It’s a great honor to be named to the Eastern Conference All-Star team as a starter. It’s great to earn respect from your teammates and coaches, but to also get that same respect from other players around the league and then the fans – that is special.
Teammates sacrifice for each other.
I know Penny Toler and coach Ross have worked hard to put together a strong team this year, and I am ready to start the season with my teammates.
If someone says something to me, I am not going to back down. Whether it’s defending myself or standing up for one of my teammates, that is the way I play the game.
I just want what’s best for my teammates at the end of the day and that’s giving them the best version of me.
I am no genius; I just worked hard like my other teammates, and I believe all my teammates can win the title as they work hard, too.
It’s not about an individual. If I have a tip or a reminder for one of my teammates, I’ll help him out by doing that.
I know my role on this team, and I’m expected to prepare and to perform every week and play well. I relish that opportunity – to be somebody the guys can count on week in and week out, to play really well. That’s what really motivates me: to make my coaches proud, my teammates proud, and the fans proud.
Philly, I feel like, is where I became a man and matured my game and became better. I went through the good and the bad with my teammates and it taught me a lot. With the fans and all, it was a great experience.
My teammates are part of my family as well.
With me, and people know this, since I’ve gotten to the league the first day I’ve always been about trying to help my team win, trying to play for my teammates. That’s just the way that I am.
When I come off the ball screen, I’m always trying to draw another defender, so where I can get my teammates open, and if not, I can score the basketball.
When I’m out there on the mound, I’m fighting for my teammates, fighting for the ability to stay in the game for a long time. It’s war. I see the hitter – I think about what I want to do, but it’s a very quick process. Then I attack. It’s almost primal.
Sometimes, I might not be able to show all of the work that I’ve put in because I’ve got a certain role. I’ve had openings and my teammates have done a great job of finding me and it’s on me to convert them.
I couldn’t ask for better teammates, and the Pirate fans are the greatest in baseball.
Paul Goldschmidt, who gave me the confidence to lead as one of the game’s greatest players, acknowledged that what I had to say was valuable to my teammates and crucial to winning.
I just prepare myself to perform well, to support my teammates to play well, to try to get to the final, to the World Series.
A lot of Utah State when I was there, there was a lot of California guys. So, you get a lot of Cali music, you got a lot of dance music, I think the Jerk was popular back then. It was a lot of the music that you can dance to with your teammates. A lot of hip-hop, rap, R&B, it was really fun. It was live in there.
No other teammates can help you when you’re on the ice by yourself against the clock. So I decided that if I’m going to race on my own, I’m going to train on my own.
Hopefully, my teammates will say that I was important and that I gave it everything and I didn’t leave anything to chance my whole career. To be mentioned as Hall-worthy is a great thing.
When you’re at home for Duke-Carolina, you have a crowd of close to 10,000 around you, loving you. That’s awesome. But it’s also a lot of fun in Chapel Hill, where it’s you, your teammates and your coaches, and no one else. I enjoyed the games at Chapel Hill a little more because of that.
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.
People ask me, ‘What were you thinking during that game-winning penalty kick in the 2011 World Cup?’ I was actually thinking absolutely nothing. I just walked up there and was so inspired by my teammates who rocked all their PKs; they just killed it. I figured I might as well do the same, or they might have my neck.
A child comes to see his father play, have fun, make people happy, and what does he see? He sees people booing his father for being black. They make monkey noises. They throw bananas at his teammates and all that.
As committed to my Lakers teammates and the organization as I am, I ultimately play basketball for my family.
Something that my teammates always thought was going to be a punishment for me – sitting next to Coach Russell on the team bus – actually turned out to be the best moment of my life.
You play this game, that’s what you play this game for. You play the game to go to the Super Bowl and that’s the only reason why we play to win and make it to the Super Bowl. So anything short of that would not be acceptable and I think my teammates know that as well.
The really great players, I think embrace playing unselfishly and embrace playing in a system that ultimately kind of lifts up their teammates or their role players and guys who are around them.
I hate divers, like Cristiano Ronaldo, who might be the greatest athlete in the sport, but he’s a big baby. If things are going well he’s great, but when things are going badly it’s the ref’s fault, it’s his teammates’ fault.
Along with my teammates, we have a lot more great things to achieve, and we will continue to help PSG grow as a big club internationally. The support of all those that love this club will help us go beyond our own limits and defend our colours with passion and determination.
I want to be successful in playing the game. I’m going to do my best to help myself and my teammates play in the best possible way and reach successful results.
That’s ultimately the thing that sticks out to you most, that’s most important to me, is that I have the respect of my teammates.
My whole time at Dunbar, I’ve had great players around me. My teammates, my coaches.
I’ve never had hard feelings with any of my teammates who decided to leave or felt like it was best to leave.
When I did get captured, the only thing I held onto was the fact that my teammates were going to come get me. Period.
The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you’re going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.
You don’t criticize or critique your teammates if they’re having a hard time. You try to encourage them just like you hope that they’ll encourage you.
I get nervous watching teammates. I get nervous for them. Late in the game, pressure situation, I’m nervous for them.
I love passing. I really do. And I try to get my teammates easy stuff.
The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal.
All my teammates throughout my entire career in football had my back. I loved them; they loved me.
Sometimes you play better with some teammates than others.
I’ve shared doTERRA products with my coaches, chef, and especially teammates.
When I think about 2017, I feel like it was just another year. It was a whirlwind, but I wouldn’t have wanted it to play out any other way. I’m glad I was in New York. There’s nowhere else I would rather play, and there’s no other group of teammates that I would rather be around.
We have a unique format that allows for coaching of players during the matches. We have a team aspect so your teammates are there on the bench cheering you on.
I understand my teammates. I know which teammates you can get on during the game, and which respond better to constructive criticism.
I like to think my teammates had a good time when I was around.
There are only so many times I can say, ‘I owe it to my offensive linemen,’ or, ‘The credit should go to my teammates,’ before it becomes run down.
I bring a lot to a team. I bring immediate impact. As far as my skillset, I can attack defenders in multiple ways and get my teammates involved.
In basketball and football I would cry. I didn’t understood why all my teammates weren’t good. Then I started boxing and I knew it was different. I said, this is all me.
I’ve seen teammates who wanted to choke each other.
In my mind, every time I touch the ball, I believe I have the ability to score with the help of my teammates.
I can score in bunches, but it’s about being able to make my teammates better and have the defense worry about something else other than me going out there aggressive and forcing it sometimes.
Every offseason when I’m back in Ohio, I get together with some of my former teammates and reminisce about our run in 2007.
If you stay around in the NBA long enough, you’re going to bounce around, your teammates are going to bounce around, but those friendships, they remain constant.
I enjoy creating relationships with my teammates, my friends, and I genuinely care about people.
I try to take whatever the defense gives me, have a sense of urgency, know who’s guarding me and pick my spots, get my teammates involved and also attack the rim.
