Quotes About Team

There's always going to be a lot of distractions in the NFL - that's just how it is; it's on the biggest stage - but really focusing on what I have to do now to help my team win, help me be at my best physically when I'm out there on the field and mentally, because that will ultimately help my team no matter what role I'm playing.

I know who I am as a player, I just want to help a team win.

When I left college ball, I think I was prepared to coach a team, but I don't think I was prepared to help the team win.

Defense is so important for helping your team win games and for the game in general.

We had a reward system and a protection system. We would reward players for big plays, things that can help your team win. And then also, we paid guys money for protection, especially guys who couldn't protect themselves and especially offensive players.

At the end of the day, all I can focus on is doing what I need to do, as a player, to help the team win.

It's hard going out there and not doing what I can to help this team win.

I remember the day I met Cammi Granato, a former star on the U.S. women's hockey team. We were at a Women's Sports Foundation dinner in 1996, and she came over to introduce herself. She had watched the U.S. women's soccer team win gold at the Atlanta Olympics and was hopeful the U.S. women's hockey team could do the same.

I don't think I was a good enough coach to help an NBA team win a game when I first got to that league.

I'm just trying to go out and do what I can to help the team win.

Anytime I get the opportunity to get the ball, I just want to make good plays and help my team win the game and just create big plays.

What do you call a co-worker these days? Neither teammate nor confederate will do, and partner is too legalistic. The answer brought from academia to the political world by Henry Kissinger and now bandied in the boardroom is colleague. It has a nice upper-egalitarian feel, related to the good fellowship of collegial.

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.

On the Sabbath, I'm supposed to focus on Jesus and the resurrection. But if I don't practice, I let the team down. I don't want my teammates to think that I think I'm special.

It is healthy to have competition and intense competition, and then, when you walk away from it, you are still teammates, and you play the same position and that we can still put the team first.

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

With my experience, I think I've earned that respect from the team and from my teammates.

On or off the team, I will still feel that I am with my teammates.

Everton was a great club for me with great teammates.

Guys that are competitive and love to play the game of football and love their teammates, you can't have enough of those guys on your team.

I'm going to support my teammates. I'm a team guy.

When I started to do it with precision, I realized how much setting good screens made us better as a team offensively. It made things easy for me and my teammates.

My teammates are part of my family as well.

Saying Kaepernick is a distraction is based largely on opinion. You could say his decision to kneel for the national anthem was detrimental to the team. If that is so, I would hope you'd note that Kaepernick's teammates gave him the Len Eshmont Award at the end of the season.