Derek Fisher Quotes

As a captain and as a player I wanted to lead the team well and score runs, because I know the team still depends on me very much.

To me, there's no honor to say, 'I'm going to start.' As long as you're getting minutes, you're closing games, that shows more of the value to the team than to say you're a starter.

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

I love holding myself accountable and being held accountable by my teammates. It's never easy, but it comes with the role of being a leader, and if your leadership is not up to par, then the team won't be willing to work as hard.

You've got to understand that on all my club teams, I've been an impactful player.

I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. That's what I try to do.

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.

To say that the captain makes the team lose or win is not correct.

I know that it is a huge responsibility to be the captain, the No. 10, but I like it. I like the responsibility, the pressure, and I like playing football.

I know my role on this team, and I'm expected to prepare and to perform every week and play well. I relish that opportunity - to be somebody the guys can count on week in and week out, to play really well. That's what really motivates me: to make my coaches proud, my teammates proud, and the fans proud.

I've just got to go in there and get some quality at-bats and do my job and help the team win any way I can.

The coaches can only put us in the right position, but it's up to the players to take the action.

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'm at my best when people are depending on me. If it's just on me and I don't have nothing to do, I'm going to be lazy. On the football field, it's every single day, every play, knowing that people are depending on me to make my play. That helps me elevate my game to another level.

If things are not going well on the field, then it's up to me to lead by example.

I try to prove that I am an important player every day and game after game.

I know what I do for my team and what my teammates expect of me on both ends of the floor.

It's not an issue for me if I captain England in 42 Tests or in 50. It's a question of what is best for the team in Test and one-day cricket.

Ultimately I'm the captain, but if someone can't get themselves in the right state to play, it's not my job. If they don't want to come into work determined to be the best they can be, they're in the wrong job.

Every day, you want to come in and contribute when your name is in the lineup.

When you've got a leader that wants to go out and practice at the ultimate, highest level, when something that you should do doesn't go right, there's going to be a little fire under that, and that's what you need from your leader.

Everybody's watching when you're the quarterback. The other players see how much you want it.

I'm just going to go out there and contribute the best I can.

What I'd most highlight about Leo Messi is his huge sense of responsibility for the team. It shows in every game in every competition.

I hope my role is an important one at Roma.