Quotes About Teamwork

Playing with Michael Jordan would be a great opportunity for me. I would have someone around I could learn a lot from. I look up to him as a player and as a person, and that would make me a better player and person.

Michael Jordan was that guy - he was Michael Jordan. So whatever he did, we followed.

I wanted to go the NBA and win a championship because I've never seen a grown man cry the way Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan cried when they won a championship.

I was very lucky to be in the right place at the right time and play with Michael Jordan.

I loved working with Michelle Fairley.

I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan making Super-8 movies.

You cannot treat someone differently just because they have become captain. We still took the mickey out of Alastair Cook when he was in charge. You have to treat them first and foremost as a team-mate.

Microsoft's culture is very strong.

It's always a tough process when you're always the best guy on your team, in high school, in middle school, AAU and things like that. Then you come together, and you may not be the best guy on the team. You may have to adjust. You may not be a go to scorer. You may have to be a picker. You may have to be a rebounder.

Starting in middle school, I would play on two or three baseball teams at the same time, because that's just how things worked in south Florida. I would practice six or seven days each week. I honestly don't know how my parents did it, but my dad always found a way to make it to each and every game.

The guys who play in midfield and up front are the ones who decide games.

You don't need only your strikers. You need your defenders to be on top of their game. You need a midfield to work hard and track back, and I suppose you need a goalkeeper who makes saves once in a while.

Mario Mandzukic works so hard for his team. He's not only a No. 9 but also runs behind the defenders and drops into midfield.

I think that Sarri's formation and playing with a midfield three have been fundamental for me.

All coaches now look for forwards who not only score goals but also run back and help in midfield.

I have to play with discipline in midfield.

As a holding midfield player, you want movement and to play between the lines.

I have been playing box-to-box more for Everton as a two, so I have felt comfortable in that position, but anywhere across the midfield I can play.

When the manager asks me to play somewhere, I play there. But my best position is midfield.

You cannot play the position Kroos plays in defensive midfield besides Luka Modric better than he does.

For me it's best to play midfield but if the team needs it, I can play anywhere.

Playing left midfield a lot at West Ham has been tough but the manager has put me there and I've got every faith in what he's doing.

A lot of times, sets are not such fun places to be, and especially television sets, because everybody works so hard, and everybody's kind of grumbling about getting up at 3 o'clock in the morning and not getting home until midnight.

I was my high school football team's captain, not because I was the guy who scored the most touchdowns, but the guy who was in the midst of every play.