Because Quote by Landon Donovan

You cannot compare the way someone plays for a club and for a national team. At a club, you spend every day with the…

— Robert Pires

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

— Clint Dempsey

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…

— Joe Ingles

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

— Niko Kovac

When you play with a big club, you need to get results every single day, even more when a homegrown player goes into the…

— Bojan Krkic

With the national team, you never know how long you've got, so you always have to be pushing and making the most of it.

— Clint Dempsey

With a national team, you've just got to be even more focused on what's most important because the time you've got with the players…

— Roy Hodgson

I tend to explain to players every two or three weeks why they are not playing and that is an issue in our team…

— Ralf Rangnick

Not everything, always, is about your performance. It's about the team performance. When the team is not playing well, then normally, you will not…

— Gerard Pique

Whenever you join a club you look at the schedule to see when you can play the team you left.

— Demba Ba

In club football you have your players and staff with you all the time, preparing for two games a week, you know them inside…

— Graham Taylor

I guess, at a club, you feel supported. Sometimes, with the national team, it hasn't always felt that way.

— Gareth Southgate