Sue Bird Quotes

I knew that to be successful, I had to be more than a scorer. I had to become a leader. It's not about scoring. It's about doing what my team needs me to do.

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.

It's about doing what the team needs me to do, not what I want to do or what I think I can do.

I'm doing whatever my team needs me to be. Whether it's play hard, screen-and-rolling, ducking in, whatever the team needs me to do to be successful, that's all that I care about.

In football, I've always been about adapting to what's asked of me, to what my team-mates need from me. I'm a team player.

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.

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

Being a good leader requires remembering that you're there for a reason, and the reason certainly isn't to have your way. High-integrity leaders not only welcome questioning and criticism - they insist on it.

To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players.

I'm used to being the main goal scorer, but I also always like to help.

When you empower people you sign up for a life of uncertainty and change.

I learnt that if we won, it didn't matter that I hadn't played. I had to keep working.

I don't want the power. When a project is given to me, and I say yes, I'm gonna oblige everybody who has the power to try to make it work.

I just focus on what the team needs me to do to win.

When you get offered the captaincy, you've got to have a go. In India, where it went well, I was playing well, and anything that needed doing, I'd do it myself. When I wasn't playing well, it was tough.

I love being around my teammates, and I love leading and having responsibility.

I will do what my team wants me to do and justify my place in the side.

I just try to play my game, whatever role it is.

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

Whatever role the coaches decide for me and the team, I'm happy with that.

I want to be useful for the team, depending on whatever position the coach chooses for me. That's the spirit I've always had.

Whenever I go out to bat, my only responsibility is to look at the scoreboard and think what India needs from me at this moment.

If I have to play at center back, I'll do it without any problems.

Everybody has to play for their team and accept his role, even if you are in a defensive position sometimes. That is the key if you want to have success.

If the team needs to score, I'm going to score. If the team needs me to rebound, I'm going to rebound. Play defense, I play defense.