Chris Crutcher Quotes

Just like in life, when you play basketball, you have to give in order to receive. On the court, you're not only making things move along by giving the ball, but you're also giving your physical and mental strength, your passion, your talent, your trust in your teammates. This way the power can multiply and the whole team wins.

I try to give everything for my team.

Friendship is very important to me. With some friends, we've known each other since we were kids and it's a very strong relationship. They always tell me what they think even when I am wrong. It's great to share with them the best moments. I also have many friends in the team, and I like to share my passion with them.

No one is going to stick their head out of the trenches for someone they don't respect or trust. You can get shot doing that.

What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back; you have to be a kind of team going through life.

You decide to give your trust over to somebody. And if you don't decide to, then for me, it's really not worth going into collective enterprises; you should just work alone.

I'd rather trust nine people and have the 10th one stab me in the back. I'd take that fall in order to have those nine friendships or working relationships instead of having none. That's not living.

Love should be all about giving and trusting.

In love, we have to dare everything if we really love.

I'm pretty intense when it comes to relationships, platonic ones as well. If I feel a connection with someone, I'm willing to go there.

I believe love isn't simple, and it's one of the things that makes people break all the rules.

If you're not loyal to your team, you can get by for a while, but eventually you will need to rely on their loyalty to you, and it just won't be there.

When you have trust, it gives you a better chance to be successful.

I just want to contribute to my team and earn the trust and do everything they need from me.

I trust my teammates and their ability to be there when they have to be there. I'm going to be there when I have to be there for them.

When you're on a good team, you just want to do your part and know that they trust you.

If you can't trust, it's harder to love and if you can't love it's harder to be happy.

If the team needs you, you need to sacrifice.

Acting, for me, is giving to your co-actors.

I just wanted to work, build a relationship with my teammates, and earn their trust.

My teammates always have my back on the field, and I will do everything in my power to make sure I always have theirs.

You work all season to earn the trust of your teammates and the coaching staff.

I'm always going to be passionate about the guys we have in the locker room because they've always been OK with me - they've always done right by me - so I have no problem playing with them, going out there and sweating, bleeding, and winning with them.

For Adam, screwed-up bonding thing or not, I’d wait forever. “Really?” he asked in a tone I’d never heard from him before. Softer. Vulnerable. Adam didn’t do vulnerable. “Really what?” I asked. “Despite the way our bond scares you, despite the way someone in the pack played you, you’d still have me?” He'd been listening to my thoughts. This time it didn't bother me. “Adam,” I told him, “I’d walk barefoot over hot coals for you.

With the mindset that I give everything I've got for the man that's next to me, not me, cause I know what I got while I'm by myself, but when I step on the field, when I step on the turf, what am I willing to sacrifice?