A leader's responsibility to his team is paramount. It overshadows even his own personal feelings at any given time.

When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football.

To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.

Effective teamwork begins and ends with communication

Pete Newell told me 'get as much information and learn as much about the game as you can, but use your own personality to teach it.'

Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable.

I have a rule on my team: When we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it's tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody.