Quotes About Teamwork

Joe Prunty will take over, and he will run the team. But nobody gets out of their lane. Joe will still be offense, and Sweeney will still be defense.

I can play in any offense and play off any player.

People watch the points, they watch the highlights. But the defense I think helps the offense.

I feel like the more carries I get, the more flow I get and just keep it rolling with me and the whole offense.

I've been on some really good teams, but we weren't able to get over the hump. It's offense, defense and special teams, and then the ball has to go your way.

I think there's a lot that goes into an offense, obviously.

To be really honest, I do not mind whether it is offense or defense. I just like being in on plays and doing what needs to be done to help us win.

Defense doesn't sell as much as offense.

We have to let our defense dictate our offense.

A lot of the better offenses sacrifice defense to be a good offense and I'm not interested in doing that.

As long as we are all incorporated within offense and everybody's eating, we're good.

I'm never going to sub-contract out jobs for offense and defense. I'm always going to hire people I believe in - and are going to do things our way, that are going to believe in process, that are going to be part of a program.

I was letting the lack of touches on offense really affect my defense.

I always try to play hard as possible to help my team - it doesn't matter if it's on defense or offense. I would say when I was young I was playing like that, too.

Jay Cutler is a first-round pick, had a great arm, etc. It's just - he's offense, I'm defense. We didn't get a chance to interact as much as we should have, maybe.

I do whatever the team needs to do on offense or defense, whatever it is to win. And I'm a competitor.

At the three, you can kind of float around. At the four, it's not as much freedom on offense.

It's great knowing going into the week that you have a guy like Peyton Manning that's going to throw you the ball. You know that during the week, he's working on different things that's going to help our offense, stuff that makes you get better.

I think you want to play complementary football - offense, defense, special teams.

When you have an open shot, it's an open shot and it's not about your role or the offense.

It's like basketball - when players come onto a new team they've got to get used to the scheme and how they run the offense. Same with us in baseball. We've got to get used to each other on defense and trust each other and communicate.

When I do defensive work well it always helps my offensive game.

I love offensive coaches.

I was an offensive defenseman. I was up the ice as much as I was back.