Quotes About Accountability

If head coaches weren't important to the success of a team, then owners wouldn't fire them all the time.

If you got to Manchester City, if you don't work, you're out of the team.

There is a great responsibility on the team to perform well, because our supporters and the whole of the country are expecting us to do just that.

Being a leader requires being confident enough in your own decisions and those of your team to own them when they fail. The very best leaders take the blame but share the credit.

It is a team game, we all play for each other; obviously we win and lose as a team, but I like to take the blame when we lose.

There are no excuses in fighting. You can be playing a team sport and have a good game, and you can lose. In fighting, it's all on me. If I go out there and lose, then it's my fault. I like that.

Obviously, you're being evaluated every single week, and you want to perform every single week. It's just going out there and doing everything possible to help the team win.

Some nights, you're tired. But I just like to go out there and help my team win and not let my team down. It's the least I can do.

The kind of leader and teammate that I was, at every stop I made, I was always honest with guys and honest with myself. I think that was the reason I grew to have the reputation I had in the league.

When something goes wrong on the field, we expect our players to take the blame, step up, and proactively assume the blame for it, even if it's not their fault. That's the way to be a good teammate.

Just imagine how fast, innovative and excellent your business will be once every single teammate - from the janitor to the executive - begins to see themselves as the CEO of their own area of responsibility.

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 pride myself on being able to get the guys lined up on the team, and being a great teammate and also doing my job.

Everyone is expecting something in each game I'm playing. I don't have to score in every game, but I want to do my best. I want to give everything for the club, for my teammates, and myself also.

You work all season to earn the trust of your teammates and the coaching staff.

I know what I do for my team and what my teammates expect of me on both ends of the floor.

Whatever team I go to, I'm going to give them everything, show them the type of character that I am because, like I said, my teammates know exactly who I am; they can vouch for me.

You'll make mistakes, but if you make mistakes by trying to do the right things, then they're mistakes that most coaches and most teammates can accept.

I get paid a bunch of money to do this, and so there's a responsibility to my teammates, every single day, to show up and be the absolute best you can be.

I hate letting my teammates down. I know I'm not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don't feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win.

I expect to push my teammates as much as I can, and I expect them to do the same with me.

My job is to play quarterback, and I'm going to do that the best way I know how, because I owe that to my teammates regardless of who is out there on the field with me.

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 love being around my teammates, and I love leading and having responsibility.