Quotes About Sacrifice

Anything to help the team win, I'm willing to do. Whether its 32 carries or 10 carries, I'm willing to do it.

I don't mind being a second fiddle. I don't mind that. I don't care whatever happens, whatever helps my team get a championship is what I want to do. Whatever helps my team win is what I want to do.

As an NBA player you want to help your team win at any cost, that's my main goal.

In the playoffs, it's not going to be pretty. There's going to be some games where you don't score. But are you going to take a charge for a teammate?

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.

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

I never want to let my teammates or coaches down, so I always fight through the days when I am exhausted or experiencing discomfort with injuries and headaches.

I enjoy sacrificing myself for my teammates.

At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.

I'm 100 percent a byproduct of my sport. I always tell my teammates that I only have muscles where they get to play.

I'm just out there supporting my teammates, but when I'm out there, I'm going to lay it out on the line.

Putting my teammates first was the best thing I could've done. Once I did that, things started to happen for me. I started to see the game differently. It wasn't about me anymore. It was more about my team.

Obviously there are certain times when you need to be selfish in the game, but to be selfless and do what's best for your teammates, I think that that's winning basketball.

I'm willing to run through a wall for my teammates, for organizations that I play for. So whatever is asked of me, I try to do.

The best thing I can say is that I put it all on the line for my teammates, my family, and my coaches.

You got cheap foreign labor to protect Lissa?

And as I did it, it was like pierc­ing my own heart at the same time.

Guys do ridiculous things for love.

Being with you is the best thing that's ever happened to me, the one perfect decision I've made in a lifetime of fumbling and poor judgment. I'd go through it all again to be by your side. Never doubt that. Never doubt how I feel about you.

My mother was right. With their speed, even our fifteen-minute lead might not be enough. And yet, I still couldn't take a step. I couldn't stop staring at the cave, back where Dimitri was, back where half of my soul was. He couldn't be dead. If he was, then surely I would be dead too.

the hardest of war's hard truths—that for a new nation to live, young men must die, often alone, usually in pain, and sometimes to no obvious purpose. He, more than anyone, would be responsible for ordering those men to their deaths.

Never before in the history of warfare have so few been commanded by so many.

War happens inside a man," Eric Sevareid concluded. "It happens to one man alone. It can never be communicated.… A million martyred lives leave an empty place at only one family table.

In one typical battalion, of forty-one officers who had landed on Sicily in July, only nine remained, and six of them had been wounded, according