John McGinn Quotes

If you start chasing around trying to get steals for your own benefit, then you really put your defense at a disadvantage. It's not a big thing for me; if it happens, great.

I think everyone would like to have that one guy who gets triple-teamed, and he throws it to an open guy, but there aren't many of those guys around.

If you played the game the right way, played the game for the team, good things would happen.

What is important is to have a positive intent right from the start, and positive intent doesn't always mean looking for the big shots. Positive intention when it comes to defending a ball or looking for a single.

We need everyone, every game. So I'm not going to put myself in the position to hurt my team or my teammates.

It's not all about the figures. It's about how you play for the team, how you help your colleagues, how you work defensively.

When I've watched teams that play with five at the back and wing-backs, I've looked at their starting positions and positions out of possession because that comes a little bit more unnaturally to me.

If it's a shot for me, if I can make a play, create for someone else, I'll do that. A lot of times you run a play, everybody's watching, everybody's locked in, everybody's pulling over, and it just makes the game tougher for me.

If I can't help the team offensively, I can help defensively.

A lot of folks would say that if I had been a little more selfish with my bat, I would have had a much bigger average. But that doesn't worry me.

If I hit a bad punt, and some guys don't make a tackle, and I have to make a tackle for them, that's my opportunity to step up for my teammates.

There's times where I could take all the shots every time I touch the ball, but that's not me. I just play a team game and just take open shots.

I play the way it's most effective for the team. They used to say I hit the ball too many times.

When teams are really out on me, I'm trying to drag them out as much as possible so my teammates can make plays.

Obviously, I try to play the game in the way that I can help the team. I know I play a little bit more defensively now, more in the role as a team player, but I think I'm doing really well in that.

In New England, I learned so much about football. I always thought I was a smart player, even though I never thought about anything but the six inches in front of my face. In New England, I was forced to learn so many schematic concepts.

Where I'm from, we don't take shots over two guys. When someone is doubled, it's the next man's job to take the shot and make it.

Playing four years of college, when you're playing for someone other than yourself, I think it makes it a lot more fun.

Scouting is important. You just want to know whom you are playing against and how to play them well within the team's defense.

The defensive phase is about the team, so it's about balance.

The last thing you want as a striker is the opposing team putting all 10 players behind the ball.

In the past, I played No. 10 and No. 9 sometimes when I had to help the team. I can play there and help my team-mates and my team; it's not important where I play. It's important to win the game.

Really what we've done is establish a tradition in Carolina of playing defense.

I'm not going to put my team in any situation where I go 0-for-5 because I want to play and be a hero.

You don't want your opponent to score. You don't want your guy to score and once you get better at it, you get used to it, it becomes a mindset. You just try to do it every game.