Quotes About Teammates

#1. No matter what you do in the offseason, you can't simulate putting spikes on and standing in the grass and being around your teammates. When you're around your teammates, you step it up a notch. It's just kind of instinctive you do that.

Jon Lester

#2. Stoudemire is like Alonzo Mourning and my old teammates Willis Reed and Dave DeBusschere. He's aggressive and make things happen. He's always hustling and muscling, hounding and pounding guys into submission.

Walt Frazier

#3. Throughout my career, I was blessed with great teams and great teammates.

Roger Craig

#4. He was simply undeveloped compared to teammates who had grown up in the American West, linking 60 mph carved turns at Sun Valley or Crystal Mountain.

Nathaniel Vinton

#5. My teammates know I'm down to earth. I'll joke with them. But when it comes to basketball, I try to be serious about it.

Chamique Holdsclaw

#6. I'd not only be cheating myself, but I'd be cheating my teammates if I continued to make the money that I was making and wasn't producing or putting out to the level of payment that I was receiving. That's just me.

Marshall Faulk

#7. I'm reverent toward my sources. History is a team sport, and references are how you support your teammates.

Rick Perlstein

#8. I've turned down a lot of trades where I might have gotten a better player, but I wasn't totally sure of the chemistry of that new player coming in. Even though he might possess golden ability, his personality and the way he gets along with teammates might be things you just don't want to cope with.

Red Auerbach

#9. Spring training is for getting to know your teammates and forming a chemistry. I dont like it.

Torii Hunter

#10. You can't be happy, taking away something I've worked on all my life to do and help my teammates and help my defense, ... It's just part of me, playing the puck. So, definitely, you can't be happy.

Martin Brodeur

#11. The author relates that Mickey Mantle did not expect to play one day and showed up extremely hung over. He was nevertheless called on to pitch and smashed a towering home run to an enthusiastic ovation. He related to his teammates, Those people don't know how tough that was.

Jim Bouton

#12. Once practice starts, we work hard, and that's the best conditioning there is. Everything counts. Every little thing counts. Run hard, play hard, go after the ball hard, guard hard. If you play soft (what I call signing a 'non-aggression pact' with your teammates), you won't ever get into shape.

Pete Carril

#13. I don't expect people to feel sorry for me. My teammates get more upset about the criticism and booing than I do.

Alex Rodriguez

#14. 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.

LeBron James

#15. James also revealed he and his teammates smoked marijuana one night after getting access to a hotel room in Akron.

LeBron James

#16. I've made a lot of friends over the years through racing, but we weren't necessarily teammates.

Juan Pablo Montoya

#17. To be successful, you have to expose yourself to different situations-different styles of play, different teammates, different coaching.

Sue Bird

#18. If you waste your time and energy on things that don't matter in the outcome of the game, then when you get to the game you're not going to give your teammates the best that you have to offer.

Tom Brady

#19. A couple of my teammates have the rare Ford F650 Super Truck, and they're kitted out with everything - even flat-screen TVs for movies and video-game systems in the back.

Ndamukong Suh

#20. People always think women meet us in the hotel lobby, but it's the opposite. The majority of the time, you go out to eat with your teammates, then rest for the next day's game. It's not a vacation - most guys view the road as a business trip.

Kevin Durant

#21. Even with my non-believing teammates, there is a great amount of unity and I truly believe that's God working. It's really cool in team sports when you're united around a belief or something you want to accomplish.

Tobin Heath

#22. I think we've bounced back and really been resilient. Even after a bad period, we take over and we seem like we're on a mission. That comes with leadership and experience and a lot of things. A lot of it is mental toughness and resiliency in the situation you're at, just trusting in your teammates.

Mike Fisher

#23. Are you one of his teammates?"
"Yeah," Adam said, and it wasn't a lie because according to some people, both he and Tony were playing for the other team. Which made them teammates of a sort.

Suzanne Brockmann

#24. I think my teammates make me look a lot better than I am.

Tim Tebow

#25. 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

#26. I just need to get more aggressive and let my teammates feel all that energy and all that emotion.

Pau Gasol

#27. I try to get control of the tempo, control of the flow, and get my teammates the ball in the best position to score.

Deron Williams

#28. They are always telling us that Carolina Blue is not a color, that it is really Columbia blue or sky blue. But there is no bad blood amongst the teammates. All of our kidding is in good fun.

Lorrie Fair

#29. I'm familiar with a lot of guys, hang out with those guys. A couple of my teammates actually went to Florida, so I'm familiar with a lot of those guys. It's going to be fun walking out with a victory and rubbing it in their faces.

Joanna Noelle Levesque

#30. I would never recruit a player who yells at his teammates, disrespected his high school coach, or scores 33 points a game and his team goes 10-10.

Dean Smith

#31. They stayed by my side the whole time - my teammates, family and all the fans.

William Green

#32. It wasn't enough that I had to worry about playing well and winning the game, but I also had to deal with possibility that one of my teammates could be dragged off the field by the inhabitants of the mental hospital.

Wes Locher

#33. I've always said, just go ask my teammates if you want to know about me. Go ask the guys that I've played with. Don't ask or get information about me from people who are not in the locker room or not around me all of the time. Then you'll get legit answers.

Allen Iverson

#34. At times like this, Eryn didn't feel like they were just twins. They were teammates. They were partners. They were two halves of the same brain.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

#35. I just try to just roll with the punches. I mean, once the team pretty much starts closing out, just try to get in attack mode, and at the same time, try to find my teammates. It's kind of hard, hitting the shots I was hitting, to try and pass the ball, but you've got to figure out a way.

J. R. Smith

#36. I got a lot of grief from my teammates about that. It might backfire on my mom. Hopefully, my brother will have another chance somewhere down the road.

Scott Niedermayer

#37. I love to play the game, love to be around the rink, and love to joke around with my teammates and have some fun.

Patrick Kane

#38. I'M HOPEFUL, because I know that while we still have race issues in America, we enjoy a much different normal than those of our parents and grandparents. I see it in my personal relationships with teammates, friends and mentors. And it's a beautiful thing.

Benjamin Watson

#39. 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.

Kris Humphries

#40. Every team requires unity. A team has to move as one unit, one force, with each person understanding and assisting the roles of his teammates. If the team doesn't do this, whatever the reason, it goes down in defeat. You win or lose as a team, as a family.

Jack Kemp

#41. It's always interesting to be playing against some of my best friends and some of my longtime teammates. You get to see them before the game and after the game and it's always nice to catch up but when the whistle blows it's sort of all business on the field.

Heather O'Reilly

#42. It's important to respect both your teammates and your opponents. Friendships can make a victory last forever.

James Koven

#43. 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

#44. That's what really motivates me: to make my coaches proud, my teammates proud, and the fans proud.

Aaron Rodgers

#45. Just a huge credit goes to the GM Goodwrench team and all my teammates that went before me. It's been a good weekend for us so far and hopefully we can put it all together tomorrow night.

Kevin Harvick

#46. 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.

Shani Davis

#47. One of the most important qualities for any young athlete is the ability to believe in oneself. If you have confidence in yourself, in your teammates and your coach, you will succeed.

Chuck Knox

#48. I can't stand it when a player whines to me or his teammates or his wife or the writers or anyone else. A whiner is almost always wrong. A winner never whines.

Paul Brown

#49. I'll miss all my teammates. I'll miss Elvis (Andrus) and (Adrian) Beltre, Mitch (Moreland), Matt Harrison and [manager Ron] Washington. To be honest with you, I hope they go 0-162. I got friends, and I love my friends, but I hope they lose their ass.

Ian Kinsler

#50. Your teammates will stretch your vision or choke your dream.

John C. Maxwell

#51. My teammates are the best.

David Ortiz

#52. 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.

Mitch Gaylord

#53. When I was a player, I didn't expect my teammates to play the way I did. I did expect them to work hard hard every day and get better. And I never learned anything by losing.

Larry Bird

#54. I know where my game is. I know I'm a power hitter and an RBI guy. I need to get on base for my teammates behind me and just stick with my game. I don't try to do too much. Sometimes when you try to do too much in this game you pretty much can't do anything. And that's pretty much my mentality.

Marco Scutaro

#55. The important thing is that your teammates have to know you're pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

Kobe Bryant

#56. Why do you hang out with him?"
"We're teammates."
Ahhh. And if blood was thicker than water, then football, evidently, would congeal in one's veins.

Rachel Vincent

#57. Every player needs a little time to adjust to new teammates and the mentality of the coach when you change clubs.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

#58. The heart and soul of a Navy SEAL is somebody who's committed to their country and committed to their teammates.

Howard E. Wasdin

#59. Being there every week for my teammates is really important to me. It's about accountability. I hear stuff about the 'toughest quarterback in the league' and all that; what's that mean?

Peyton Manning

#60. 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.

Carl Lewis

#61. Trades are happening, and I have two players that if they don't get their crap together I'm going to castrate them."

He took in a sharp breath. "Don't castrate my teammates, sweetheart, it will affect how they play.

Toni Aleo

#62. The walk-off win provides one of baseball's most thrilling outbursts, launching a couple dozen tense teammates out of the dugout into a frenzied mosh pit of elation.

Dirk Lammers

#63. I took the game seriously. It was my profession. My teammates also took losing hard. We would all sit in the locker room after losing a big game and talk about how we could have done something differently to change the outcome

Walt Frazier

#64. What type of teammates do you want to play with? Be that teammate yourself

John Calipari

#65. We can control a few things: our attitude, our effort, our focus and how we go about treating our teammates.

Tim Tebow

#66. I know the next level for me is to make my teammates better, to win a championship, and to where they have confidence that they can score 20 or 15 points a night and be consistent.

Michael Redd

#67. I'm a social butterfly. Once I get somewhere, I can make myself at ease and start the team bonding and build a relationship with my team, all my teammates, all the coaches, all the coaching staff.

Drew Gooden

#68. When you come to a new team, new world, new people, you feel a little bit uncomfortable. But my teammates, they are tremendous guys.

Alexander Ovechkin

#69. If I miss anything about the sport, it's the camaraderie of old teammates.

Bo Jackson

#70. 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.

Grant Hill

#71. 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

#72. I had dreams of catching the ball for the final out in the World Series and being mobbed by my teammates. Well, I guess all my dreams didn't come true.

Robin Yount

#73. I want to see if the player communicates with his teammates and how he responds to coaching. Another thing to remember is players' bodies can develop better than their skills.

Isaiah Thomas

#74. Yeah, I'm excited about it, my teammates are telling me to look at the basket, so that's what I'm trying to do.

Jason Kidd

#75. I have great memories of my years in Edmonton and the players who were my teammates.

Paul Coffey

#76. The sign of a great player is not how much he scores, but how much he lifts his teammates performance

Red Holzman

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

Asif Kapadia

#78. High school sports: where lessons of life are still being learned, and where athletes still compete for the love of the game and their teammates.

Michael Powers

#79. Because we always have to wear a uniform to compete, my teammates and I look the exact same. My belt is the only accessory that I get to choose. I usually wear a yellow cloth belt with cherries or a leather belt with a beautiful tree buckle that I got at a thrift store.

Hannah Kearney

#80. My job is to play quarterback, and I'm going to do that the best way I know how, because I owe that to my teammates regardless of who is out there on the field with me.

Tom Brady

#81. And when other people see me play basketball ... the way I treat my teammates, the opponents, the refs, that's all a reflection of God's image and God's love so that's the stuff I try to focus on.

Jeremy Lin

#82. Always double-knot your sneakers. One of my teammates once lost a shoe during a game!

Heather Mitts

#83. I think you have to work very hard and dedicate yourself and have the respect of your teammates before you're about to go out and just try to take a game over by yourself.

Larry Bird

#84. I am proud of my heritage and have happily taken advantage of every opportunity to educate my teammates and Steeler Nation about American Samoa, both as a player and in the community, through the Troy and Theodora Polamalu Foundation Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation.

Troy Polamalu

#85. Plays are not as important as players, and players are not as important as teammates

Don Meyer

#86. Life is a puzzle, a riddle, a test, a mystery, a game - whatever challenge you wish to compare it to. Just remember, you're not the only participant; no one person holds all the answers, the pieces, or the cards. The trick to success in this life is to accumulate teammates and not opponents.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#87. I don't just try to score. The challenge is elevating my teammates to be able to win a championship.

Kobe Bryant

#88. 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

#89. Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.

Magic Johnson

#90. I couldn't have come close without my teammates' help because the Knicks didn't want me to make 100.

Wilt Chamberlain

#91. I can't play the game of basketball and live my life on what other people expect me to do or what they think I should do. That doesn't make me happy. What makes me happy is being able to make plays for my teammates, to be able to represent the name on the back of my jersey.

LeBron James

#92. I'd see people being really successful, whether it was my teammates or big-name fighters like Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson, and I'd think, 'I want to be a legend like that.'

Holly Holm

#93. When you pull on that jersey, you represent yourself and your teammates, and the name on the front is a hell of a lot more important than the one on the back. Get that through your head!

Herb Brooks

#94. I want my teammates to know I have their backs.

Bryce Harper

#95. Most people's natural inclination is to judge themselves according to their best qualities while they measure others by their worst. As a result, they point to areas where their teammates need to grow. But the truth is that every person is responsible for his own growth first.

John C. Maxwell

#96. A clean, hard-fought wrestling match is the most honest of athletic contests. There is no technological interventions, no teammates to blame, no panel of judges to bias the score. In wrestling, you compete or you quit. No alibis. I like that

Dan Gable

#97. When you need a friend, you can always count on your teammates.

Jim Brown

#98. Use volleyball quotes to motivate your teammates to play hard.

John Kessel

#99. Playing basketball with my teammates was a gift! We cant play any more but we live the memories each day!

Theresa Grentz

#100. Lamar is just Lamar. My teammates probably can explain that a little better than I can. If I just go out there and do what I do and be myself, it shouldn't be a problem.

Lamar Odom