Top 151 Mates Quotes

What we expect from our drivers, as team mates, is that they show respect for each other and allow one another enough room on the race track.

I always break it down I am three different people. I’m Troy Deeney the footballer, I’m daddy who the kids get to see and I’m Troy which a few of my mates get to see.

It’s always fun catching up with the other players because so many of them were really good mates when I was playing on the main tour. The thing you miss when you give up is that camaraderie that you experienced because, for 35 weeks of the year, it really is a travelling circus.

I talk to my mates about our kids, being too tired and being worn out.

When I talk to my mates, they all have their opinion and though I’m a professional who’s played the game and lived it they still don’t agree with me. Every fan thinks they knows best, every fan is passionate about their club and their team and their points are valid because they watch them all the time.

If you mess around with your mates, you get into rough and tumble then you remember you’re in your mid-40s and you can’t land the way you used to, so it’s great fun.

I get frustrated with companies that present themselves as your mates. They use emojis in the messages they send you, and they’re very casual with their back-and-forth. That doesn’t work if they’ve rinsed you of all your money.

To be teammates in Formula One actually means you are first rivals, not really mates.

When I was younger I started dancing. I picked it up off a couple of mates who were body-popping.

It is always difficult to leave your mates and your club in the middle of the season for another competition.

At 15, I was playing with the C team at Reims and I wanted to leave. It’s a difficult age for a kid – I wanted to go out with my mates, party… girls… that happens to everyone. Luckily, my mum told me: ‘You don’t know what you want, it’s football – it’s your dream and it could be a great job.’ She was right.

I’m a keen musician. Me and my mates have a great times jamming and recording stuff. We have a great band behind us and have turned my nursery-rhyme songs into quite credible pieces of music.

I came back from the Olympic Games, and straightaway, I’m this role model. So that means I can’t mess around with my mates like I used to because, if I do, people are going to use it to knock me down.

It really does mean so much when your cast mates, who you respect so much, tell you that you made them laugh.

When I was a teenager, you were either a punk, a skinhead or a mod, or you weren’t on the scene. Me and my mates were skinheads.

In 2008, I moved to Lyon, one of France’s top clubs. I had some very strong team mates, and I proved to be at their level. I began training very hard and always respecting my coach’s advice.

I’ve got mates who don’t enjoy their work, but I would be sitting here talking about sport anyway.

BBC One’s ‘Noughts and Crosses’ feels like catching up with your oldest mates from home.

People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they’re their mates.

Your mates are the people who have been around 10 years or more.

Being a comedian, all the stress is there in the moment of doing it. The rest of it is mint: you hang out with your mates, go to the arcades, go to the cinema in the daytime, it’s like being a teenager all the time.

Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.

My mates and my family know who I am and that’s all I really care about. Making my parents proud and happy.

Ive always done accents and stupid voices. But I went to school in Hampstead, where most of my mates were Jewish, and Jewish North London humour is so clever that I never thought I was funny.

We were great mates. We didn’t really go out together because we never really had the time to go out. But we were with each other all the time anyway because we were working all the time. We could sit down and talk for hours, and we still can. We just understood each other.

Me and my dad are mates now, it is quality, I love it. I feel like we are now on an even keel.

There will be a Jussie Smollett album. I signed to Columbia. So, darling, I’m label mates with Beyonce and Adele and Barbra Streisand.

There is an apparatus set up to protect politicians, but those within that apparatus will have their own political views. I’ve got mates who are police officers and mates who are in the military, and they often have a very different view to the policy they’re asked to carry out.

I remember actually going to see the first ‘Avengers’ with one of my best mates from home. I’d never have dreamed that I’d be in one of these movies, let alone playing Spider-Man.

My girl mates are my minders. They stop people kissing me in clubs.

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.

Over the summer, you do have to take that time to relax and go on holiday with your mates and get away from football.

When I go out with my mates I’m never the centre of attention. Most of them, and they’re probably right, keep telling me they’re funnier than I am and I’m nicking their life.

That’s how cricket should be broadcast. Ball-by-ball calling is important but you’ve got to be lighthearted like you’re down the pub with your mates.

I treat people throughout the year, my mates with children, every time I see them I give them 40 quid, or I go to Amazon and get them a gift- no one goes without.

I’ve got a lot of girl mates. Especially when you come to Ibiza and you’re an Ibiza DJ, everyone comes out and they want to see you.

You know, you hear people talk about soul mates? That one person that you see, and that’s it for you? Well, TOMS is the business equivalent of a soul mate for me.

I really enjoy the company of my kids… I’m not one of those people who goes ‘Yeah, my kids are my mates’, that’s a dreadful kind of mother, but I’m fortunate that there are times that they do want me around, and I feel lucky that they let me into their world.

Depeche Mode have never got over their teenage awkwardness with each other. We’re still like that. Mates but not mates. That awkwardness is there, only now we have families and kids.

When have you ever sat down with your mates and said, ‘Look, tell me about your dad?’

I’d be getting texts from my mates saying they’d just got into a club in Liverpool with a fake ID, and what was I doing? I’d have just finished a 20-hour day and be sitting in a hotel room, starving.

I’m very proud to be the first winner of the Indian Grand Prix, but then on the other hand we recently lost two of our mates. I didn’t know Dan Wheldon, but he was big in motorsport, and then this year I got to know Marco Simoncelli, so our thoughts are with them at the moment.

I am not into fashion. I just like being able to buy my mates dinner.

My life at home is super simple. My local bar with my mates, cooking for my mother, making tables, planting vegetables: It’s the classic idea of the artistic existence.

I have been ‘absorbing’ people – their voices, their mannerisms – all my life, to the point where I am a sort of Frankenstein of different people. My own speaking voice is, in fact, a mixture of how my two best mates speak, because they are cool, and I am not.

When I see my old mates they will say, ‘You’re doing well, good on you!’ It kind of blows their minds – it blows my mind too!

My mates are absolute nutters. They’re all Essex boys in the true sense and they definitely keep my feet on the ground.

I watch films. I play the guitar: me and some mates – I wouldn’t dignify it with the term band – get together and play.

A guy playing pool in a pub once said to me that they should put me on the telly. It went in one ear and out the other. But then I started thinking about it. I wondered how it all worked, did you have to be best mates with someone at the BBC who you went to uni with in Oxford?

I started playing football with my mates and my brothers, in the playground or the park or the front garden. It was just about enjoying it, having a good time playing. I wanted to play all the time.

I never talk about me mates behind their backs, you know. I might have a laugh, but whatever I say about them I’ll certainly say it to their faces.

When I go back to see some mates and go back to watch my old teams, you just notice how far you’ve come, and that’s when you really cherish it that bit more.

I had that whole banter with the police. My mates used to make up raps about Dad being a policeman, it’s hilarious.

I speak to my mum and dad about the club, and my uncle and all my mates are big Leeds fans as well. They’re on the up, if you like. It’s a better situation than it was when they were in League One not so long ago.

People can be great competitors on Sunday and mates on Monday.

I often run into wrestlers at comic conventions or wrestling events, and it could be Tito Santana or Demolition, and I’m just flooded with memories. It’s always nice to see one of your old mates, especially the ones who I knew from further back.

It’s so vacuous, this job. You’re constantly looking at pictures of yourself, talking about yourself. Then I come back home, and all my mates want to talk about is me because I’ve been hanging out with Elton John and stuff.

I think my ideal Christmas would be to hang out with my mates.

Luis Suarez’s always been a great role model for me. His style of play is sometimes like he’s playing with his mates in the street.

Having captained India for long, it is habitual to discuss with my mates and assess the bowling changes, the bowling changes, the field setting that the opposing captain would do.

When you are one of six, your brothers and sisters become your best mates.

There’s a lot of animals in the open ocean – most of them that make light. And we have a pretty good idea, for most of them, why. They use it for finding food, for attracting mates, for defending against predators. But when you get down to the bottom of the ocean, that’s where things get really strange.

I start getting bored and misbehaving if I don’t work hard. It’s fine when you’re younger – you go out a lot and muck around with your mates and drink and stuff – but I’m a bit over that now.

I came from playing in a team with my mates to having the chance to play for Real Madrid.

I’m still Sean that me mates went to school with, not Sean the film star. And that’s the way I prefer to be.

It still feels like I am just playing with my mates a lot of the time. A lot of us in the England team have grown up playing cricket together and formed very close friendships, which makes the dressing room a very enjoyable place to be.

I’ve run out of mates that haven’t had a baby now. It does make me think of my parents having a family so young and the fact that I’ve been able to avoid it for so long. It does make me a feel a little bit selfish.

I’ve got such close ties to both… Glasgow with all my family, then Manchester with all my mates that I grew up with. So my heart is definitely in both.

I think I was a pretty ordinary teenager, boring, just played video games with my mates and went to the pub, stuff like that. Just very normal.

Mates are supposed to look after each other, right?

People can never work out where they know me from. They just come up and chat with me like mates.

Marriage civilizes males by making them responsible for their children and by imposing on boys the need to develop the bourgeois habits of self-discipline and work that make them attractive mates.

When I’m sat in the pub with my mates, they’ve got their stories: Richard and Tracy have split up, they went to Arsenal and this fight broke out… My anecdotes are like, ‘I was in this bar, and Michelle Pfeiffer rang, and I had wax in my ear, so I couldn’t hear what she was saying…’

I would love to do skiing and go with my mates and have a chalet, have a drink, have a good time, and just switch off. Or maybe a marathon or something crazy like that.

Truly, I connected with all of my cast mates, which is rare but I think that’s what made ‘Trinkets’ so special.

Sometimes supporting is difficult because a lot of people go to a gig to see the main act and to have a beer and a chat with their mates, so a lot of the time, even if you were John Lennon, would not listen to you.

By the time I was 29 I’d spent eight years with someone else’s group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.

I like to go camping with my kids. I’ve got an amazing group of friends. Just like any 30-year-old woman I like to go out dancing, eating food, drinking with my mates, like any normal person.

I was an OK boxer, I wasn’t great, I was OK, but I loved the discipline of getting together every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, usually Saturday afternoons too, with a whole bunch of mates and training, very, very hard for about two-and-half hours.

I was always pretty good at school, but a lot of it was memorising, maybe cheating off your mates, stuff that gets you through.

I have a distinct memory, dating back to 1989 or so, of sitting around with my college dorm mates talking about a new term that was popping up everywhere: ‘political correctness.’

I’d been writing jokes since I was 16, not very good ones though, but I was always trying to make my mates laugh.

Chris Martin’s a good friend of mine. I’m actually Apple’s godfather. He’s an old friend and we’ve been mates for quite a few years now.

Growing up, my mates and I would have rather been Sid Vicious or members of the Royal Family.

Me and my mates are very, very close. We all talk about our problems – especially as we’ve got older. But I don’t think a lot of people have that.

Any actor wants their movies and their work to be seen. You don’t make a movie or get into this profession for your work not to be seen and just to show them to your mates at home.

I understand the scrutiny; it’s part of the job. And I don’t want to be famous and can’t be mates with the players.

I was great mates with Muttiah Muralitharan, dating back to the days when we both played together at Lancashire.

I knew I was famous the day I played football with mates in L.A. I scored a goal and Rod Stewart jumped on top of me. I thought: ‘I had a poster of you on my wall when I was 12.’

I’m kind of selective of the people that I take photos of. Like, I don’t take pictures of just my friends, but I do like taking pictures of just some of my close mates, especially out in L.A.

I don’t like awards ceremonies. I’d sooner go to the pub with mates I’ve known for years.

I was never ever attracted to any of my rugby mates; I was really good at switching off my emotions and I wouldn’t have even considered crossing that line.

I remember when I worked at the solicitor’s – you’d go in, talk to your mates for a bit and then get down to work. With us the talking to your mates part never stops.

I’ve always known I could play football. I went to Arsenal and West Ham as a kid, but I took a year out because I wanted to play with my mates and get that competitiveness back. I got that fighting spirit and I never want to lose that.

Most gamblers do it for ego. It’s not about winning or losing, it’s about challenging your ego and showing your mates you’re fearless and will bet on anything.

I had 10 wonderful years in Spandau Ballet. It was an incredible way to grow up, to hang out with your best mates, discovering the world, discovering who you are.

I work with my brother and best mates, but I wouldn’t give any old plonker a job. With success, I’ve been able to spend more time with family and be financially supportive in a way I never thought I could.

I wasn’t confident at all as a boy and I’m still not now. I’m one of the shyest people you’ll meet. My success at football was down to playing with my brother and his mates in the street.

I think that’s the way we play our best cricket, when we’re aggressive, we’re in the fight together, we’re hunting as a pack as one and we’re working for each other and backing our mates up on the field. That’s part of being an Australian, in my opinion.

I live in a flat with my three best mates from university, none of whom are actors. It keeps you grounded.

I always say that I was born in the wrong era. I should’ve been born in the ’70s or ’80s when love meant so much more than it does today. In this busy world, we forget to find each other, fall in love, and go all the way for our soul mates.

Everyone knows the feeling where you’re in the pub and you make your mates laugh. It’s awesome, you feel like you rock. That’s what comedians want with a bit of extra ego.

With every side I’ve played for, I’ve always tried to fit in and joke with my team mates while enjoying good times with them on and off the pitch. And that’s what’s happened with Les Bleus.

I watched football, but I was a kid who really preferred being out on the street with my mates playing hide and seek!

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.

My mates send me pictures every single night on the Whatsapp group taking the mick out of me. It’s banter, it is what it is. It doesn’t bother me.

I am not entirely against horse racing. I even had a share in a horse syndicate with a few mates.

All my mates are massive Leeds fans because I live in Wakefield, but my best friend in the entire world is the Middlesbrough chairman.

I believe in soul mates, in eternal love. Not eternal marriage.

In humans, smell is often viewed as an aesthetic sense, as a sense capable of eliciting enduring thoughts and memories. Smell, however, is the primal sense. It is the sense that affords most organisms the ability to detect food, predators, and mates.

If you’re at an award ceremony, you’re against your mates.

It’s weird when auditioning for roles, because a lot of my mates go out for the same roles. You don’t want to know that you’re beating someone to the role.

When your mates break up with their boyfriends, it’s hard to see, but not all relationships last forever. Let’s be realistic.

I honestly do feel like the luckiest man alive. I have a beautiful daughter, an amazing wife and not everyone has that. My close mates always laugh at me because I say I’m blessed, but I don’t know what I did to deserve it.

A lot of my mates are actors and it’s lovely to be able to work with friends.

Anyone who’s kicked a ball with their mates and played for their local club knows the buzz of being part of a team, playing without fear or pressure.

I met David Beckham – now he was a good one to tell my mates about. I was at the launch of his new fragrance. I introduced myself but he said he knew who I was and knew my songs.

If both John McCain and Obama were given a sip of truth serum, both would admit they made serious mistakes in choosing running mates in 2008.

We are still so close, David and I. We were at a party the other day at my mum’s house and I was sitting on his lap. We’re very affectionate. And I looked at him and thought after being married for 11 years! We were the only couple who were even near each other at that party. We’re soul mates.

My mates who are younger than me are all slagging me for it – saying I am so much older and my crow’s feet are showing.

I would go to school and try to talk to my mates about music and playing instruments and stuff, and they would turn around and go, ‘What’re you talking about? Shut up.’ And I realised that I was the weird one.

When I was 16, I played Tallulah in ‘Bugsy Malone’ at the Queen’s Theatre. Me and five others shared a flat together in Blackheath. It was brilliant being 16 and living in London with my mates.

Ideally, people find mates with whom they can express both their masculine and feminine sides.

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 am my own audience. I always picture me and my mates and think, ‘What would we enjoy listening to?’

Since I was a teenager, I wanted to be in a band with my mates: my pure image of a band.

I just love riding my bike – no more so than at home in Cardiff and in South Wales on the roads where I started out, riding with my mates who I grew up with.

Obviously when you grow up in the area you love playing on the street, and to go from playing on the street with my mates to playing at Upton Park is a bit surreal, and 15 years on to still be in the heart of the West Ham midfield is quite good going!

I was a Vietnamese kid with a mullet hair cut. I had all Westie mates, and, geez, a Vietnamese guy with a mullet doesn’t work; no wonder I couldn’t get a girlfriend for so many years.

I have the same mates I always had, I go to the same pub. I’ve got the same wife and kids and the same house. Nothing’s changed.

I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates.

My best mates are my mates from school, and we have always stayed close.

I’m quite boring away from football, chilling with my mates and having down time with my family.

After all, at end of the day, when you’re breathing your last, it’s not your producer, director, or cast mates by your bedside; it’s your children. Keep that in mind.

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.

School, for me, was not a place where you went to be educated, but a place where you got away from your parents for a couple of hours while they got some respite from you, and where you were able to see your mates.

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.

Different strikers are happy when they score but you have to think about the team – the assist and movements which can give space for your team mates. You can never quit. It’s teamwork.

You know, it’s very easy to have a few beers with people in the music industry and suddenly be friends for life – ‘Let’s work together!’ All of a sudden, you’re trying to form a super group with a few people you’ve met in a club. I’m not into that, myself. Those aren’t your mates.

People will always see things that they want to see but, ultimately, ‘Celebrity Juice’ is about three mates having an absolute laugh.

I was training most nights and was missing out. I was coming back from school and wanting to go out with my mates, but I had to go training.

After school I went to work at a builders’ merchant in Stoke. After we finished on a Friday, it was down to the Duke of York for a drink with my mates and a game of darts. Unfortunately for them I had a natural talent and nobody could beat me.

I was no different to any other kid of my generation. I played with my mates in the park every day, every spare minute I could.

There’s nothing like working with your mates – it’s the way it should be, as far as I’m concerned.

I don’t get that much time to play, so when I’m with my mates, I usually only play ‘CoD.’

My mates will tell me they saw me in the newspaper linked to this club and that club, but to be honest it goes in one ear and out the other.

Football-wise, I help with my 12-year-old and his team, and I play football on a Friday with my mates and that’s about it. I always look out for results at Rovers and Southampton mainly, and I go and watch Liverpool when I can.

On stage, I have my three band mates and my guitar in front of me, and mic stand and that’s like your shield – it’s genuinely amazing what having an instrument does for you, it’s like your safety blanket, taking that away is really weird.

I’ve grown up with a really strong group of women around – my mum, sister and auntie, and I’ve had the same five girl mates since school.

The one I remember is going into London, as it was for us in Essex, on New Year’s Eve in 1981. There were four of us and we’d had a few lagers on the way. One of my mates threw up in the Tube and then stood up and fell over in it. We thought it was the funniest thing we’d ever seen.

Acting can be a difficult business. When I was younger, if my mates were doing better than me, I might be a little bit envious, but as I have got older, I love to see actors cracking on and succeeding. The same goes for writers.