Jon Lester Quotes

It's fun to be there with the guys, to practice with them, arrange the balls, do this, do that, but when you play you can get some of this nervousness out of your system.

All 15 guys on every team want to play all 48 minutes. It's just kind of the way that every season goes.

Sport used to play a phenomenal part in my life, because I used to play a lot of county sport, a lot of sport for my school. I love team sports. Talk about being with the boys. I love the camaraderie. That's why I like acting.

I don't miss playing football, but I do miss going into the dressing room every day and having a laugh.

In front of the world, all of a sudden I'm a great athlete and I'm put into an environment with 25 other women and I'm expected to go to team meals, team functions.

Sports teaches you to understand the meaning of a team. You need to be able to work with everybody; you don't have to be their best friend. You can experience the fun of competition and driving toward a common goal without pushing to bond in some major way with each individual on a project.

You cannot treat someone differently just because they have become captain. We still took the mickey out of Alastair Cook when he was in charge. You have to treat them first and foremost as a team-mate.

The beauty of football is that it's about 11, and another five, at least, are sitting outside. You cannot get competitive.

Having my dad play for the Falcons, what it did was really to expose me to a whole bunch of other elite-level athletes, which I think gives me an advantage and allowed me to understand what goes into sports. It is more than going out onto the field and going out onto the ice and competing.

You want to go to where there's competition, with guys surrounding you every day.

I can't imagine ever not having a team, being a part of a team trying to win a game.

With every side I've played for, I've always tried to fit in and joke with my team mates while enjoying good times with them on and off the pitch. And that's what's happened with Les Bleus.

I'll miss the competitive side and the camaraderie of being around the players and competing each and every day.

I just think it's great in cricket to come into a team environment. It's the first time I've ever experienced it.

At Lyon, there's 20 other superstars there - I'm not the best player there. I'm not the best player at England.

There's always competition in the national team.

I love making the big play. I love being out there with my teammates. I love the camaraderie. I can't say I always love practice. But it's a means to an end.

If my teammates are out there to hoop, I'm going. I see the way these guys prepare for games. How can you not want to go be a part of that?

I am feeling very well so long as I am out there on the pitch with my team-mates.

I love the relays. Track is such an individual sport, so it's fun to do something together.

We had a great group of guys when I was there, five of us, I think. It's a great competition. Every practice was hard. I think that's helped us a lot, everybody that was there.

You watch some teams these days and you wonder if they just met on the playground and decided to choose up sides.

A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.

Once I'm at the arena with the guys in the dressing room, and in the bus, and on the plane, I'm a player. And I sit in the back with the players and I play cards and try to take their money.

For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.