Elana Meyers Quotes

It takes all 11 on the field doing their job correctly to make it all happen.

I think the quarterback position, moreso than in all of sports, no other position compares - you rely on so many people to do your job.

Football is a collective sport, but goalkeeping is an individual sport.

I play a complicated position in an intensely team-oriented game.

To do a comedy team, it requires so much extracurricular stuff, so much compromise, so much intuitiveness to know what the other guy is doing. That's why it's so hard to do it.

The most important thing at Daytona is, are you going to have friends willing to work with you during the race as far as drafting? You've got to have friends out there. You can't do it alone. You form those relationships as the race moves along.

I really believe the only thing you can control in those situations is what you do as a player but also how you interact with your teammates, which is critical.

So I'd rather have a defense that's successful where everyone's comfortable in their positions.

In any team sport, the best teams have consistency and chemistry.

In a disaster you have to have speed. In order to have speed, you have to have trust. And in order to have trust, you have to have people organized and planning before the disaster.

Your receivers have to catch it, not drop it.

Actors become very professional and proficient about watching out for each other's light and not stepping on each other's lines.

In all things, you need a good organization. You can have the best player in the world; if you do not have the best team, you will not win.

The most satisfying way to play basketball is when you can get the best out of everyone on the court.

The hardest thing about a musical is making sure everybody is working on the same damn show. That is the monster.

I know what I do for my team and what my teammates expect of me on both ends of the floor.

It doesn't matter what play is called, you have to run that play and you have to be successful on it. It just comes down to execution, all 11 players doing the right thing.

Playing quarterback, you rely on everybody. Everybody impacts you.

How are you supposed to communicate on the pitch when you don't off it?

I think communication is massive in football and in all sports in general.

More often than not as a quarterback, your performance is a reflection of the guys around you. I've been fortunate to be around some pretty good guys.

You work to make sure that, in the game, everybody knows where they're supposed to be at, and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But if you put them in a position to be successful, that's all you can ask for.

As a goalkeeper, I needed good players around me. I needed Nemanja Vidic, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Wayne Rooney. It's the same as a CEO.

People need to know their role to produce performances and results.

That's what my job is; just get the ball to my guys.