Quotes About Support

I enjoy sacrificing myself for my teammates.

One reason I've had success is that I try to think of everyone around me as more important than myself - teammates, coaches, equipment guys, everybody.

I get booed everywhere I go. If that can take that off my teammates, that's good. Everyone else can just be calm.

The best part of when you reveal your authentic self publicly is that it will allow those people around you, whether it's your teammates or people who you thought were friends, you will see their true colors come out. Some people who you might have thought would not be supporters end up being some of your biggest supporters.

You always try to make your teammates better. You help out your teammates, and they help you out in return. As they get better and better, they can help you more and more. At least, I've always seen it that way.

I just try to set good screens and get my teammates open.

It makes it easy for a player when you've got really good teammates and when everyone wants the same thing.

When you see the rival make a certain pass, you don't need to look behind you. You know 100 per cent that all your teammates will go with you.

People have to understand what my game is. It's not all about numbers. There's a bigger picture here. I don't create off the dribble. I rely on my teammates; my role is to set screens and get rebounds.

I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. That's what I try to do.

My teammates, they keep you focused.

When you're at home for Duke-Carolina, you have a crowd of close to 10,000 around you, loving you. That's awesome. But it's also a lot of fun in Chapel Hill, where it's you, your teammates and your coaches, and no one else. I enjoyed the games at Chapel Hill a little more because of that.

I want my teammates to know I have their backs.

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.

I'm the kind of guy that I never forget my teammates.

There's nothing worse than seeing your teammates battle, knowing you can't help.

A lot of players have told me they see me as a protector of my teammates, that, side by side, I'm there when something goes down, and I step up beside them and for them when things get nasty. I play the game hard, and I play it physical.

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

My teammates would never say anything bad about me, even if they thought it. That's the kind of locker room we have.

I have great teammates around me who make plays.

As someone who loves being on the field with his teammates, it's hard to hear that you're not going to be the one playing.

That's the only thing that got me here is my teammates. My teammates and my coach. That's the only reason I'm here.

I don't know, scene stealing is something I see as, people look at it, it could be a positive thing, but I really like to think of myself as a team player. It's kind of like one player can make the other teammates better, kind of like Larry Byrd dishing off.

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