Iman Shumpert Quotes

I always feel I can play a role - just give me the time to do the preparation and I'll be it.

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.

I think I'm pretty coachable. I do what coaches ask of me.

When you get offered the captaincy, you've got to have a go. In India, where it went well, I was playing well, and anything that needed doing, I'd do it myself. When I wasn't playing well, it was tough.

I'll do whatever the coach wants me to do.

I'm wherever coach puts me.

What you don't want from a player is to walk off and say 'that's the way I play.'

But I was club captain at Leeds, club captain at Fulham. If you've got a bad attitude you're not getting those honours.

My job is to come out here and compete the best I can, get in the playbook, understand what they want from me, and the rest will take care of itself.

I want to be one of the guys, but I also want to be 'the' guy, the guy that can go out there and they can rely on in crunch time. I'm going to be the guy that they know will show up every day, every game, every play and show up on a consistently great level.

The Marine Corps is some of the best acting training you could have. Having that responsibility for people's lives, suddenly time becomes a really valuable commodity and you want to make the most of it. And for acting, you just have to do the work, just keep doing it.

The athletes are still out competing the same as a Division I team, and I think we've done a good job of creating an atmosphere where they're responsible for their actions and their play.

You obviously want the results but you must do your job in every at-bat and deal with what every situation dictates.

You've got to make sure that every body's putting in the work and you've got to have the discipline to go out there and get the job done.

I feel comfortable in a position of leadership, but that's not to say I feel complacent about it. I take it incredibly seriously.

I know that it is a huge responsibility to be the captain, the No. 10, but I like it. I like the responsibility, the pressure, and I like playing football.

I don't want the power. When a project is given to me, and I say yes, I'm gonna oblige everybody who has the power to try to make it work.

Whatever plays are called, I'm just going out there and doing my job.

I've just got to go in there and get some quality at-bats and do my job and help the team win any way I can.

You have to respect every coach and when there is a change you have to give everything you are asked for.

I just do my job; I'm out there to make plays and play football.

Whatever the team needs, I'll do.

I'm at my best when people are depending on me. If it's just on me and I don't have nothing to do, I'm going to be lazy. On the football field, it's every single day, every play, knowing that people are depending on me to make my play. That helps me elevate my game to another level.

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

Whatever my role is on each play, that's just what I have to do. I have to do my job. That's pretty much it, regardless of whether it's inside or outside.