You just have your teammates and yourself out there to pick you up, so just kind of shows you how strong you really can be.
I told our players at Butler, ‘I hate to break it to you, but you aren’t playing beyond here. That’s reality. So why are you so concerned with yourself?’ It’s a hard lesson, but I told them, ‘How you handle your role on this team will be remembered by your coaches and your teammates. It will define you.’
I really enjoyed being with my teammates and representing Mexico, but I didn’t go where I wanted to go.
When you are a striker like me, you always play for the teammates.
When they say I’m a bad teammate and that I got a coach fired, that irritates the hell out of me. The biggest thing for me is to always have respect for my teammates. And then the whole Westphal thing – the man got himself fired. He was losing before I got here.
My teammates and I are best known for our penalty kick victory against China to win the 1999 Women’s World Cup. But a lot of people don’t realize that when we were first playing soccer on the Women’s National Team, the Women’s World Cup didn’t exist. In fact, Women’s Soccer wasn’t even in the Olympics.
I’ve always been pretty vocal to my teammates. I’m really positive and optimistic. Positive enforcement – I feel like throwing that energy into the air is big.
I’m someone who always comes on the court no matter what’s going on in my life. It’s all about basketball and my teammates and my team. I don’t let any distractions in, and I bring my best every night, regardless of what’s going on or what people are talking about.
When all your teammates make shots, it’s easy to get assists. Nobody feels the pressure to score. It makes the game so much easier.
When I’m talking to my teammates, being the vocal leader, going up and down, pushing everyone, they tend to follow.
Me being young, I’m going to definitely mess up a lot more than I’m going to make the right play, but I want my teammates to be able to trust me and look at me as a veteran guard trying to run the team.
It took for me to get to the Lakers and for my teammates to help me get through that mental block that I had. Anytime I was open, anytime it even looked like I might be open, they always told me, ‘Shoot the ball. We don’t care if it goes in or if you don’t make it. Just shoot it.’
I’m working hard to get better for my teammates and fans.
I want to succeed, but I want to make an impact in the people’s lives that I’m around. So that means teammates, fans, coaches, staff, everybody.
I think I’ve worked hard for everything that’s happened but I know I’ve had a lot of support from family, friends, and even at Florida State. My coaches and teammates have supported me in everything I’ve wanted to accomplish.
I always thought being a gamer and someone who had a sense of responsibility to the game and to my teammates was the honorable thing.
All my teammates, everybody, they trust me and empower me. I just wanna thank them for allowing me to lead them. And then my family, my wife, my son, everybody, like everybody, has played a part in helping me continue to become the best version of me on and off the court.
The support I’ve gotten from my teammates has been great.
I could probably stand up and have a press conference and thank 100 guys within that Denver organization, along with all those teammates I played with.
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.
When I see one of my teammates make a good play, to keep that energy going, I feel like that’s what I do on the defensive end, and then make a good offensive play.
The best player’s responsibility is to unite and inspire your teammates to play up to their full maximum ability, and that never occurs if you try to separate yourself as part of the problem.
I had to earn the respect from everybody, from referees to opponents, but my teammates, they saw some European guy coming here and I had to prove myself. Luckily, I proved myself, but with big help from the entire Lakers organization.
That’s the key – there is no secret. Just trust your teammates and play together.
I just want to try to find my way to help teammates, and I am struggling from long range.
To win, you have to involve all your teammates because if not, it is too difficult. One guy, it is impossible to win something big.
Me and JC, Jordan Clarkson, get along really well anyway, but being with him like every day, which I probably never thought I would really do, he’s probably one of the greatest humans I’ve ever been around. JC will be forever be one of my favorite teammates ever.
I think Pique, apart from the odd personal remark, has never had a bad opinion about any of my teammates at Real Madrid, but obviously, when he attacks Real Madrid, our club, and our institution, it kind of tarnishes all of the rest of what he says.
I apologies to my fans, teammates and the Grizzlies organization for regrettably not doing the necessary research about what supplements I can put in my body.
I find joy in watching my teammates celebrate and do what they do. Whenever I throw them the ball, I love watching my teammates celebrate.
That’s what I love about tennis: As an individual sport, you can’t hide behind teammates.
I came in the league as not a shooter, not a scorer. My game was to play defense and make my teammates better. The most important stat to me was that left column – winning. Nothing else matters.
I love the atmosphere football brings; I love being around my teammates; I love the struggle in football. I love the fact that it is a part of my life. I don’t look at it as any more important or less important as any other part of my life.
I always think how I should play to make the most out of my teammates’ abilities and their established styles.
Obviously, different people identify me as the face of women’s hockey and whatnot, but like my teammates, I’m just there to perform and compete.
To be teammates in Formula One actually means you are first rivals, not really mates.
I am proud of my family. I am proud of my Duke championships and all my Duke teammates. And, I am proud I never lost a game against the Fab Five.
I didn’t want to leave school early, honestly. I had just established relationships with my teammates and I knew people there and I didn’t want to give that up and start something new.
My own little rule was two for one. If one of my teammates got knocked down, then I knocked down two on the other team.
Everton was a great club for me with great teammates.
When I do retire, I will miss the trips with the team, the jokes with my teammates, the habits: having breakfast with them, playing with them, all the little things.
I’ve got to bring it every night and earn the right and trust from my coach and teammates to be able to make an impact on the game.
Throughout my career, I was blessed with great teams and great teammates.
I want to help my teammates, even if I’m a striker, because it’s important to win back possession. But scoring is something incomparable.
I’ve worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.
Any praise goes to my coaches and my teammates. I have the easy part of waking up and going to the gym. They’re the ones that have to break my bad habits and teach me new things. They’re literally my everything. In my personal life, it’s my wife, and in my professional life, it’s my coaches and my teammates.
Atletico was a real group of friends. We went out together, and my teammates taught me a language I did not know at all when I arrived. When I left, I cried.
I’m not going to take too much credit for what’s happened in my life. When we’re playing, the things I do are because of my teammates. So I’m not going to take too much credit.
I trust my teammates and everybody to step up and carry the load.
Normally you have more adrenaline and tension when you see 80,000 fans, screaming after every corner or chance. You have to push yourself and your teammates. Normally when there are fans you are focused just because of that. You feel mistakes more. Also you feel more if you score a goal.
I think my ability coming into the NBA is going to make it that much easier for me with the space and the different type of players here. I think just by the spacing alone is going to make my game that much easier and that much better for my teammates.
My teammates, my friends, the ones that I shared great times with, faced prejudices that I never did and when they shared their experiences… I did not hear them.
I make fun of one of my teammates because she’s like, I’m going to retire.’ And that was after the Beijing Olympics. I don’t know. I don’t want to put all of my eggs in that basket because who knows what the future holds.
Sometimes when you date people, you end up breaking up, and if teammates are mature enough to deal with that, then it’s okay. I never want to bring any undue drama to the team.
Without my success in basketball, I’m nothing. My family, my daughter, my teammates, my foundation, my acting career – they all depend on that success.
I used to care a lot about what other people thought – like teammates.
