Top 125 Teammate Quotes

I love Evan Turner. I think he’s a great teammate. I think he’s a hard worker. I think he loves basketball. I don’t think you can overvalue that.

I love to play football. And I think anybody that’s ever been my teammate or I’ve been theirs understands how much I love that.

People don’t understand how it feels to be with a guy who you call your teammate and you’re with more than your family during the course of a season.

As a teammate, you want the best of everyone on your team. It’s about mentally being able to be all in. Why not create an environment that fosters that?

I hope to make an impact not only on the field, in the community, in the locker room. But on the field, catching the ball, returns, running the ball, getting the tough gritty yards, being able to make those special plays and being a great teammate, that’s what I hope to have.

I’ve never really been too fussed about the kind of teammate I have.

I will miss Messi so much. He’s a great teammate, a great guy. We’ve lived a lot of things together, a lot of matches, a lot of goals. He knows me well.

If you’re in the best team in the world, you or your teammate have to win.

I’ve never had a teammate competing with me my whole life.

What do you call a co-worker these days? Neither teammate nor confederate will do, and partner is too legalistic. The answer brought from academia to the political world by Henry Kissinger and now bandied in the boardroom is colleague. It has a nice upper-egalitarian feel, related to the good fellowship of collegial.

Once I was walking with teammate Joy Fawcett in a hotel in Haiti. We were barefoot, and the lights went out to save electricity. Joy felt something crunch beneath her feet, and she felt the need to shine her flashlight on the floor. It was, I swear, a five-foot cockroach.

The kind of leader and teammate that I was, at every stop I made, I was always honest with guys and honest with myself. I think that was the reason I grew to have the reputation I had in the league.

I think that’s the ultimate sign of a teammate and respect is that they compete against one another so hard at practice that here’s a chance to share some knowledge inside. It takes some humility to do that.

I had a teammate whose motto was, ‘If I make a million dollars, I must spend a million dollars.’ I was like, ‘If I make a million dollars, I’m hoping I can keep a million dollars.’

It’s that preparation that goes into each week. We have a term: ‘Trust your training, trust your teammate, and trust yourself.’

My main focus was to be a great teammate. That’s all I hoped to accomplish. I don’t really care about legacies.

I just get this reputation of being a bad teammate, but no one would come in and tell me why.

I want to make sure I do everything in my power to be a better teammate and player.

People talk about how many goals I score, how I play, how I move on the field. In Argentina, on the other hand, they’re always digging for dirt, and they continue to talk about me as the husband of Wanda Nara, that guy who stole the woman and ruined the life of a former teammate, when it was never actually like that.

My game is really played above time. I don’t say that like I’m saying I’m ahead of my time. I’m saying, like, if I’m on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I’ve thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that’s the right place to go to.

I want to be the best teammate I can be, the fastest learner, the hardest worker, and just go out there in any way that I can help in each game.

It’s always exciting to have a guy you played with in college as a teammate in the NFL.

Wherever I go and whoever I go play for, I’m a football player. I enjoy playing football, I enjoy the game, I enjoy being a teammate.

One of the things that are consistent amongst all great leaders is they’re a great teammate that is invested in the guys around them to raise the level of play. You do that by believing in guys and caring about them.

The things that Dirk has done for this league and for the Dallas Mavericks, it’s unbelievable. And Coach Kidd was a teammate of Dirk, so for Jason Kidd to compare me with Dirk Nowitzki, it feels nice. It’s a nice compliment.

I don’t think you can go back to any team I ever played on and find someone who will say I was a bad teammate.

I try to be a good teammate.

I just would hate to have to fight my own teammate. I would never want to.

Any teammate of mine that had a kid and a boy that was capable of playing baseball, I think I set a terrific example of ‘Don’t do this’ and ‘Don’t do that.’ And that’s one of the things that I’m most proud of.

I think every time I step on the court, I’m just preparing myself to be the best player I can be, be the best teammate I can be as well.

My best teammate was Roberto Carlos.

I have not always been painted in the best picture of being the best teammate. But if you ask my actual teammates, not maybe the media and the other people that don’t like me, if you ask my actual teammates, they will always say that I’ve been that guy.

Danieal Manning is a friend of mine, he was a teammate for five or six years, and that’s the way it is.

My wife is my teammate. She’s my best friend. I love her.

If you don’t care about the guy next to you, one, you’re a terrible teammate. Two, you’re never gonna win.

Yuzvendra Chahal, India’s leg-spinner, is another IPL teammate. He’s also a great guy and very funny.

The ball touched the paint a lot of times. When we talk about touching the paint, the ball touches the key for making a layup or making a play for a teammate. We’ve got to use our length and our speed. Defensively, getting deflections. Give up one shot and rebound.

A good teammate is someone willing to get outside of personal thoughts and emotions, a friend who tries to understand, appreciate, and encourage other members of the team.

I get asked a lot about my legacy. For me, it’s being a good teammate, having the respect of my teammates, having the respect of the coaches and players. That’s important to me.

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you’re ready to play as tough as you’re able to, you’d better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you’re not giving it all you’ve got.

I know my teammates better than opponents know them. If I can see my teammate in one moment, I know where he’ll be in the next moment. I don’t need to see him again.

Lionel Messi is an excellent teammate, he’s a fantastic guy. We lived through a lot together, a lot of games, a lot of goals – he knows me well.

If you’ve got to second-guess talking to a teammate, what you have will never work.

It is always painful when you see a teammate leaving. You create a bond, and you have been together for so long, and you are going to do your best with your guys.

I’m Chief Executive Officer at Art of the Olympians Museum in Fort Myers, Florida, which was founded by my Mexico City teammate Al Oerter and his wife Cathy in 2005. It shows that Olympians can have another life; we have got art from more than 100 Olympians.

I like to try to learn from my past and be a better person because of it. Better player, better teammate. Better everything.

Being a good teammate is when you try to sprint down a ball that everyone thinks is going out of bounds. But you go after it anyways and you get it.

It’s rule number one, really – beating your teammate.

The league is interesting because it’s evident everyone can beat everyone. And sometimes things happen you just don’t understand. This might be referee decisions or the running paths or passes of a teammate. It’s different than in Europe, but you have to take things as they are.

I was a team captain, I was the guy for the first couple years. And then all of the sudden I was just the backup. It wasn’t easy. I think it would be easy to bow my head and feel sorry for myself, but I knew as a captain I had to be a great teammate.

That’s the definition of a teammate, being together, being there for your teammate.

Being a good teammate means looking out for our neighbours, friends and the people we work with.

I think when you’ve played in a league for as long as I have, it would be foolish for a coach not to ask a player with that kind of knowledge about other players. A lot of this goes beyond the court. Are they a good teammate? Are they good in the locker room? What’s their attitude like? Do they work hard?

Be the best teammate you can be, be the best player you can be, and just be as supportive and encouraging for the people who are playing.

When I look in the mirror, I don’t see a person who’s made the kind of impact that Mia Hamm made on the game. She’s still my idol, the greatest player and the greatest teammate. She achieved so much in so many different ways. What she did for women’s soccer can’t be measured.

I think my mindset is probably the most important thing. Being able to stay positive through whatever injury I had or whatever situation I was going through and focusing on the best player and the best teammate I can be.

I will respect the limits of my experience but that won’t stop me from trying to lead by example of my work. Being a good teammate and picking them up on and off the field is a simple goal of mine.