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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. -- Larry Bird
I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot. -- Kobe Bryant
Being a good teammate is when you try to sprint down a ball that everyone thinks is going out of bounds. But you go after it anyways and you get it. -- Mia Hamm
I've had teammates I didn't get along with, who hasn't? I've never had a teammate call me a bad guy, while he was my teammate, and if he did when I was gone what kind of teammate was he anyway? -- Curt Schilling
I enjoyed being a teammate of Deion Sanders. He brings different elements to the game that many people would not even realize, and to watch and witness a superior talent like him and watch him prepare and train, and study the game is truly amazing. -- Emmitt Smith
With an enthusiastic team you can achieve almost anything. -- Tahir Shah
It's probably a twelve-day. He needs two days to wake up. -- Michael Jordan
We're not winning because of talent. We're just beating bad teams. -- Michael Jordan
It doesn't matter what any of my teammates have said about me. -- Terrell Owens
I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down. -- Mia Hamm
Only by binding together as a single force will we remain strong and unconquerable. -- Chris Bradford
To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one another. -- John C. Maxwell
If you pass the ball to Bill Cartwright, you'll never get the ball from me. -- Michael Jordan
I hate being out there with those garbage men. They don't get you the ball. -- Michael Jordan
I'm looking for players who make their teammates better. You do that with enthusiasm and passion. -- Mike Krzyzewski
Gaylord Perry and Willie McCovey should know each other like a book. They've been ex-teammates for years now. -- Jerry Coleman
You need to work as hard to be a great teammate as you do to be a great player -- Jon Gordon
If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. -- Larry Bird
My own little rule was two for one. If one of my teammates got knocked down, then I knocked down two on the other team. -- Don Drysdale
You're an idiot. You've screwed up every play we ever ran. You're too stupid to even remember the plays. We ought to get rid of you. -- Michael Jordan
I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down. -- Mia Hamm
People do not get married planning to divorce. Divorce is the result of a lack of preparation for marriage and the failure to learn the skills of working together as teammates in an intimate relationship. -- Gary Chapman
We're beating a lot of poor teams. So what? We won a lot of games last year, too. Will Horace and Bill still be playing at this level in the playoffs...Can Pip keep it up? -- Michael Jordan
Commitment is a big part of what I am and what I believe. How committed are you to winning? How committed are you to being a good friend? To being trustworthy? To being successful? How committed are you to being a good father, a good teammate, a good role model? There's that moment every morning when you look in the mirror: Are you committed, or are you not? -- LeBron James
I had three rules for my players: No profanity. Don't criticize a teammate. Never be late. -- John Wooden
If you're in the best team in the world, you or your teammate have to win. -- Fernando Alonso
There will never be another Mariano Rivera. He was a friend and a champion of a teammate. -- Jorge Posada
We all wore a 21 patch that one season as a silent tribute to our deceased teammate Roberto. -- Willie Stargell
You shouldn't just work on your jump shot. You should work on being a better person, a better teammate, and a better friend. -- Sue Wicks
I get a feeling about where a teammate is going to be. A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking. -- Wayne Gretzky
A good teammate is someone willing to get outside of personal thoughts and emotions, a friend who tries to understand, appreciate, and encourage other members of the team. -- Don Kardong
The thing is, I don't do these things for recognition, being a good teammate, being a positive member of the community. I do them because those things make me whole and complete. -- Dwyane Wade
Just imagine how fast, innovative and excellent your business will be once every single teammate - from the janitor to the executive - begins to see themselves as the CEO of their own area of responsibility. -- Robin S. Sharma
You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle. I feel very much like a father sometimes but sometimes I feel like a teammate. -- Dusty Baker
There will never be another Mariano Rivera. He was a friend and a champion of a teammate. He really cared about the game of baseball, the way it was played, and whatever it took to win that night. -- Jorge Posada
I will respect the limits of my experience but that won't stop me from trying to lead by example of my work. Being a good teammate and picking them up on and off the field is a simple goal of mine. -- Anthony Rizzo
I really do try hard to be a good teammate. I can't run very fast, but I try to always run hard. I may strike out a lot, but I try to walk to set up the guys who are hitting after me. -- Jim Thome
I want to see a player on the football field. I want to see what kind of teammate they are, what kind of leadership qualities they have. I want to see how aggressive they are, how much fun they have playing the game. -- Roy Clark
I think that my career speaks for itself and shows the type of player I am. I have never had a teammate who didn't enjoy playing with me. There are always going to be skeptics, but chemistry will definitely not be an issue. -- Chris Webber
Any teammate of mine that had a kid and a boy that was capable of playing baseball, I think I set a terrific example of 'Don't do this' and 'Don't do that.' And that's one of the things that I'm most proud of. -- Bob Uecker
I never set out to intentionally hurt any player and never enticed any teammate to intentionally hurt another player. I also never put any money into a bounty pool or helped to create a bounty pool intended to pay out money for injuring other players. -- Jonathan Vilma
I was also very lucky to be a teammate of two of the greatest players to have ever played the game. I learned very early on by playing for Frank Robinson and with Henry Aaron that even the greatest players in the game were just one of the guys. -- Robin Yount
I remember Simon O'Donnell being struck with cancer during Australia's 1987 World Cup campaign. I know very well what it is like to have a teammate who has been struck with a potentially fatal disease. He fought through: managed to get himself back to 100% fitness and back to playing again. -- Tom Moody
What do you call a co-worker these days? Neither teammate nor confederate will do, and partner is too legalistic. The answer brought from academia to the political world by Henry Kissinger and now bandied in the boardroom is colleague. It has a nice upper-egalitarian feel, related to the good fellowship of collegial. -- William Safire
My game is really played above time. I don't say that like I'm saying I'm ahead of my time. I'm saying, like, if I'm on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I've thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that's the right place to go to. -- LeBron James
1. Be on time. 2. Never criticize a teammate. 3. Never use profanity. -- John Wooden
I want to be known as the best teammate ever. -- Kevin Garnett
I've never had a teammate competing with me my whole life. -- Shawn Johnson
Tim Tebow is a great guy, but he wasn't a good teammate. -- Brady Quinn
I know who I am and what kind of teammate I've always been. -- Dwight Howard
What type of teammates do you want to play with? Be that teammate yourself -- John Calipari
I simply want to be remembered as a great competitor and a great teammate. -- Steve Nash
How good can we expect to be if our best player is not our best teammate -- Brad Stevens
He represented the Twins , but I think everyone in baseball felt like they were a teammate of Kirby Puckett. -- Jim Leyland
When your teammate looks you in the eye and holds you accountable, that's the greatest kind of leadership there is -- Doug Collins
Omg. My long time teammate on the Nadadores and team USA, Fran Crippen, passed away today while racing in Dubai. -- Chloe Sutton
I just want to show Atalanta who I really am and show my teammates what kind of teammate I am. -- Dwight Howard
You have a choice to make when you're not playing. Either you're invested and a great teammate, or your not -- Brad Stevens
When things are said and done, I always want to be remembered as a great teammate and a great player. -- Joe Mauer
A good teammate will correct somebody when they're doing something wrong. A friend might not say anything, a good teammate does. -- Scott Frost
The greatest compliment to any player is he is a great teammate. We can't all be great players, but we can all be great teammates -- Jay Bilas
This sport is just crazy. Your worst enemy in college is your teammate and friend when you get to the NBA. Who would have thought it? -- Gilbert Arenas
Well, it used to be Kobe Bryant...the second best all time...now, I have a new favorite player to play against...my former teammate, LeBron James. -- Dwyane Wade
I changed up everything around me. I hold myself more accountable in certain situations. I try to be a better man, a better father, a better teammate. -- Dwight Howard
My job is to be the best teammate I can be, push these guys to the limit every day, make sure that I'm being the right type of leader. -- Dwight Howard
Whenever you're working towards something greater than yourself, it's almost a selflessness that the Lord delights in when you're serving your teammate or your friend or your sister in Christ. -- Tobin Heath
If I come to work every day and do my job, work as hard as I can, be a great teammate, the rest of that stuff will take care of itself. -- Kevin Durant
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In 2009, I didn't like that Yamaha signed such a young and competitive teammate [Jorge Lorenzo]. But now everything is different. We are more mature. Everyone knows his role and position. Things are clear. -- Valentino Rossi
When Grandma Mazur is talking about the reason for the improved play of her 91-year-old bowling teammate, she said: "She's doing better now that we got her the longer tubing to her oxygen tank. -- Janet Evanovich

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