Charles Mingus Quotes

You cannot just switch football on and off; it's intense. There were times when I probably shouldn't have got involved in certain things and said certain things, but you feel that sometimes you have to stand up for what you believe. Maybe the supporters looked to me to stand up as well.

I will do what my team wants me to do and justify my place in the side.

I want to play every game, as does every player. But sometimes, you just have to listen to the manager.

I don't change the way that I play. I love the game of basketball, man. I ride with these guys in this locker room. They know that. If I've got something to say to them, I will say it. You may not like the way that it comes across. That's fine. But that's who I am.

It was my task to train hard and respect my team-mates all the time I wasn't playing or was on the bench, so I hope I did that.

I loved playing for Coach Ambrose, and I definitely love playing for Coach Wright.

We're here for one reason, and that's to win ballgames. You're going to have your feuding in there. But that is not going to carry over to the field. That's just the way it is.

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

I think there's nothing that's not important. Everything you do - from how you connect with the guys in the locker room, to how you learn, to how you play on the field - everything's important; everything goes with the position.

If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.

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

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.

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.

The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.

There's a place in my heart for every team I played on.

I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train men hard and to do things the right way, just as a football team must train.

Loyalty and communication are always rewarded in sports.

Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.

The Rooneys are very classy. They're very deliberate with their decision-making. Once you're part of that family, Steeler nation, they treat you with respect. You don't have a lot of rambunctious players running around.

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.

May the spirit of devotion to duty which inspires us always dominate this Committee's conferences!

Anytime you're playing basketball, and you have a coach who you have to respect, you've got to be very disciplined.

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 always thought being a gamer and someone who had a sense of responsibility to the game and to my teammates was the honorable thing.