Drew Brees Quotes

You've got to be extremely careful, because you could be with a great team, and you could be the product of a great team. There are some players that stand out despite the teams that they play on, and there are some players that are good because of the team that they're with.

The last thing you want to see is your great players in the press box or in the locker room.

Now, everybody always says there's no 'I' in team, but there is an 'I' in win, because the individuals make the team what it is, and how they think and what they do is important to the team. So when you act like the individual is not important, well, it is damn important who these people are and what they are.

That's something that's so often overlooked in this game - the dynamics of the locker room.

Everyone wants to be close to your team. You don't want to have guys that don't feel comfortable in the locker room.

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.

A winning player is nothing more than a player on a winning team. A losing player is a guy who played on a losing team that year.

I believe first of all it's always a disappointment to lose the players at an important moment of the season.

Each team is different but you give yourself a better chance if you keep the team intact.

It's more difficult to achieve something with the national team because players from several clubs get together and less frequently.

It doesn't matter how well you play individually if the team isn't winning.

It is difficult to play a team with great morale and passion.

You want to build your own team for the highest level, and that happens more with teams that stay together.

I think it makes the game much easier to play once you have a good cohesion off the court. I think that's big because you come into a locker room at the NBA level, there's so much emotion, so much pride in the locker room.

If you don't have the best player in the world in the team, it would be strange if you didn't notice the difference.

Obviously every team is different, and you don't want to try and be them.

It's really difficult when you don't see much of a team and you're not familiar with how they play.

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 I went to work with Garinger, they were good kids and a very good team. But they had a nine-game losing streak, and you can see that they were getting down and depressed and not feeling rewards for their efforts. But when I came in there, I didn't need to teach them much about X's and O's.

I don't ever want to come in the locker room and have players in there pouting.

Of course there is 'Messidependence.' It would exist in any team in the world, but when he is not there, we also have to play and try to win. Leo is fundamental for us and marks the style; it is well known that he is the best in the world for something.

When the team's not playing well offensively, it's always a problem for me because I'm not an individualistic player.

I don't really want to go into my problems with the team at the time except to say that no one's ever had to pay me to play basketball.

I think the fitness of players is the key to success. I believe that there should be no place of unfit players in the team because the fit players also start becoming lazy seeing their routine. Having teamwork capabilities is also very important as there comes a lot of times where you have to think beyond your own interest to upkeep the national interest.