Vlade Divac Quotes

I try to give everything for my team.

I try to do what I can to help the team.

What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back; you have to be a kind of team going through life.

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.

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.

Everybody knows I am a team player.

Football is about the team, and every player is ready to help the team.

The bottom line is, I want us to rebound, defend, share the ball, play hard. That's all. Now if you can't do that, if that's not important enough to you, it's not on me.

If the team needs you, you need to sacrifice.

My main goal is to help the team as much as possible anyway I can. If they need me to shoot the three, I'll shoot the three. If they need me to run the floor and block shots, I'll do that also.

You do anything you can for your team.

I think we're all pros. If we go out there and just play basketball the right way, everything is gonna work itself out.

I don't measure my performances in goals any more, it's more important that my team-mates see how hard I work for them.

One of the first lessons I learned in football is that it takes a team to win a game.

I just wanted to work, build a relationship with my teammates, and earn their trust.

Teamwork. That's the biggest lesson you can learn from competing in NCAA gymnastics. Everyone just has to work together, you have to trust in everyone, and everyone has to push you to become the gymnast you want to be.

You work all season to earn the trust of your teammates and the coaching staff.

As coaches say, it's about finding your role. We're coming together as a team.

I'm always going to be passionate about the guys we have in the locker room because they've always been OK with me - they've always done right by me - so I have no problem playing with them, going out there and sweating, bleeding, and winning with them.

I think it's important to remember that you go into something like marriage knowing that you don't know very much about it at all. But I do look at the marriage of my mother and stepdad, and what makes it work for them is that it's a team effort.

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

Basketball is my passion, and I love it, and I love to see my players succeed. I'm here for them and my children. That's my passion.

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 think that from the time you start playing sports as a child you see that your responsibility to your team is to play the best that you can play as an individual... and yet, not take anything away from being part of a team.

I've given everything I can possible to the game, on and off the field.