Class Quote by Michael Ballack

I like to have fewer players. That way, everyone is plugged into what you're doing. There is a risk attached to that sometimes but…

— Quique Setien

I want to play every single player, but I can only play 11 at a time.

— Niko Kovac

Managers now don't just use 11 players; they have to care about all the squad of 25 or more players.

— Park Ji-sung

You can have a bunch of individually good players, but it doesn't matter. You gotta learn to play like a team.

— Russ

When you're a player, you only really have to look after yourself. And then you go into management, and you've got 30 players' welfare…

— Graeme Souness

The way that I like to play the game requires all 11 players to be involved in every phase of the match.

— Jesse Marsch

Every player wants to play as many games as possible.

— Matthijs de Ligt

For a given match, I can only select 18 players and at most 14 would play.

— Ali Daei

You play with 10 players, you don't play alone.

— Kylian Mbappe

The quality of our academy system is very high, as good as anything in the world. Around the country, lots of people in youth…

— Gareth Southgate

You can have as many players as you want to on paper, but if guys don't mesh and don't communicate well and play well…

— Mark Ingram II

I can't play with 12 players.

— Niko Kovac