Quotes About Teamwork

In football, there are no guarantees.

There are no guarantees in football.

Growing up in Australia and the way I was raised, my dad told me to play as a team and to be a team player. You have five guys on the court. It's easy for five guys to defend one guy. It's hard to guard five. It's just a natural thing to do.

When you play guard, you're not going to block a lot of shots. Inside, you're going to block shots.

For us to be a really good team, everyone has to guard.

When I guard LeBron, I used to always want him to shoot, but he would just make the right play. He's legendary for making the right play, and it's really hard to guard when you're a team player.

Any guard would love playing with a great big man, one who rebounds, blocks shots, and scores.

Esthetically, let's move the ball. Let's guard people. Let's fight.

You've got to be able to guard hard and then work yourself offensively to get shots.

There are so many pick and rolls in an NBA game. It's so hard to guard.

It's kind of like, I'm just a guard.

Like I've been saying the whole time I've been in the NBA: anything the coach asks me to do that I can do, I'm going to try to do. Whether it's to score the ball or guard the center, I'll do it.

I've guarded a lot of people.

If you're guarded, you drive the ball or move the ball and make a quick decision, and help someone else.

This should be a written rule: Guards should always defer to centers. I don't care how good you are, those big guys make the game so much easier for every other person on that team, and without them, everyone else needs to work twice as hard.

Just hearing somebody's voice in center field, it helps our guards out to know where they need to go, when the screen is coming, when the back door is coming, when the flare is coming. When different things like that happen and we're talking, it helps us all out in the long run.

I try to exploit things against everybody; that's part of the game: beat the guy that guards me while you're beating their team.

We had one of the best point guards in the game in Dugie Martin. He fed me for a lot of my points, and he even gave Bob Cousy a lot of trouble.

The point guards that I like are the ones that are playing like point guards.

Point guards love it when a guy can pick and pop and make a shot and make threes.

I just love playing with point guards with high Iqs.

I felt like that was an important thing for guards to trust the big fella when they give them the ball - that you can catch and finish. I think that's real big for the trust between you and your guards.

I was blessed to have a lot of good point guards throughout.

It's hard to guard when you have two point guards on the floor because you don't know who to pick up.