Teammate Quotes

#1. There will never be another Mariano Rivera. He was a friend and a champion of a teammate. He really cared about the game of baseball, the way it was played, and whatever it took to win that night.

Jorge Posada

#2. I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

Kobe Bryant

#3. It's nice to be able to support programs like 5 Hole Threads' in our communities to keep more kids involved in sports. The Life lessons that are learned from being a teammate are so valuable. All kids deserve the chance to experience that.

Dan Ellis

#4. I never set out to intentionally hurt any player and never enticed any teammate to intentionally hurt another player. I also never put any money into a bounty pool or helped to create a bounty pool intended to pay out money for injuring other players.

Jonathan Vilma

#5. You have a choice to make when you're not playing. Either you're invested and a great teammate, or your not

Brad Stevens

#6. 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

#7. I want to be known as the best teammate ever.

Kevin Garnett

#8. I get a feeling about where a teammate is going to be. A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.

Wayne Gretzky

#9. The greatest compliment to any player is he is a great teammate. We can't all be great players, but we can all be great teammates

Jay Bilas

#10. I simply want to be remembered as a great competitor and a great teammate.

Steve Nash

#11. I want to see a player on the football field. I want to see what kind of teammate they are, what kind of leadership qualities they have. I want to see how aggressive they are, how much fun they have playing the game.

Roy Clark

#12. He also had deep brown eyes, light brown skin and an infectious grin, even in the middle of a grueling SWAT workout. In short, exactly her type. If only he wasn't a teammate, making him off-limits. And if only she didn't have baggage from her past that weighed more than he did.

Elizabeth Heiter

#13. I was also very lucky to be a teammate of two of the greatest players to have ever played the game. I learned very early on by playing for Frank Robinson and with Henry Aaron that even the greatest players in the game were just one of the guys.

Robin Yount

#14. I've never had a teammate competing with me my whole life.

Shawn Johnson

#15. I had three rules for my players: No profanity. Don't criticize a teammate. Never be late.

John Wooden

#16. I will respect the limits of my experience but that won't stop me from trying to lead by example of my work. Being a good teammate and picking them up on and off the field is a simple goal of mine.

Anthony Rizzo

#17. My game is really played above time. I don't say that like I'm saying I'm ahead of my time. I'm saying, like, if I'm on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I've thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that's the right place to go to.

LeBron James

#18. It was a great idea from my teammate Jamal Crawford. He kept telling me to jump over Spud, so we decided to call him and he was more than willing to participate with me. I just thank God for him.

Nate Robinson

#19. What do you want, douche-whore? Haven't you ruined my night enough by interrupting my mouth fucking session with your fuckhot teammate? Now you have to disturb my masturbation session, too?

Helena Hunting

#20. Lubo Penev is a fighter, he never gives up and remains cool during tough moments. I remember when he was sick with cancer, but fought and returned to football. Most people would have given up and prayed to God for mercy.
(on former teammate Luboslav Penev)

Hristo Stoichkov

#21. I've never been jealous of another teammate. Sure, some guys are faster than I am, stronger than I am, but none of them have ever tried to steal the girl I love away from me.

Collette West

#22. I've had teammates I didn't get along with, who hasn't? I've never had a teammate call me a bad guy, while he was my teammate, and if he did when I was gone what kind of teammate was he anyway?

Curt Schilling

#23. I knew in that instant that i needed to get to know her spirit, feel that fire, dive into that passion-and i didn't even know anything about her other than the fact that she was my teammate's sister and her name was Myla

Kristen Hope Mazzola

#24. In April, he spent ten days off the grid training with Carmichael and Bob Roll, Carmichael's affable thirty-eight-year-old former 7-Eleven teammate, in the college town of Boone, North Carolina, in the Appalachian Mountains.

Reed Albergotti

#25. I really do try hard to be a good teammate. I can't run very fast, but I try to always run hard. I may strike out a lot, but I try to walk to set up the guys who are hitting after me.

Jim Thome

#26. I love scoring for the fans, for the team, for myself. That's not to say that I won't pass if I see a teammate in a better scoring position. But I like to score.

Patrick Kane

#27. Just imagine how fast, innovative and excellent your business will be once every single teammate - from the janitor to the executive - begins to see themselves as the CEO of their own area of responsibility.

Robin S. Sharma

#28. He represented the Twins , but I think everyone in baseball felt like they were a teammate of Kirby Puckett.

Jim Leyland

#29. I enjoyed being a teammate of Deion Sanders. He brings different elements to the game that many people would not even realize, and to watch and witness a superior talent like him and watch him prepare and train, and study the game is truly amazing.

Emmitt Smith

#30. Make me, snow-bitch," she said. "Please don't make her," said Andy. "We'll just wind up with two more hours of paperwork if Henry assaults a teammate.

Seanan McGuire

#31. I had only one Teammate. And He moved, as ever, in mysterious ways.

Marcus Luttrell

#32. When things are said and done, I always want to be remembered as a great teammate and a great player.

Joe Mauer

#33. players need to know how long to keep possession in one zone before passing to another zone with an unmarked teammate.

Kieran Smith

#34. The thing is, I don't do these things for recognition, being a good teammate, being a positive member of the community. I do them because those things make me whole and complete.

Dwyane Wade

#35. This sport is just crazy. Your worst enemy in college is your teammate and friend when you get to the NBA. Who would have thought it?

Gilbert Arenas

#36. A good teammate is someone willing to get outside of personal thoughts and emotions, a friend who tries to understand, appreciate, and encourage other members of the team.

Don Kardong

#37. I think that my career speaks for itself and shows the type of player I am. I have never had a teammate who didn't enjoy playing with me. There are always going to be skeptics, but chemistry will definitely not be an issue.

Chris Webber

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

Willie Stargell

#39. 1. Be on time. 2. Never criticize a teammate. 3. Never use profanity.

John Wooden

#40. Well, it used to be Kobe Bryant ... the second best all time ... now, I have a new favorite player to play against ... my former teammate, LeBron James.

Dwyane Wade

#41. I'm Chief Executive Officer at Art of the Olympians Museum in Fort Myers, Florida, which was founded by my Mexico City teammate Al Oerter and his wife Cathy in 2005. It shows that Olympians can have another life; we have got art from more than 100 Olympians.

Bob Beamon

#42. You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle. I feel very much like a father sometimes but sometimes I feel like a teammate.

Dusty Baker

#43. My reward is just to be a better man. You're so close to losing a loved one ... the ultimate goal is to be a better daddy, a better son, a better teammate.

Jermaine O'Neal

#44. Basketball Rule #6
A great team
has a good scorer
with a teammate
who's on point
and ready
to assist.

Kwame Alexander

#45. I played on an all-boys team in the 8th grade, but they wouldnt throw me the ball even though I was on their team. One day I stole the ball from my own teammate and I made a basket. From that point on, everyone yelled Give the ball to the girl! I was the only girl on the whole league!

Lisa Leslie

#46. When your teammate looks you in the eye and holds you accountable, that's the greatest kind of leadership there is

Doug Collins

#47. When Grandma Mazur is talking about the reason for the improved play of her 91-year-old bowling teammate, she said:
She's doing better now that we got her the longer tubing to her oxygen tank.

Janet Evanovich

#48. Going to the gym on my own I struggle with, but when I'm in there with a teammate or a group of guys, it's the ultimate environment.

James Spithill

#49. If you're truly living the way Jesus lived, then you're going to get those people that disagree. But you're also going to get those people who, if you're loving them the right way and you're being a good teammate, are going to like you too.

Mike Fisher

#50. In any case, I was less unhappy than the teammate who wondered whether the purported tribute of being a "well-rounded detective" was a jibe around his weight.

Edward Conlon

#51. Any teammate of mine that had a kid and a boy that was capable of playing baseball, I think I set a terrific example of 'Don't do this' and 'Don't do that.' And that's one of the things that I'm most proud of.

Bob Uecker

#52. Chris Boardman was my first teammate and my first roommate. I saw him finish his career with an hour record and thought, 'Yeh, what a way to go out!'

Jens Voigt

#53. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it.

Larry Bird

#54. I remember Simon O'Donnell being struck with cancer during Australia's 1987 World Cup campaign. I know very well what it is like to have a teammate who has been struck with a potentially fatal disease. He fought through: managed to get himself back to 100% fitness and back to playing again.

Tom Moody

#55. one negative teammate can sabotage a team. One person can't make a team but one person can break a team.

Jon Gordon

#56. Omg. My long time teammate on the Nadadores and team USA, Fran Crippen, passed away today while racing in Dubai.

Chloe Sutton

#57. I'm just here to compete and do the best I can and let things play out and just be the best teammate I can be, regardless of the situation.

Tarvaris Jackson

#58. Whenever you're working towards something greater than yourself, it's almost a selflessness that the Lord delights in when you're serving your teammate or your friend or your sister in Christ.

Tobin Heath

#59. You need to work as hard to be a great teammate as you do to be a great player

Jon Gordon

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

John Calipari

#61. I am hunting for people who would be a good colleague or a teammate, not someone who works for me.

Jack Dangermond

#62. How good can we expect to be if our best player is not our best teammate

Brad Stevens

#63. It comes down to this: What kind of father are you? What kind of husband are you? What kind of coach or teammate are you? What kind of son are you? What kind of friend are you? Success comes in terms of relationships.

Joe Ehrmann

#64. Being a good teammate is when you try to sprint down a ball that everyone thinks is going out of bounds. But you go after it anyways and you get it.

Mia Hamm

#65. Masters, this won't go anywhere."
He draws back slightly and frowns. "Is that how you think of me? As Masters? I'm not your teammate."
"I'm not anything to you."
The side of his mouth quirks up. "That's what you think.

Jen Frederick

#66. I'm a teammate guy, so whatever I can do to help my team to win like I have the past two years, that's what I want to do. If it takes for me to play first base, third base, right field, I just want to win the game.

Albert Pujols

#67. When I look in the mirror, I don't see a person who's made the kind of impact that Mia Hamm made on the game. She's still my idol, the greatest player and the greatest teammate. She achieved so much in so many different ways. What she did for women's soccer can't be measured.

Abby Wambach

#68. Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.

Larry Bird

#69. 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

#70. This is a sad day for the Minnesota Twins, Major League Baseball and baseball fans everywhere. I loved Kirby deeply. A tremendous teammate, Kirby will always be remembered for his never-ending hustle, infectious personality, trademark smile and commitment to the community.

Carl Pohlad

#71. Tim Tebow is a great guy, but he wasn't a good teammate.

Brady Quinn

#72. A passion for life is one of the most attractive qualities in a human being. If you want a teammate or a life mate who loves to be around you, all you need to do is love to be around.

Denis Waitley

#73. If you're in the best team in the world, you or your teammate have to win.

Fernando Alonso

#74. Accept your teammates for what they are and inspire them to become all they can be.

Robin Sharma

#75. I love seeing my teammates succeed. That's what I get more excited about than anything

LeBron James

#76. I just haven't really had a chance to allow to sink in. I'm sure there is going to come a time when reality is going to hit me and I'm going to know that it's going to be a while before I help my teammates, and that's going to be hard for me.

Gabe Kapler

#77. If I want to win a title I have to beat the champion myself, I don't have teammates inside the ring.

Travis Browne

#78. Accept a loss as a learning experience, and never point fingers at your teammates

Michael Jordan

#79. If someone wears something you like, you make comments on it. And if someone wears something we don't like, we make comments on it, too. That's just what guys do, what teammates do. Besides that, we don't really compete in that space.

Dwyane Wade

#80. 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

#81. We're not winning because of talent. We're just beating bad teams.

Michael Jordan

#82. Don't do anything as an individual that will make you stand out from your teammates.

Mike Krzyzewski

#83. I never rushed the fact that I wanted to be in the NBA or rushed the fact, you know, they asked me about the NBA. I always (unintelligible) back to the fact that I just love playing with my teammates.

LeBron James

#84. I want my teammates to understand that when No. 5 says something to you, that means it's very important because he doesn't talk a lot. If I'm saying something to you, it's going to help you.

Manti Te'o

#85. My teammates are the ultimate motivation. They mean everything to me. They are the reason I want to be at my best.

Julie Foudy

#86. Teammates are there for each other even after the noise of the crowd is gone.

Jim Brown

#87. If the selection process is right and its members GOOD, then there could be no reason why the collection of the teammates be not BETTER and bright who would work in the BEST interest of the organization, either individually or jointly, to bring sustainability in achieving newer growth height.

Anuj

#88. Messi not scoring? Great players aren't only great because of goals. If they don't score, they offer goals to teammates

Bernd Schuster

#89. I was waiting for my teammates to embrace me and no one came, ... I told them, 'Come hug me or the referee isn't going to allow it.'

Diego Maradona

#90. You have to gain respect from your teammates. You have to earn it.

Daunte Culpepper

#91. You don't inspire your teammates by showing them how amazing you are. You inspire them by showing them how amazing they are.

Robyn Benincasa

#92. How the hell can I make my teammates better by practicing?!

Allen Iverson

#93. Really get to know and establish relationships with your teammates because they are your new family and they will be the ones there for you when anything goes wrong.

Alex Morgan

#94. You stand up for your teammates. Your loyalty is to them. You protect them through good and bad, because they'd do the same for you.

Yogi Berra

#95. Anyone who loves his opinions more than his teammates will advance his opinions but set back his team.

John C. Maxwell

#96. I hate being out there with those garbage men. They don't get you the ball.

Michael Jordan

#97. I'm expecting a lot from myself, I have set the bar high and I want to do really well for my teammates. I love working out and preparing so I have spent a lot of time doing that.

Giovani Bernard

#98. I don't miss playing for the Yankees. I miss my friends, my teammates.

Rafael Soriano

#99. The stereotype of a leader is one who talks and peps people up and things like that, but in actuality you have to listen to your teammates.

Chris Bosh

#100. Every team I'm on, I expect to win. I expect to push my teammates as much as I can, and I expect them to do the same with me.

Ashlyn Harris