Teammate Quotes - Page 12

• It was pretty hard to actually have to say the words with my teammates, my wife and my boys there. I realized it was going to happen before that day [I announce retirement], but to have to announce it and talk about in front of a lot of people was tougher than I expected. I'm glad that feeling has kind of gone away. That sadness hasn't lingered.

  Prince Fielder

  Retirement, Sadness, Boys

  Source: sports-ak.espn.go.com

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• I really believe the only thing you can control in those situations is what you do as a player but also how you interact with your teammates, which is critical.

  Brian Griese

  Sports, Believe, Player

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• I want to be known as the best teammate ever.

  Kevin Garnett

  Want, Best Team, Known

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• In a game, there are so many different variables that are thrown at you - the defense, where your teammates are, how fast your body's moving, and you have to be in control of all those decisions.

  Stephen Curry

  Moving, Games, Decision

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• We all wore a 21 patch that one season as a silent tribute to our deceased teammate Roberto.

  Willie Stargell

  Sports, Quiet, Silent

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• I do the work just because I enjoy it on the day, working with the guys. For me, it's like going to play a game of baseball: you've got your teammates, you get to do something that's fun, hopefully, and whatever happens with that stuff is in the cosmos someplace.

  William Petersen

  Baseball, Fun, Games

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You shouldn't just work on your jump shot. You should work on being a better person, a better teammate, and a better friend.

  Sue Wicks

  Better Person, Should, Shots

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• The Messi of the early years was a phenomenon, but he always wanted to finish off the move. Now he goes past one, two or three players and is happy to give an assist to a teammate, it makes him more dangerous than ever before.

  Michael Laudrup

  Moving, Past, Player

  "Selfless Messi Is More Dangerous Than Ever - Laudrup". Interview with Miles Chambers, www.goal.com. October 24, 2014.

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• We can become great in the eyes of others, but we'll never become successful when we compromise our character and show disloyalty toward friends or teammates. The reverse is also true: No individual or team will become great without loyalty.

  John Wooden

  Loyalty, Team, Character

  John Wooden (2010). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)”, p.29, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Testosterone is the hormone of collaboration and competition that, whenever we compete on a team, we collaborate with our teammates. And most of us in our daily life, to the extent that we have to compete with the rat race in the world out there, we're collaborating with other people at the same time. The two are hand in hand.

  Po Bronson

  Team, People, Competition

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When I played, I never needed the spotlight, nor did I want it. I simply wanted to play baseball and be respected by my teammates and the opposing players.

  Bruce Sutter

  Baseball, Player, Spotlight

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• As long as I have the support and respect of my teammates, that's all I can ask for.

  Darren Flutie

  Long, Support, Asks

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• The only problem is getting comfortable with myself. It's different for me, a different team. I have to try to do the best I can, working, trying to get comfortable in the left field and with my teammates, too.

  Alfonso Soriano

  Team, Trying, Comfort

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• I'm definitely looking to put together a full season. I know what I'm capable of doing. I want to be the kind of player my teammates can depend on.

  Khalil Greene

  Player, Together, Want

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• In my organizations I don't have employees; I have teammates. Yes, I do pay people and offer them benefits. But people don't work for me. They work with me. We are working together to fulfill the vision. Without them, I cannot succeed. Without me, they cannot succeed. We're a team. We reach our goals together. We need each other. If we didn't, then one of us is in the wrong place.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Team, Organization

  John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.7, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Actor Mike Warren [was my former teammate], who was in Hill Street Blues. There are more, but it's starting to sound like a team reunion at Red Lobster. They were a great bunch of guys and we accomplished a lot together. That's something you don't forget.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Team, Guy, Together

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• I love the success of my teammates more than my individual achievements. I've just always cared more about that since I started playing.

  LeBron James

  Achievement, Individual Achievement, Individual

  "LeBron James and Coach Dru Joyce". Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. September 30, 2009.

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• When we get to the point where a gay pro athlete is no longer forced to live in fear that he'll be shunned by teammates or outed by tabloids, when we get to the point where he plays while his significant other waits in the family room, when we get to the point where he's not compelled to hide his true self and is able to live an authentic life, then coming out won't be such a big deal. But we're not there yet.

  Jason Collins

  Athlete, Gay, Self

  "Parting shot: Jason Collins announces NBA retirement in his own words" by Jason Collins, www.si.com. November 19, 2014.

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• I've kept in touch with many of my former teammates: Bob Marcucci was our team manager and we bonded over our passion for baseball.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Baseball, Team, Passion

  Source: www.sbnation.com

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• Every time I step out on that field, I'm 100 percent. My teammates know that. They know what I'm out there dealing with. I know what I'm out there dealing with. But when it comes to my mindset, I'm 100 percent.

  Robert Griffin III

  Fields, Steps, Mindset

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• 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.

  Joe Greene

  Dream, Team, Oakland

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• The people in the villages had turned in on themselves. You can understand it. When you have a bad day on the field, what do you do? Talk to your teammates.

  Ian Botham

  Bad Day, People, Village

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• I was fortunate to play for Pete Rose and have teammates like Ken Griffey Sr., Tony Perez and Dave Concepcion. I grew up in the game with a mature attitude. I've always known it was better to be seen and not heard.

  Eric Davis

  Attitude, Games, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There's a term, agape, you hear used a lot with charismatic religious groups, that it's this more pure love of caring, of sharing of concern and understanding. I think players and teams have to come to that at some point in the season to become successful. Maybe not "personal friends," but they become teammates at the highest level of that term.

  Phil Jackson

  Religious, Team, Successful

  Source: onlyagame.wbur.org

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• You make other team think you going one way and you got to sell the move going that way and you've got to really make them think that you're going that way and they're going the other way. When it ends up ultimately being a perfect crossover is when you shake them so bad that they can't even get back into the play to play defense. You're already gone. That's what I think the perfect one is to where a teammate of his has to stop you from scoring.

  Allen Iverson

  Team, Moving, Thinking

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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