Team Practice Quotes

It's always good to be out there with your teammates, working with your teammates in individual drills, team drills, just being out there, getting on the same page, just getting into flow with them.

I think Phil Jackson started that feud. It happened many times that after team practice he would say, 'Kobe said this about Shaq, and Shaq said that about Kobe... ' We couldn't believe how could that happen, because just the day before we saw them together, jumping on one another.

At Barca we trained every day with the ball. I hardly even took a step running without a ball at my feet.

The last couple of practices, all we've been doing is a lot of defensive things. We've been going over some drills that make all of us have to communicate.

Every Friday we'd do a final practice 'walk-through' for the game, and I just remember we were always out on the field dancing and singing together.

On the off days, you have to come in and try to maintain your rhythm, just try to keep everything together. I sometimes come by myself, or some of my boys, get up a few shots, not too much, before or after practice. I always find time to get some shots up.

Playing the scout-team quarterback in practice really helped develop my game.

On the road, we're hitting in the cages during our normal batting practice for our position players.

Basketball is a game of conditioning and fatigue. That's why I believe in practicing a team to train when it's exhausted.

A boy shows how much he wants to play in the spring, when it's tough, and during two a days, when it's hot and tough.

You just want to be in every day with the other players; you want to play a game every day if you can.

In the summer, during the holidays, there would be 5,000 people each day at training with Bayern Munich and that makes it hard to concentrate.

I wake up at about 9 a.m., and have a few hours of school or time to relax. Then, I have practice at 2:30 p.m. with my team.

Really, it's not harder to train for them because once baseball starts you play everyday almost.

I try to simulate as much as possible what we do on the field in my workouts, so when I get with the team I'm somewhere close.

I'll take a couple of breaks for some food, but other than that, that's pretty much all I do is play videogames and practice with my team.

There is nothing like playing in the actual games, compared to simulating it, working out, playing some five-on-five. It's not the same.

I don't do any sim at home or whatever. If I do, it's with the team, which is a proper preparation for me.

As a professional soccer player, I need to get touches on the ball every day, and obviously it's a lot easier to do that with a team than to motivate yourself to do it by yourself.

I never scrimmage Oilers against Oilers...What for? Houston isn't on our schedule.

There's not a lot of time to have conversations on the field during the game. That's where the trust and the practice comes into play, through practice, through off-site throwing sessions; that's where you build that trust and build that cohesion with a wide receiver.

With a club team you do get to work with them day in, day out, for weeks.

My wife will act as the offensive coordinator at times during the evening. I'll have her read the full play to me. I'll sit there and try to picture it, spit it back out to her, make sure I'm verbalizing it the right way so that when I step into the huddle the next day in practice, things are coming out clear.

There's a lot of players who you can pick up some stuff from, not just only full-backs or defenders. Even training with the top players every week you can get good things from all of them.

When I was younger it was twice a day with a game on the weekend. Then when I got older, three times a day everyday in college and on the national team.