Asdrubal Cabrera Quotes

Both players and coaches take time to understand each other. Frequent changes bring that rapport to square one.

I think it's an extremely important factor to have your team together. It goes back to having distractions. When you all stay together for a period of time you're not training people or feeling out different personalities.

I've learned several lessons over the years. First, never take yourself too seriously, or work is boring. Next, people make the difference. You can have great technology, but if it's not complemented by great people, it won't go anywhere. Finally, customers buy from people they like.

Teams are made up of a lot of components. They're made up of hunger, they're made up of desire, they're made up of chemistry, and they're made up of emotion.

It's all right buying all these good players but they've got to gel, and that takes time.

In any team sport, the best teams have consistency and chemistry.

It's not a successful captain that makes a successful team.

I think it's important for us, as a team, to know each other. Know our teammates and our coaches. To interact with them is more important than to be 'liked' by whoever on Chatrun.

It's difficult to play in a new formation and have everyone grasp it straight away.

I've been on extremely talented teams that just don't click, and I've also been on team with a little bit less talent, but they clicked, and because they clicked, they did better than other talented teams I've been on.

When you bring a lot of new players in, that is the hardest thing, getting everyone playing together.

I'm playing for the Red Sox, and I don't think there's anybody out here who's going to intentionally hurt you. So you listen to information, and you kind of filter what you like and take out what you don't.

In order to build chemistry you've got to really know one another.

Team chemistry is what really matters, your team chemistry and team toughness.

It's not always the best roster that wins, it's the best team, and sometimes that maybe doesn't jell all that well.

When you have a player like Tyus Jones, instantly chemistry is made.

Teams need the opportunity to learn about each other's capabilities and develop productive routines. So once we get the right people on the bus, let's make sure they spend some time driving together.

I've seen really, really talented teams that don't care about each other and are average, maybe above average is about as good as you're going to get.

We tend to just think about how hard it is to never have thrown to a guy. That is true, every guy has their own way of doing things and you build a rapport with guys throughout the course of the year and throughout practice and all of that.

It'll be a challenge for me to come in and fit with a team that's already good.

Of course it's always easy when you work with people that worked together, or you work with people that you worked with before, because you develop over years some sort of shorthand of communion that is always very valuable.

LeBron is the best player in our league, but some people have a hard time playing with him.

You learn to respect team chemistry. It's the fourth quarter, there's two minutes left, the shot clock is winding down, and we're like, 'What do we do?' We didn't have that flow. Chemistry comes down to repetition. It's not, 'We've played some games; we have chemistry now.'

When people ask me what I miss most about the game, it's being in the locker room and getting to know the guys. Back in those days, we had roommates. We had to talk basketball and that was a great way to understand the game itself and form those lasting relationships.

You talk all the time about being connected, being a unit, believing in each other. But if you have unnamed sources, people out there cutting you down, and then you find out it's the person calling the plays - that would be really hard to deal with, to look at him the same way.