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No matter what you do in the offseason, you can't simulate putting spikes on and standing in the grass and being around your teammates. When you're around your teammates, you step it up a notch. It's just kind of instinctive you do that.

— Jon Lester

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Teams are always hitting me in the gut, trying to grab me when I jump and stuff like that. But I expect it.

— J. J. Watt

As a team, you need to come from behind every once in awhile just to do it. Good for the attitude. It makes it exciting. And when everybody knows you have to throw it... that makes it fun too.

— Dan Marino

Being a good teammate is when you try to sprint down a ball that everyone thinks is going out of bounds. But you go after it anyways and you get it.

— Mia Hamm

You just go out there and try to compete and try to make a play for your teammates.

— Kawhi Leonard

I know that baseball players have certain rituals or habits that they develop, because sometimes it becomes somewhat superstitious if they get on a streak and want to do the same thing over and over again.

— Chadwick Boseman

In baseball, you're always moving people around.

— Joe Torre

When you're going into a game, you're not expected to hit a home run every game. You're just doing everything proper with proper swings.

— Frank Thomas

You know, if you play on home soil sometimes funny things can happen and you have that push of the crowd.

— Ruud Gullit

Every time I step onto the field, whether people like it or not, I'm not trying to play dirty - I'm just playing tough.

— Carli Lloyd

✗Opposing Perspectives

That's what makes it so fun to be on a team. You're sitting at your house, thinking up this wild, crazy stuff as to how it's going to go, and the other guys are sitting at their houses doing the same thing.

— Bill Walton