Seeing my teammates happy is more fun than me actually doing something.
I always feel happy for my teammates, but I’m not going to be the one at the top of the dugout yelling.
You have to communicate – you have to click – to find automatic reactions with your teammates.
I like my teammates.
My teammates tell me to shoot the ball when I’m open. I feel like I’m open most of the time, so I shoot it.
It’s just not thinking about starting all the time. You’ll think, ‘Just because I’m having good games, I need to be in the starting lineup.’ Your teammates and coaches respect you even more if you’re having good games and you’re not worrying about it.
When Diego won the World Cup in 1986, perhaps he had the luck that Messi has not had. Diego had very good teammates and things went well.
I never put a ceiling on myself, I never put a ceiling on my teammates or my team.
If a guy is shooting a shot in the corner 70 percent of the missed shots usually come off that other side and 30 percent hits off the front rim so just playing the percentages and kind of studying your teammates’ shots throughout the course of the game.
I can’t sit here and try to do it all on my own because there’s no way I’ll be able to. It’s a matter of trusting my teammates no matter what it looks like.
If I hit a game-winning shot, right, and I run back down the court and shake my teammates hands, it’s because I expected to make it. Because I’ve practiced or I feel I’ve worked harder than everybody else. So why would I then go nuts, go crazy if I expected to do that? People don’t understand that part about me.
We are a motivated team, and there is nothing that can stop us from winning the title. Even if I had lost, my teammates would have made up for it.
I love to set up my teammates. I am not here to be a star, to show off. I am here to play for the others, but if I have to try and clinch a game, then I will.
It’s just me and the water, and I’ll share the water with my teammates.
A lot of players act one way with teammates, one way with reporters, another way for fans, another for their friends. I’m just me all the time. I’m normal. Everyone else in the NFL is weird.
It’s exciting to play against old teammates, old friends.
I’ve been lucky to have great coaching, great teammates, and a desire to keep getting better. That, slowly over time, helped me grow from an average high school player to the NBA.
I’m the kind of guy that I never forget my teammates.
Teammates tell me to bring it down a notch in practice or that their hands are hurting. Randy Moss told me I was the first person to ever dislocate one of his fingers.
Time and time again, I see former teammates, and we talk about it. It feels like we are all on the same page: We enjoyed the regular season, but we were disappointed in not making the World Series.
As I and the rest of my Pittsburgh Steelers teammates prepared that week in late December 1974, we knew one thing: The road to the Super Bowl in the AFC went through Oakland. To achieve your dreams as a team, you had to slay the Oakland Raiders. They were the barometer of what it took to be a championship team.
Newman and I were friends. We were great teammates, and he needs to check his trophy case on that Daytona 500 trophy I helped him get years ago.
I expect a lot. And, I hold my teammates accountable and they’ve got to hold me accountable.
I used to be so focused on winning, I had a really hard time enjoying soccer. If I missed a shot, I would spend a lot of time thinking about how I’d disappointed my teammates. Then I learned how moments of struggle make you stronger.
Often, I allow teammates to take my penalties so they can have goals, but no one talks of that.
I got to experience a world championship with some great teammates.
I’m all about having a good time and respecting my teammates.
I’ve always been an unselfish guy, and that’s the only way I know how to play on the court and I try to play to the maximum of my ability – not only for myself but for my teammates.
I try to attack the glass, get rebounds and create possessions for my teammates because that’s what I’m here to do. But if they face guard or put two or three guys on me I’m going to keep going to the glass and keep being relentless.
I focus on myself and my teammates. I don’t really care about what other people have going on, to be honest.
I vividly recall the physical sensation and emotion of playing defense behind my teammates – pitchers dominating opposing lineups, throwing up zero after zero as the innings progressed.
I think playing multiple sports is by far the best way to go. You’re talking about different teammates, different skill sets, different mentalities.
Be tough. As a big guy, it’s what your teammates expect from you, to be strong. Set good screens offensively and box out at the other end. It’s a simple technique. I learned it when I was little.
I’m willing to run through a wall for my teammates, for organizations that I play for. So whatever is asked of me, I try to do.
When you endure an 82-game season, you have a great opportunity to build a lot of confidence and cohesiveness with your teammates and coaches.
A lot of my teammates in the NBA call me Little Patty anyway as they are about two feet taller than me.
If teams focus on me, that will allow my teammates to make plays.
The heart and soul of a Navy SEAL is somebody who’s committed to their country and committed to their teammates.
I’ve always cared about my teammates, but it’s about being vocal and letting them know I care about them… not just on the basketball court.
As a player, you model yourself after other players. Kobe takes the same approach as Michael Jordan. But I follow someone like Magic Johnson; he showed emotion, he smiled and jumped around, he was happy for his teammates. There needs to be more players like that.
I’ve always been a point guard, so being a coach on the floor, I’ve had to connect with every one of my teammates and find ways to motivate them, find ways to build them up.
At any level I’m not built with complacency. I think you see that in the way I play. The people that manage me know that, my teammates know that. I’m not built like that.
You always want to hang out with your friends and teammates – you’re with them all the time.
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I love for the crowd to feed off me, and I try to make my teammates feed off me.
I think the thing that helps you get to the next level is being able to affect the game in different ways. And that’s me getting my teammates shots instead of me just coming off pin-downs.
We want players to come in who respect their teammates, the club, the history.
I was taught you never, ever disrespect your opponent or your teammates or your organization or your manager and never, ever your uniform.
Wherever I am I just try to be there for my teammates on the floor and put forth effort and help our team win.
I trust my teammates and their ability to be there when they have to be there. I’m going to be there when I have to be there for them.
I hate letting my teammates down. I know I’m not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don’t feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win.
I’ve seen elbows that broke eye sockets. I’ve seen a German goalkeeper just level a French guy. His teammates thought he was dead lying on the ground. This was in 1982 at my first World Cup. But a bite is outside any kind of contact collision: dirty foul play. A bite is a bite.
Hey, I love seeing the smiles of my teammates when they score.
As a base runner myself, the moment I reached second base I began to fantasize about the potential contact at the plate. Every time I met a catcher in front of the plate throughout my career, the response I received from my teammates when returning to the dugout was a true hero’s welcome.
There were some coaches, some teammates, some sports psychology people who I could trust and rely on. They were very important to keep me focused on the right things – the things which would be beneficial to me instead of catastrophising things and worrying about things which were not in my control.
Philly will always have a special place in my heart, and I will cherish the great memories with the city and my teammates there.
People asking my teammates, ‘Is Arrieta a guy who’d try to cheat the system?’ Honestly, hearing that kind of stuff come from some of the best players in baseball is honestly a compliment. I view it that way.
If I have something to say then I am prepared to speak to my teammates about it.
I cherish my teammates and my coaches.
Overwhelmingly, I would say I’ve had really good support from many of my teammates and guys that I’ve played with. We want to be able to express our views. You know, we’re part of this country, too.
Some of the guys in the Eastern Conference, I had never been on their teams – like Larry Bird: even though you make the All Star team, you’re going to be in the West; he’s on the East. So you’re never going to be teammates.
