Ben Askren Quotes

I've got great relationships with all of my teammates regardless of who it is.

Here we spent so much time together - eight months of our lives almost - and it was so great because we all got so close and that really made us not afraid to improve with each other.

Williams really does feel like a family, and I have built up very good relationships with people here; in fact, some of my best friends work for Williams. A friendly atmosphere can really help on the track as well because I feel like I can communicate freely with the team.

Julie, Mia and I just met for a couple days, doing some work but really under the guise of having fun. We do events like the Women's Sports Foundation Dinner, where we get to not only do a good thing for the community but we get to hang out with one another again.

There's a real sense of camaraderie with sitcoms.

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

Our biggest thing in the locker room is to just have fun and stay loose.

When you are playing, you play as rivals. When off the field, we are friends. I feel that's a good thing. That's the beauty of IPL.

If you know people, it's so much more fun working with them because it's like your family is back together again.

I have a very good relationship with my peers both on and off the pitch.

I always had a good relationship with all my team-mates in my career.

The great thing about the Wilburys was that none of us had to take the heat by ourselves. I was just a member of the band. Nobody felt like he was above anybody else. We had such a good time.

When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.

I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends; we're all good friends.

It's nice to have writers write nice things about you and guys on radio and TV say nice things about you, but the guy who's in the locker next to you is the one you play the game for.

Tennis is such an individual and competitive sport, but it is great being part of a team and getting to know the girls outside of tennis - even though we are all competing for the same thing!

I like my teammates.

Nothing. We're all friends and friendly. So when the cameras go down, depending on the mood or the nature of the material we're dealing with, there's usually a kind of a prevailing light attitude that's floating around.

We had a good cast and we loved each other.

You see more friendships in the league. It's not like in the '80s when you had enemies, or you couldn't stand this guy, and there were fights all the time.

I have an amazing crew, so it makes life so much easier. It's fun being around a bunch of my BFFs on the road.

Camaraderie doesn't happen by accident; developing a strong sense of trust, accountability, and togetherness around team goals requires intentional effort.

It's not like I am working with the great innovators of all time, but at the same time, they are my friends.

I can only think of about four players who I do not have anywhere from a good to a great relationship with.

I love working with Chris Carmack - he's a really, really good friend of mine.