"I'm sure there have been guys who didn't realize they had a concussion and just kept playing. It's a violent game. The head injuries are the most dangerous to play with. We're trained to play no matter what. If you can run, and you're able to focus and know your responsibilities, you're usually out there playing. You wouldn't have enough players if no one played hurt. Especially if you're, like, on special teams, you're going to do everything you can to stay in the game."
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"Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute."
"I have to continue to be a great leader and contribute in any way that I can, and get guys to follow suit. That's how you turn a team around."
"I'm pretty sure I could outrun the whole Dallas Cowboys team."
"If you want to do really important things in life and big things in life, you can't do anything by yourself. And your best teams are your friends and your siblings."
"Finding the fine line between satisfying a daytime TV audience and an afternoon radio audience. That involved editing down my delivery to under an hour. I've been blessed to have great producers and a great staff to achieve that. I have a small team but they're very efficient."
"Acting is collaborative because you are working with another actor, and it's almost like a two-man juggling team. You have to really be in sync."
"Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team."
"...you could be the best team or the best player in different generations and people respect each other. Nobody cares who was the best."
"I feel sorry for high school teams still named the Cougars. Now what does the coach say? Get out there and play like horny old ladies!"
"My team has been very unreceptive about the fact that I consistently show them that I train slightly differently than they do, that I consistently show them that I am in better shape for ski racing than anyone else on the team."
"I believe in my heart I'm the best player in the world. I'm just a scorer. I try to put the ball in the basket for my team. I'm just confident in my ability to play ball."
"Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources."
"If you played the game the right way, played the game for the team, good things would happen"
"Qualifying for this Olympic team has been the most stressful experience of my athletic career. It has taught me so much about myself and how to handle high-pressure moments. I've learned to become my own biggest cheerleader, always feeding myself positive thoughts, visualizing myself winning, and most importantly focusing on each individual point."
"In sports, teams win and individuals don't."
"Good teams don't care about who scores. Good teams just care about scoring; they don't care who does it."
"We spent last night listening to Liverpool football team on the radio, wanting them to win so badly. Paul supports Liverpool. He was Everton for a while because of his family - but it's all Liverpool now."
"Winning teams at the NBA level, the college level, and the high school level all play team basketball. Championship teams have five players on the same page at all times."
"The test of a quarterback is where his team finishes."