Teammate Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Play, Able, Tough

  Larry Bird (1990). “Drive: The Story of My Life”, Bantam Books

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• 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

  Guy, Gone, Kind

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• I hate letting my teammates down. I know I'm not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don't feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win.

  LeBron James

  Hate, Loss, Winning

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• The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy.

  Jerry Tarkanian

  Basketball, Sports, Teamwork

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• 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

  Sports, Thinking, Trying

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• You're an idiot. You've screwed up every play we ever ran. You're too stupid to even remember the plays. We ought to get rid of you.

  Michael Jordan

  Stupid, Play, Idiot

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

  Michael Jordan

  Hate, Men, Balls

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• 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

  Successful, Important, Want

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• Gaylord Perry and Willie McCovey should know each other like a book. They've been ex-teammates for years now.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Book

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• I'm looking for players who make their teammates better. You do that with enthusiasm and passion.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Passion, Player

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• If you pass the ball to Bill Cartwright, you'll never get the ball from me.

  Michael Jordan

  Balls, Bills, Ifs

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• I have short goals - to get better every day, to help my teammates every day - but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It's all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing.

  LeBron James

  Dream, Winning, Nba Championships

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• We're beating a lot of poor teams. So what? We won a lot of games last year, too. Will Horace and Bill still be playing at this level in the playoffs...Can Pip keep it up?

  Michael Jordan

  Team, Years, Games

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• 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

  Baseball, Kids, Thinking

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• 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.

  Don Drysdale

  Team, Two, Littles

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• 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

  Leadership, Basketball, Believe

  Larry Bird (1990). “Drive: The Story of My Life”, Bantam Books

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• 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

  Games, People, Different

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• It's probably a twelve-day. He needs two days to wake up.

  Michael Jordan

  Two, Twelve, Needs

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• Your teammates see you through the good and the bad. They see where your foundation lies.

  Tobin Heath

  Lying, Foundation

  "A conversation with U.S. women’s soccer team member Tobin Heath". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. December 2011.

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• 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 Clarke

  Football, Fun, Player

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

  Doug Collins

  Basketball, Eye, Nba

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• I want to keep improving, continue to help my teammates improve, make my teammates look good. Continue bringing something new to the game, never getting completely content and always trying to get better.

  Alex Morgan

  Games, Always Trying, Get Better

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Hard work and togetherness. They go hand in hand. You need the hard work because it's such a tough atmosphere... to win week in and week out. You need togetherness because you don't always win, and you gotta hang though together.

  Tony Dungy

  Motivational, Teamwork, Hard Work

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• You put all the other stuff aside and go out and do your job, and mine is to be the best I can be for my teammates.

  Tom Brady

  Jobs, Stuff, Being The Best

  "Tom Brady on pressure, Gisele and Trump". Interview with John Carucci, www.businessinsider.com. October 15, 2015.

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• 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

  Team, Butterfly, Coaching

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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