Phil Jones Quotes

With me, and people know this, since I've gotten to the league the first day I've always been about trying to help my team win, trying to play for my teammates. That's just the way that I am.

I will always do what's best for the football team.

I always try to give everything for the team, whether I start or don't start.

People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.

I will play with anyone for my country. I may have my personal preferences, but such preferences have never come in the way of playing for India.

The national team requires a work commitment but also a personal one as well. To lead your country is something very different.

You can say what you want about Carlos Tevez, but when he plays, he plays to win, and he plays for his team-mates.

I'd rather be remembered as a player who came on and impacted a lot of games for England. If I ever take a selfish thought-process of, 'I'm doing this for myself,' then things will be seriously wrong.

As long as my players show respect - not for me, but for the locker room, their team-mates and the club - I will tear my heart out of my chest and let them play keepy-uppy with it.

Whatever is in the best interest of the Lakers, that's what's important to me.

If the team needs to score, I'm going to score. If the team needs me to rebound, I'm going to rebound. Play defense, I play defense.

At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.

I want to show my team I'm for the team. I want them to see I'm in it for them, not for me.

I don't measure my performances in goals any more, it's more important that my team-mates see how hard I work for them.

The team's success always came first for me.

I just go out there and try to help my team win no matter what.

I'd rather not, but if it will help the club, I'll do it. My ankle injury still bothers me sometimes.

Ask not what the role can do for you; ask what you can do for the role.

It's nice to put your hand up and do the big things the team requires of you.

I've always been an unselfish guy, and that's the only way I know how to play on the court and I try to play to the maximum of my ability - not only for myself but for my teammates.

In the military, I learned that 'leadership' means raising your hand and volunteering for the tough, important assignments.

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.

The team needs me out there on the field. And sometimes you allow that to jeopardize yourself, but that's just the nature of the world.

I had team-mates who didn't care if the team won or lost because they were not playing. I never wanted to be like that.

My whole obligation was to West Indies cricket. As I have always said, I have never made a run for me. Records meant nothing. The team was important.