Team Role Quotes

I kinda wanted to play receiver more.

I know what I can bring to a team and I want to do that.

Depending on how we start the season, I can play center or wing... It doesn't matter to me.

I have been blessed with some really special crewmates. Being able to be a really integral member of the team, no matter what role I was in, was truly special.

I like to be involved as much as I can in the game, and in the middle, you're definitely the heartbeat of the team. When you're on the right, you can go minutes without seeing the ball, and that's a long time when you're out on the pitch.

I still believe I have a part to play for England.

I am enjoying playing as a full back, and I would like to continue in this position.

I can probably go down in history as the best backup point guard ever in NBA history.

When you're at Manchester United there are a set of demands, and one is to be a team player, and I don't think anyone has been on the bench more than me!

Especially young guys, it's always fun to see young guys come in and have that same enthusiasm about playing a certain way and fitting into a certain role and going after guys, trying to get them off their game.

An NBA star is a role player. Your role is to score a lot of points; your role is to get a lot of rebounds.

Growing up, every team that I've played on, I was a pretty important piece to the team.

I want to be playing, I want to have a chance to compete for my position in the team, and I want to be useful for the team and do the usual stuff on the pitch week in, week out.

I did the utility thing at first out of necessity to find a place on the team.

Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.

I haven't played a lot as a centre-back, but in those games, I feel like I did well.

Sometimes you've got to just dig down deep and be accountable for the role that you have on the team.

I don't score many goals or do much dribbling, but I still feel very much an important part of the team.

It might be okay for somebody else on the roster to sit on the sideline but it's not okay for me to be. I'm the franchise player, I'm the guy on both the microphone and in the ring.

I miss being the focal point of the team - the guy everyone looks to for decisions. And guidance.

It's tough coming out of Nebraska, where you're the man and you have to score, to going to the guy that sets the team up and being a role player.

And I've always been able to play basketball at the highest level, and been able to play a significant role on the team I've been traded to.

I can play at left-back and I can help the team at times. But everyone knows I am not a left-back.

There are games where the striker will be useful for the team in terms of creating space and being involved in the game, without necessarily scoring, but he'll have played an important role for the team. But, of course, over the course of a season, I have to score goals, as that's what statistics reflect.

To be honest, it was only when I was first in the French Ligue 1 that my manager and other people started to say, 'Okay, N'Golo recovers a lot of balls.' Before that, I didn't consider it to be my job in the team.