Quotes About Attitude

I come in, I work hard, I do everything I can to help the team win and wherever the chips fall they fall.

I was a team captain, I was the guy for the first couple years. And then all of the sudden I was just the backup. It wasn't easy. I think it would be easy to bow my head and feel sorry for myself, but I knew as a captain I had to be a great teammate.

I've never really been too fussed about the kind of teammate I have.

I will go off at times. Overall, I'm a pretty good teammate.

My role is what I make it to be. That's just playing the right way, being a good teammate and hopefully everything else takes care of itself.

I think when you've played in a league for as long as I have, it would be foolish for a coach not to ask a player with that kind of knowledge about other players. A lot of this goes beyond the court. Are they a good teammate? Are they good in the locker room? What's their attitude like? Do they work hard?

I had a teammate whose motto was, 'If I make a million dollars, I must spend a million dollars.' I was like, 'If I make a million dollars, I'm hoping I can keep a million dollars.'

My main focus was to be a great teammate. That's all I hoped to accomplish. I don't really care about legacies.

I take an approach of focusing on characteristics and qualities that I want to be as a teammate and the numbers will take care of themselves.

It's easy to be the greatest teammate when you're winning. How about when you're losing? How about when you're down 20?

I think I'm teaching my teammates that they can still be successful while having fun and enjoying the moment rather than being a stone cold brick.

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 hate divers, like Cristiano Ronaldo, who might be the greatest athlete in the sport, but he's a big baby. If things are going well he's great, but when things are going badly it's the ref's fault, it's his teammates' fault.

I just want to do my job and have fun and enjoy my teammates, and I don't need to tell everybody that, oh, this is what I'm doing or this is how good I am.

You never want to put yourself in a position where you can bring negativity to yourself or the organization and your teammates.

I actually prefer teammates that have emotions. It means you care, compared to a guy that's kind of just nonchalant and goes about it like it doesn't matter. So I want guys that care. I want guys that show they care.

Winning makes coaches, teammates, owners, fans all happy... I didn't care if we win 7-6 as long as we win.

My body language, it doesn't have anything to do with my coaches or my teammates.

I don't think I'm soft. I don't think my teammates think I'm soft. I don't know where that comes from, but... whatever.

I pray that God keeps me safe on the floor, and that I'm able to have a good attitude towards my teammates.

I come to work every day and fit in, and be respectful of my teammates.

We named the book 'Extreme Ownership' because we really found that when we looked at not only at leaders but at teams that were the most successful, we found that the ones that had this attitude of extreme ownership were the ones that did the best, and it's definitely an attitude that I had.

Teams usually take on the personality of the coach.

Was that how I appeared? I often thought of myself as a trigger-happy queen bitch and tried to think about my behavior with her these last few days. I had sparred with her a lot, but among the others we'd met, I supposed I had been friendly. Mead, Richelle (2009-08-07). Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel (p. 118). Penguin Young Readers Group. Kindle Edition.