Ricky Ponting Quotes

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

That's one of my jobs, just trying to do what I can to help this team out as much as possible.

Ask not what the role can do for you; ask what you can do for the role.

At the end of the day, I want to help my team out as much as possible in any way I can.

I'm trying to do whatever it takes to help my team.

I'm just ready to do whatever my team needs me to do. I'm just going to be prepared and ready to go out there and do my role, and do whatever my team needs me to do to win games.

I just want to go out there and just be that player that my team needs me to be, whatever they need me to do.

I really want be of great value for the team.

In the military, I learned that 'leadership' means raising your hand and volunteering for the tough, important assignments.

I certainly do not want to be remembered as a good captain who perhaps didn't contribute with the bat as much as he might have done.

Whatever the team needs, I'll do.

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

My individual role is to take the innings as deep as I can and perform in a way that benefits the team most.

My role is to go out there and help the team in any way possible.

If the team needs you, you need to sacrifice.

I want to try to execute my role to help the team in the best way possible.

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.

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.

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.

I always try to give everything for the team, whether I start or don't start.

I always want to do whatever it takes - whatever I possibly can - to help my team-mates on the pitch.

Whenever I have the opportunity to come on, I try to do my best for the coach, and I try to help the team.

I like to always lead from the front and set an example for whoever is playing with me or around me. I like taking responsibilities. That is my natural thing.

I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. That's what I try to do.

I am not going to be the guy who's not pulling his weight.