Quotes About Teamwork

I can shoot the ball. I can make everybody comfortable out there, and I'm just going to try to help my teammates play better basketball if possible.

The Defensive Player of the Year is the guy that makes his team better. Not only gets stats - it's the guy that also has an impact on his teammates and leadership.

As a player, you model yourself after other players. Kobe takes the same approach as Michael Jordan. But I follow someone like Magic Johnson; he showed emotion, he smiled and jumped around, he was happy for his teammates. There needs to be more players like that.

I don't play for nobody else but my teammates and my family. That's it.

I just don't want to go to the All-Star game to be in the dunk contest and go home. I want to be there competing in the game with a couple of my teammates.

The more you're at Alabama, you grow as a person and as a player learning from great coaches and great men and just growing with your teammates.

I am very confident in my game, whether I'm shooting, driving or creating for my teammates.

Anybody who has ever watched me knows that I get my teammates involved, that I make them better.

I feel like I'm a guy who consistently makes the right play and the right reads offensively and that helps my teammates.

Go out there and play hard, understand your teammates, understand the other team's gameplan, understand your coaches' philosophies and what they want you to do. There's nothing better than showing, though; more than talking, you have to make your actions speak louder than words.

I love my teammates and I'll go out there and play for them, and that's who I play for every night.

I know with Coach Messina I started to understand where my teammates were, how to use them and make them better for the benefit of the team.

I know my teammates got me, and they know I've got them.

Kobe Bryant demands his teammates to be the best every night, and he's not afraid to challenge them. He's not afraid to challenge them publicly, he's not afraid to challenge them in the locker room, and that's what you need from a leader.

My teammates, they kid me all the time. My nickname is the doctor or the president in the locker room.

When I am aggressive, I think that is going to help my teammates.

I feel like I gotta get out of myself sometimes. I think I'm in my own world sometimes. I don't like to let other people come into my own world. Especially with my teammates, my coaches, I should be doing that. The important people that need to know how I'm feeling. I can do a better job of telling them exactly how I feel.

That's all I seek every practice and every game, to progress in some way, be coachable and try to be the best I can be for my teammates.

To win, you have to involve all your teammates because if not, it is too difficult. One guy, it is impossible to win something big.

Sometimes you play better with some teammates than others.

I'm not going to take too much credit for what's happened in my life. When we're playing, the things I do are because of my teammates. So I'm not going to take too much credit.

If I could help the pitcher as much as I can, or I could save three to five errors a year with my defense, then that's just a big help for my teammates.

When I do play I try to be the best to help my teammates.

I always think how I should play to make the most out of my teammates' abilities and their established styles.