My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you and when they respect you they don't love you.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I always used to say to my wife, the thing that I loved most about us is that we are a team, we are impenetrable in that respect.
You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.
I've always just tried to treat people with respect, build relationships with players and coaches... build a trust.
I think any time you have a super team, whether it's all men or all women or both, what you have are people with very unique strengths that aren't always totally compatible.
That's ultimately the thing that sticks out to you most, that's most important to me, is that I have the respect of my teammates.
It's difficult working with someone who is not a team player.
I think that's the ultimate sign of a teammate and respect is that they compete against one another so hard at practice that here's a chance to share some knowledge inside. It takes some humility to do that.
I've got a great team around me with my family, manager and label, and we've all worked hard together to make things happen.
It's always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates, and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people's feelings.
I think it's an extremely important factor to have your team together. It goes back to having distractions. When you all stay together for a period of time you're not training people or feeling out different personalities.