Angell

“What the dead don't know piles up, though we don't notice it at first. They don't know how we're getting along without them, of course, dealing with the hours and days that now accrue so quickly, and, unless they divined this somehow in advance, they don't know that we don't want this inexorable onslaught of breakfasts and phone calls and going to the bank, all this stepping along, because we don't want anything extraneous to get in the way of what we feel about them or the ways we want to hold them in mind.”

Knows Way Want Feels Mind Firsts Courses Hours Know How Phones Breakfast Phone Calls Inexorable Getting Along

Author:Roger Angell

“I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.”

Want Player Baseball Presses Scared Boxes Faking It

Author:Roger Angell

“The great thing about catchers is that they do a lot of different things, and they're basically overlooked.”

Different Great Things Different Things Overlooked Catchers

Author:Roger Angell

“Friends of mine said later that they had been riveted by a postgame television close-up of Wade Boggs, sitting alone in the dugout with tears streaming down his face …. I suppose we should all try to find something better or worse to shed tears for than a game, no matter how hard it has been played, but perhaps it is not such a bad thing to see that men can cry at all.”

Men Should Trying Has Beens Said Matter Hard Faces Games Cry Television Tears Mines Sitting Bad Things Shed Something Better Wade Streaming Sitting Alone

Author:Roger Angell

“Our stories about our own lives are a form of fiction, I began to see and become more insistent as we grow older, even as we try to make them come out in some other way.”

Way Trying Stories Form Grows Fiction

Book:Let Me Finish

Source: Let Me Finish

“Life is tough and brimming with loss, and the most we can do about it is to glimpse ourselves clear now and then, and find out what we feel about familiar scenes and recurring faces this time around.”

Feels Faces Life Is Can Do Loss Clear Scene Tough Familiar Now And Then Glimpse Recurring Life Is Tough

Book:Let Me Finish

Source: Let Me Finish

“Cub fans, by consensus, are the best in baseball. Year after year, in good times and (mostly) bad, they turn out in vociferous numbers, sustaining themselves with a heavenly ichor that combines loyalty, criticism, cheerfulness, durability, rage, beer and hope, in exquisite proportions.”

Years Turns Numbers Fans Criticism Baseball Rage Loyalty Beer Proportion Good Times Heavenly Consensus Exquisite Cheerfulness Sustaining Cubs Durability

Book:The Roger Angell Baseball Collection: The Summer Game, Five Seasons, and Season Ticket

Source: The Roger Angell Baseball Collection: The Summer Game, Five Seasons, and Season Ticket