Team Roles Quotes

A captain shouldn't be chosen on the amount of goals he's going to score.

We can't all be good at everything. This is partly the logic behind having a team in the first place, so each role can be filled with the person best suited for that role and together, every job and every strength is covered.

When you're younger, everyone wants to be a point guard. Everyone wants to shoot fadeaway jump shots all day. Nobody wants to be a big man. Nobody wants to go stand on the block and just set picks.

One of the hardest things for a ball player to do is to accept his role

Everybody wants to be a starter, and I feel like I'm a starter in this league, but I can't necessarily control that.

I knew as an assistant coach it wasn't my place to overstep the head coach.

It's hard on an all-gay softball team because no one knows if they want to be a pitcher or a catcher.

I don't like it if I'm not part of the starting 11.

I started as a fourth-line fighter, went to being a third-line centre, then a second-line winger and a first-line centre. I've played every role there is, and the only thing that matters is helping the team win.

The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb.

A football team is like a society, straight up. There are rapists, but there are creatures and there are film guys.

It's not just about showing people what you can do on the ball in those wider positions, it's about gaining the full understanding of each position and what it takes to get that spot.

Even though it's a shortened format of the game, Twenty20 allows people with different skills to play in a team and play their specific roles. Obviously there's not too much time to waste balls, but if you look at guys who play well in the top six, they have a fairly decent amount of good cricketing ability.

Obviously, I want to be on the field each and every play, but that's not what I can control.

There are guys on different teams across the league who are bench guys, and guys who that - that's their role, to be on the bench encouraging guys to play hard and get good minutes.

The job of the offense is not to score points. The job of the defense is not to stop the other team from scoring points.

Like all players, I do not like being a substitute.

A player can't request on what position he wants to play, and it is the same with the captaincy. One should respect this, there are hierarchies.

It always amazes me that spectators want to coach, coaches want to officiate, and officials just want to watch the game

I got into a few games after they were hopelessly won or hopelessly lost, you know, when they put the substitutes in, and finally the water boy, and then me. That is the way it worked.

Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.

Different teams put me in different situations.

Every team that I've played on, I've either been the captain or co-captain.

Whether you play or whether you're on the bench, or however it may be, at some point in your career you will be one of those three roles. You will either be a young, up-and-coming goalkeeper watching the experienced one, you'll either be on the bench or you'll be in goal yourself.

When I arrived at Chelsea, I had got used to playing 50 games, and suddenly, I was sharing my position with another player.