Chris Mullin Quotes

To be successful in football, you have to do things that put the team first. Everyone has to play their role, and if they don't do it, you're not going to win.

The word that best sums up this team is sacrifice.

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.

You have to buy into what the team is doing and get lost in that process. When you make it about yourself, that's when you can start to press a little bit.

I just focus on what the team needs me to do to win.

Who I am is a guy who's going to do whatever the team needs.

My team at Pittsburgh is the greatest example of unselfishness and giving of oneself. They bought into that, and it's brought those kids championships, and it's brought all those kids so much glory.

I never considered myself to be a star - only a forward working for the team.

I got a lot of the greatest values in life from playing sports, from playing football - teamwork, sportsmanship, my work ethic, resiliency, dedication - I got it all by being on a team.

Most of the time when you're going for a championship, unless you have guys who are willing to sacrifice, you're not going to win it.

You've got to want to play defence. Nobody really wants to play defence. It's boring. It sucks. You don't get the flashiness, the scores, the dunks. But you've got to have it.

I'm a team player who needs to work a lot and sacrifice myself for the success of the group.

Players need to come in and not take the opportunity for granted and really work hard at the game and make sure it's a team game, it's not a selfish thing. If players have those qualities - they work hard, they're selfless, they put the team before them - I have no issues with them.

That's what you want... you work hard, you want your guys to, you know, work the same way you work, and it all helps the team.

I'm a team player. I will do anything for the team.

When you do what you're supposed to do and don't complain much, I think the fans, media, players and front office appreciate and respect that.

Keep doing what you have to do to help the team out.

When it comes down to it, I always played hard for my teammates and I played hard for my coaches no matter who it was, ownership.

The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.

I'm always interested in working with people who are good team players - that are selfless that way in their interests and dedication to the project.

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

The thing a player has to ask himself: 'Do you want to choose winning over standing out?' Dwyane Wade made that choice, and I don't think he gets enough credit.

There can be a lot done if you are not so particular about who gets credit for it.

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

People here were willing to assume minor roles for the sake of a common enterprise. This spirit of teamwork must have been characteristic of the 19th century and was what made great industrial empires possible.]