Top 75 Teammate Quotes

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.

I don’t have any concerns fighting a teammate. It’s a sport. To me, it doesn’t really mean anything.

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.

That’s always the No. 1 goal, just be a good teammate and work hard.

When I first came into the league, my first three, four years, I had a teammate from college win a Super Bowl.

I’m going to come in and be a hard worker, and I’m going to try to lead by example and be a great teammate, and everything on the field is going to take care of itself.

There are always a lot of guys that have potential, but to make it a certain amount of years in the league, it takes more than just potential. You have to be professional, you have to be a good teammate, do things the right way. So now, any chance I get to talk to younger guys, I do it.

In football, in any sport, communication is really key. So if you want to be a great teammate, a great team and a great player, then communication is very important.

I’m just trying to be the best teammate I can possibly be.

I think my mindset is probably the most important thing. Being able to stay positive through whatever injury I had or whatever situation I was going through and focusing on the best player and the best teammate I can be.

People don’t understand how it feels to be with a guy who you call your teammate and you’re with more than your family during the course of a season.

A point makes you happy; an assist makes you and your teammate happy. An assist makes two people happy.

You try to get the best shots possible, try to find the open teammate.

People might call me a liar for this, but I want a fast teammate, I think for two reasons: it’s always going to get more out of yourself, and it’s always going to be a more true evaluation of where you stand.

I never thought I would be in a situation where I would have to go into the stands and actually help my teammate fight fans. But at that time, there’s no way I could have lived with myself knowing that my teammate is in the stands fighting and I’m not helping him.

I take my teammate’s praises very well. It means I am doing my job well.

I think it was everything about him: his work ethic, his desire to be the best football player that he can be. He just woke up and he was just Ray Lewis, so he did pretty much everything great. He was a great teammate.

If I can help my teammate or teammates play at a level they’ve never played at before, then it doesn’t even matter so much how I play.

The things that Dirk has done for this league and for the Dallas Mavericks, it’s unbelievable. And Coach Kidd was a teammate of Dirk, so for Jason Kidd to compare me with Dirk Nowitzki, it feels nice. It’s a nice compliment.

One of the things that are consistent amongst all great leaders is they’re a great teammate that is invested in the guys around them to raise the level of play. You do that by believing in guys and caring about them.

My teammate in college, Melissa Jones, lost her sight in one eye. Hers wasn’t a hit to the eye; she fell and hit her head on the court, and then someone fell on her.

Chris Boardman was my first teammate and my first roommate. I saw him finish his career with an hour record and thought, ‘Yeh, what a way to go out!’

I think that’s the ultimate sign of a teammate and respect is that they compete against one another so hard at practice that here’s a chance to share some knowledge inside. It takes some humility to do that.

And as far as being a leader, I’ve always kind of been a bit of a quiet leader for the most part and tend to just lead by work ethic and example and those types of things and just be a good teammate and try to love everyone the same way.

I was a great teammate and I love all my teammates, and then No. 2 is I’m a champion. So I don’t care if anyone says I suck, because I don’t.

I had a teammate whose motto was, ‘If I make a million dollars, I must spend a million dollars.’ I was like, ‘If I make a million dollars, I’m hoping I can keep a million dollars.’

In the ideal world, if I was perfect, I’d be able to beat every teammate that I have, in every race.

I ensure I am focused throughout the game, whether that is making a chance for myself or receiving the ball from a teammate to score.

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.

I think every time I step on the court, I’m just preparing myself to be the best player I can be, be the best teammate I can be as well.

I think I’m a great teammate.

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.

If you’ve got a teammate around you, you know sometimes they’re going to score, sometimes you’re going to pass the ball or you won’t win games – unless you’re Kobe Bryant or LeBron James. And even then, they need a good team around them.

I’ve never had a teammate competing with me my whole life.

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.

It’s always tough to see a teammate go unless he is willing to go.

Be on time, work hard every day, try to help your teammate, look for the team first. If you do that, everybody‘s gonna respect you.

I’m Chief Executive Officer at Art of the Olympians Museum in Fort Myers, Florida, which was founded by my Mexico City teammate Al Oerter and his wife Cathy in 2005. It shows that Olympians can have another life; we have got art from more than 100 Olympians.

I’m just going to be a sponge. I’m going to be a good teammate. I’m going to be a hard worker, earn my respect first.

It’s always exciting to have a guy you played with in college as a teammate in the NFL.

I hope to make an impact not only on the field, in the community, in the locker room. But on the field, catching the ball, returns, running the ball, getting the tough gritty yards, being able to make those special plays and being a great teammate, that’s what I hope to have.

I love scoring for the fans, for the team, for myself. That’s not to say that I won’t pass if I see a teammate in a better scoring position. But I like to score.

You talk about Shaq, I would put Tim Duncan in that same category. Mr. Fundamental, just kept things simple. He is a great teammate, a great player, and a great person. When you have those ingredients in a champion, you just want to be a part of that and have an opportunity to play with him.

I get a feeling about where a teammate is going to be. A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.

I will go off at times. Overall, I’m a pretty good teammate.

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.

I like to try to learn from my past and be a better person because of it. Better player, better teammate. Better everything.

I take pride in being a great teammate.

When they say I’m a bad teammate and that I got a coach fired, that irritates the hell out of me. The biggest thing for me is to always have respect for my teammates. And then the whole Westphal thing – the man got himself fired. He was losing before I got here.

There will never be another Mariano Rivera. He was a friend and a champion of a teammate.

It’s that preparation that goes into each week. We have a term: ‘Trust your training, trust your teammate, and trust yourself.’

When something goes wrong on the field, we expect our players to take the blame, step up, and proactively assume the blame for it, even if it’s not their fault. That’s the way to be a good teammate.

My role is what I make it to be. That’s just playing the right way, being a good teammate and hopefully everything else takes care of itself.

My main focus was to be a great teammate. That’s all I hoped to accomplish. I don’t really care about legacies.

I just want to be in the middle of the order, playing solid defense, playing every day, being competitive and earning that my manager, the coaching staff, the front office, my teammates have faith that I’m going to be a helpful teammate. I want to do that until the very end.

I’m not the best in the kitchen, but if someone gives me something to do, I can do it. I’m a good teammate. Come Thanksgiving time, I kind of just do what my mom tells me to.

One of my favorite parts of this game is being a teammate.

My best teammate was Roberto Carlos.

Lionel Messi is an excellent teammate, he’s a fantastic guy. We lived through a lot together, a lot of games, a lot of goals – he knows me well.

I was a team captain, I was the guy for the first couple years. And then all of the sudden I was just the backup. It wasn’t easy. I think it would be easy to bow my head and feel sorry for myself, but I knew as a captain I had to be a great teammate.

I think that’s what being a good teammate is, and I think that’s what creates a good environment for the locker room. I think if guys are connected, it’s easier to know where they’re coming from when they get upset or they’re down on themselves.

I’ve been a good player my whole life and expect to continue to work hard and continue to do everything that I have done and try not to take any steps back. Try to stay the course and be the best player and the best teammate and hopefully the best leader I can be, and play as well as I can.

I work hard every day not only to be a success on the football field and a credit to my team – but to be a good husband, father, son, grandson, teammate – to be the kind of man that is as respected as Walter Payton was.

It is always painful when you see a teammate leaving. You create a bond, and you have been together for so long, and you are going to do your best with your guys.

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.

Yuzvendra Chahal, India‘s leg-spinner, is another IPL teammate. He’s also a great guy and very funny.

I think when you’ve played in a league for as long as I have, it would be foolish for a coach not to ask a player with that kind of knowledge about other players. A lot of this goes beyond the court. Are they a good teammate? Are they good in the locker room? What’s their attitude like? Do they work hard?

I just get this reputation of being a bad teammate, but no one would come in and tell me why.

It’s never easy to watch. It’s never great to see your friend or teammate put himself through hell.

Danieal Manning is a friend of mine, he was a teammate for five or six years, and that’s the way it is.

I know my teammates better than opponents know them. If I can see my teammate in one moment, I know where he’ll be in the next moment. I don’t need to see him again.

I love to play football. And I think anybody that’s ever been my teammate or I’ve been theirs understands how much I love that.

I am eager to continue to put in the work to improve and be the best teammate I can.

I have not always been painted in the best picture of being the best teammate. But if you ask my actual teammates, not maybe the media and the other people that don’t like me, if you ask my actual teammates, they will always say that I’ve been that guy.

The kind of leader and teammate that I was, at every stop I made, I was always honest with guys and honest with myself. I think that was the reason I grew to have the reputation I had in the league.