Smriti Mandhana Quotes

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

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.

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.

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 certainly do not want to be remembered as a good captain who perhaps didn't contribute with the bat as much as he might have done.

I've been up and down the order. I'm just happy to get a game and wherever I'm told to bat or told to bowl I'll do it.

My individual role is to take the innings as deep as I can and perform in a way that benefits the team most.

At the end of the day, all I can focus on is doing what I need to do, as a player, to help the team win.

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.

If I have to play every snap for us to have a chance to win, I'm going to do that.

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.

That's one thing I pride myself a lot more now, playing defense, I do what the team needs me to do. If we need a stop, I'll do it. That's a major, major part of my game now.

I do whatever the team needs to do on offense or defense, whatever it is to win. And I'm a competitor.

I've grown over the years and I know how to adapt to situations, where I can go into a situation where there's a crowd of people and just take over. But pretty much I'm off to myself. And I'm totally committed to the game of football. That's why I've had so much success.

Ask not what the role can do for you; ask what you can do for the role.

It's nice to put your hand up and do the big things the team requires of you.

I've been part of a team and leader of the team. But wherever I've been, I've worked as if that was the only opportunity I had. I've never looked beyond that.

I am focused on what needs to be done for the people of Israel. Period. I do not pity myself and I do not pat myself on the shoulder. I get up in the morning full of energy to fulfill my mission.

In the military, I learned that 'leadership' means raising your hand and volunteering for the tough, important assignments.

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

The team needs me out there on the field. And sometimes you allow that to jeopardize yourself, but that's just the nature of the world.

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

My mind became so frazzled by the end of the 1974 season that I decided the thing to do was give up playing for England and concentrate on Yorkshire. I felt the only way to succeed was to captain and play every match for Yorkshire.

As long as I am in the team, it doesn't matter whether I am in goal.