Quotes About Friendship

Team sports are very important for shaping personalities. It's important that kids understand the mentality behind playing team sports and playing for one another and playing with friends.

My best teammate was Roberto Carlos.

My teammate in college, Melissa Jones, lost her sight in one eye. Hers wasn't a hit to the eye; she fell and hit her head on the court, and then someone fell on her.

My wife is my teammate. She's my best friend. I love her.

As a player, I just want to be remembered as a good teammate, that's it.

Danieal Manning is a friend of mine, he was a teammate for five or six years, and that's the way it is.

When I first came into the league, my first three, four years, I had a teammate from college win a Super Bowl.

There will never be another Mariano Rivera. He was a friend and a champion of a teammate.

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!'

Bottom line, I have nothing but respect for Peyton Manning... He was always a great teammate to me; he's still a great friend to this day.

In college, I would do my teammate's hair and their makeup sometimes. I did a friend's makeup at the 2008 Olympics, and she said, 'Have you ever considered taking classes?' For some reason, it had never crossed my mind.

Once I was walking with teammate Joy Fawcett in a hotel in Haiti. We were barefoot, and the lights went out to save electricity. Joy felt something crunch beneath her feet, and she felt the need to shine her flashlight on the floor. It was, I swear, a five-foot cockroach.

I don't think you can go back to any team I ever played on and find someone who will say I was a bad teammate.

I grew up in a very culturally diverse area of America, and I am very proud to come from there. I am also proud that my inner circle of friends has never been defined by race but by the content of their character. Any former teammate or anyone who has met me can attest to this, and I pride myself on not being a judgmental person.

In some crazy sort of way, if I died helping a teammate or a friend or someone that I love, I think I could live with it. My family probably couldn't, but I think I could.

Yuzvendra Chahal, India's leg-spinner, is another IPL teammate. He's also a great guy and very funny.

It's never easy to watch. It's never great to see your friend or teammate put himself through hell.

Lionel Messi is an excellent teammate, he's a fantastic guy. We lived through a lot together, a lot of games, a lot of goals - he knows me well.

It's always exciting to have a guy you played with in college as a teammate in the NFL.

You never know what anyone's going through, and you always want to be there and be that teammate to support them.

That's the definition of a teammate, being together, being there for your teammate.

It is always painful when you see a teammate leaving. You create a bond, and you have been together for so long, and you are going to do your best with your guys.

I will miss Messi so much. He's a great teammate, a great guy. We've lived a lot of things together, a lot of matches, a lot of goals. He knows me well.

Having the trust and respect from your teammate is where it starts and that is getting to know guys off the court, even before basketball.