Ryan Leaf Quotes

I think it is rare that one player really hates another player on a team.

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?

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

It is important that it - sometimes there are clashes between team-mates. We need each other to tell the truth, and this is not always a positive.

One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other's company. I don't like discussing cricket off the field.

I've played sports pretty much my whole life, and that teaches you how to work with anyone, whether you like that person or you don't, and whether you get along with them or you don't. The circumstances don't matter. Team work is part of life.

You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.

Team sports are very important for shaping personalities. It's important that kids understand the mentality behind playing team sports and playing for one another and playing with friends.

Each director maintains a different personality. Either you get along, or you don't.

One of the things about football is, it's a relationship business.

You know when you put two great players together, you're going to have to work through some things.

There were players I shared a dressing room with who didn't like each other. You don't have to talk to each other. You just need to win matches.

We want people that fit in our locker room. As I said, it's all about teamwork.

I believe that working with good people matters because then the work environment is good. If there is a sense of respect and belief among the people you work with, that is when good work is done.

If someone can't behave with their colleagues and can't be part of the culture, it doesn't matter how good they are at what they do; they have to be asked to leave.

In high school I was on the basketball team, but the coach did something I didn't dig and the next day he looked up and saw me practising with the football team.

I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation.

I've been on plenty of sets where I have not liked the people that I work with, but you suck it up and be professional.

I think it really makes a difference when you know the people that you're working with, when you develop a relationship.

What you've got to realise is that footballers, and me in particular, have seen everything in the changing room. Everything. I've seen the manager kicking off with the players, the players kicking off with him, players fighting each other, managers fighting, everything.

You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.

If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless.

When you're on tour you definitely don't want lots of arguments. It's very important that everybody gets on because you're in close proximity a great deal of the time.

I think the outside world can learn a lot about how to act by watching a major league clubhouse. I don't think you want to do everything the same, but there's a lot of things I think people could learn from.

One thing I learned particularly at Yale was how to work with others. Having studied so long trying to master myself, the biggest challenge was learning about the other person's work.