Quotes About Teamwork

I grew up as a point guard, and as a point guard you learn how to navigate situations.

You don't want to be the selfish point guard. You want to be the guy that gets everybody open, that makes plays, and see the ball move before it goes in.

Before I got big, I was playing point guard, so I'm kinda like a pass-first person. Some people tell me I should be more selfish, but that's not me.

I want to make sure the other point guard can't start his offense until 12 or 13 seconds. Then I've put my team in position to defend just one pick-and-roll and one pass.

I don't like Derrick Rose, he'd rather score than distribute. That's not who I want as my point guard.

As a point guard, you don't really have to score. The only time you have to score is when you have to score.

The point guard is the most important position on the court. They often have to be the best player, not by choice but because that's what the game demands as far as all the thinking you have to do and picking and choosing when to score or pass, things like that.

There's always a good point guard in this league.

I play a certain way and played like that for a while. Maybe you want a point guard to shoot 20 times, I like more to pass the ball and do my job running the team.

I'll try to help everybody. That's what I try to do as a point guard.

I'm not going to be the guy that says, 'I'm the new point guard, look at me, look at me, put me on billboards and sell my jersey.' I'm not going to be him. I'm going to do my job.

Coach Kidd has taught me a lot just from the point guard position.

I think a lot of the time, when things were going wrong, I would get blamed for things because I was the point guard.

Being a point guard in this league, you have to balance out people - the emotions and stuff like that.

For me, as a point guard, you have to construct everything. If you make everybody happy, you are going to be happy.

It's good to know you have a pass-first point guard who will make the right plays.

If you're not a scoring point guard, people don't think of you as highly. They don't think of you as the type that's going to make an impact in college because you're not trying to score 20 points a game. You're more trying to get 10 assists.

As a point guard, I'm a coach on the floor. I know that.

I'm a playmaking guard, a pass-first point guard.

The only way to conduct an effective collaboration is to debate the things upon which you disagree. If one doesn't manage to bring the other around to his point of view, then whichever collaborator feels the most passionate about the thing being debated ought to get his way.

If you have somebody who's brilliant and highly creative with a different point of view than you have, and a very different intellectual background, great things can happen.

In Naples, I was very lucky to find my players adapted to my way of football. They were strong as players and strong from a human point of view.

I like to be close to the players and listen to what they've got to say and feel. Then I make decisions from a coach's point of view, thinking about what's best for the team.

Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing.