Pat Gillick Quotes

Its the name on the front of the jersey that matters most, not the one on the back.

The All-Star Game represents everything we as a nation love about basketball on and off the court - diversity, sportsmanship and, most of all, a commitment to unite fans.

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

Loyalty? There's no loyalty in football.

The players think it's all about them! It's not about them - it's about the game of football, man!

The 'Team Up North' is something that we talk about every single day. And the best way to respect a rivalry is to work it every day. And we do.

I'm to a point now where you want to play for your fans and all that, but I'm playing for the guys in that huddle. I'm playing for the guys in that locker room.

Hit a home run - put your head down, drop the bat, run around the bases, because the name on the front is more - a lot more important than the name on the back.

I don't know where the loyalty lies in baseball. You really don't have to protect each other much, unless there's like a bench-clearing brawl. In hockey, it's important that they look out for each other.

There's a place in my heart for every team I played on.

In football, you're like brothers.

Then in a fraction of a second, I realized that these sportsmen were not anyone's enemies.

We're sympathetic, but once you step on the field, football's football.

Baseball is an individual game, but it should never be a personal game.

I've got to stand up for the sport.

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

There's a great thing about amateur sport: it is purer. And the athletes are not open to so much pressure with amateur sport.

I always cheer for my MMA brothers and sisters.

That's why you play the game. You play the game for your teammates, who really want to play with and for you.

There's great affection, tremendous loyalty, but anytime you open up the season, when you walk in the locker room, there is a circle, and my obligation to everyone in that locker room is the circle has to be as strong as possible to give us a chance to win.

The thing you miss most, when you don't play and you don't coach, is the huddle. You miss the huddle. You miss the ability to walk in the room where collectively players are from everywhere. Every race, every religion, every color. It don't matter, because you've got a common goal. You're trying to be something special as a team.

When two players are playing with passion for their country, that's good to see.

I love the game of football so every time I step on the field I'm going to do me. I'm going to go hard for the guys in the locker room.

There's a lot of politics in football, and sometimes the real values of the sport, those human values, get lost.

I know how much of a uniting game cricket is and as a leader of the Birmingham Phoenix that is something I definitely want to promote.