Best Team Player Quotes

#1. Best team player? As good as Lebron James is, I have to go with Messi. What he's doing, he's on pace to becoming the best ever.

Luol Deng

#2. Get the best player because whether it's soccer or whether it's anything else the team with the best players wins. So focus your energy on getting the best and getting rid of the weakest.

Jack Welch

#3. I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing ... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

Lou Holtz

#4. It's always hard - if you're not the best player on your team, how can you be the best player in college?

Marcus Allen

#5. You get into pro ball and you realize all the guys were the best players on their teams. You have to keep moving forward.

Matt Holliday

#6. You can take the best team and the worst team and line them up and you would find very little physical difference. You would find an emotional difference. The wining team has a dedication. It will have a core group of veteran players who set the standards. They will not accept defeat.

Merlin Olsen

#7. The highest level of achievement is attained by the teams with the best conditioned players

Jack Ramsay

#8. 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.

Allen Iverson

#9. The best players don't win championships. The best team players win championships.

John Wooden

#10. On paper we might be the best team in the league. We've got great players on this team who accomplished so much. We just couldn't put it together.

Amar'e Stoudemire

#11. You are not an athlete because of what you can do, but because of who you are: a team player, someone who never quits, who strives to be his personal best, and who believes in fair play.

Rosemary Rawlins

#12. Today, he showed the world why he is considered the best batsman around. Some of the shots he played were simply amazing. Earlier, opposing teams used to feel that Sachin's dismissal meant they could win the game. Today, I feel that the Indian players, too, feel this way.

Wasim Akram

#13. This team [England] has some of the best players in England

David Beckham

#14. My ambition is that I have the best players
who can collaborate with each other to form
the best team in the world.

Louis Van Gaal

#15. I don't consider myself as the best player in the world. I'm not obsessed with individual titles. I'm much more interested in being part of a team which wins trophies.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#16. Scoring a lot of points is not a goal of mine. I just do whatever I do best to help my team win. I'm a role player.

Cartier Martin

#17. I have the possibility to watch Messi in training each morning, and because of what he demonstrates he is the best player in the world, he stated during a press conference. It is a pleasure to watch him, and because of the way he plays he is an undisputed leader of the Barcelona team.

Thierry Henry

#18. A player should be disparaged if he gives less than his all, if he doesn't give 100%, no matter what shirt he's wearing. Whether it's your national team, your club, or little league. Yes, there are friendly matches, recreational ones, and so on, but sport in its essence is about giving your best.

Rabih Alameddine

#19. Talent is extremely important. It's like a sports team, the team that has the best individual player will often win, but then there's a multiplier from how those players work together and the strategy they employ.

Elon Musk

#20. When your great players are team players, everybody else follows their lead. The best team doesn't always win - it's usually the team that gets along best.

John C. Maxwell

#21. It just feels good to say we're the best team in the world, with the best player in the world.

Klay Thompson

#22. I probably visualize myself, the shots I'm going to get in the game, how I'm going to play defense, what we have to do to stop the other team's best player, what it's going to take out of me, the whole aspect of the game.

Paul Pierce

#23. And I think they loved me because I loved being part of their team, you know, and I quite often say to kids, that I was the worst player in the world's best football team - and that was good enough for me.

Craig Johnston

#24. Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn't have won six NBA titles without a team.

Mark E. Hyman

#25. I always wanted to be a player, but I never had the talent to make the big leagues. So I did the next best thing: I bought a team.

Charlie Finley

#26. It's disappointing being a Canadian and having friends on that team but that's the way it goes. It's the Olympics. It's disappointing for every Canadian but over the years you've seen the parity with all the teams because it's the best players in the world.

Darren McCarty

#27. Neymar is undoubtedly the best player in Brazil. He deserves to play in the best team in the world; next to the best player in the world, Messi.He is a very good player with great quality and a great future.I have no doubt. For me, Neymar is a genius.

Pele

#28. With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.

Ice Cube

#29. I just really just try to get better as a player every week, just focusing on the team we have to play this week, and just trying to do whatever is best for the team that week.

Rob Gronkowski

#30. You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Robert Crandall

#31. Without any doubt the best player in the Premiership has to be Scholes. He knows how to do everything, and he is one who directs the way his team plays. On top of that, he has indestructible mental strength and he is a genuine competitor.

Thierry Henry

#32. To me, the team is more important than any individual member of the squad, and the players have to realise that and accept that my priority is to pick a side with the best possible chance of winning each match.

Gerard Houllier

#33. Owners want to make their team a winner so they can get more fans in the stands, and that's why they go after the best ball-players and pay 'em what they're worth.

Moses Malone

#34. I think each player has an individual style. Each is concerned with giving the best to his team, and I think my best talent is dribbling and setting up goal situations, giving an assist or deceiving one of the other team's players.

Ronaldinho

#35. For years Paul Scholes has been one of the best players in the Premiership. He's incredible. He has always been under-rated throughout his career. He's a team player, a one and two-touch footballer who makes good decisions on the pitch and makes his team play.

Thierry Henry

#36. My goal was just to try and be the best player on my high school team, and look where I am now. And that was still my goal as a young kid, just to try and be a little better than my brother was.

Larry Bird

#37. Our offensive philosophy is to simply find a way to get the ball into the hands of our team's best player.

Kelvin Sampson

#38. Whether we have the best individual players doesnt matter, you have to have the best team

Philipp Lahm

#39. I've been the best player on every team that I played on, so if I can't be the poster child of your team, then what else is it? It's got to be a black-white issue. Every white player I know who's the best player on their team is the poster child of that team.

Gary Sheffield

#40. I want my team to win and to be the best player I can possibly be.

Johnathan Joseph

#41. People aren't the same. Business is, in my opinion, all about the team that fields the best players. It's not about an idea. An idea goes away. Somebody catches up with it. It's not about a widget.

Jack Welch

#42. Leo [Messi] is the best player of all time - better than Pele, Maradona or Cruyff. There have been some great teams in history - Pele's Brazil, Cruyff's Ajax, Sacchi's Milan - but in the past 20 years this Barcelona team is the best.

Xavi

#43. The men can go away, the executives can go away, but what is really though in this society are the players who has been handed down the feel of winning, of being the absolute best, which isn't equal to any other team.

Gianluigi Buffon

#44. You could be the best team or the best player in different generations and people respect each other. Nobody cares who was the best.

Jim Brown

#45. If a player demonstrated that he is the best, and a team decides, even so, we don't want to pay him, as in any other business, he should be able to play elsewhere.

Lynn Swann

#46. God gives you opportunities and I'm thankful that the Chiefs gave me this opportunity. I'm very grateful to be on this team. I'm just going out there to try and be the best player that I can be for this team and take it from there.

Justin Cole

#47. I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones.

Ed O'Neill

#48. A pitching coach is a manager's best friend. He's handling 12 out of the 25 players on the team.

Lou Piniella

#49. Having Messi in the team guarantees everything. He doesn't just score, he gives assists, and he works and wins the ball. He is the best player in the world.

Sergio Busquets

#50. Messi and Neymar will create beauty - just like Picasso's paint brush. I still believe Messi is the best in the world. He has a special magic and is more of a team player than Cristiano. Never before has there been such a difference between the King and the next.

Cesar Luis Menotti

#51. You see the assets of your actors and you see their strengths and you try to play into them. It's like I feel part of my job is as a coach. I'm putting a team on the field and you want to formulate how to make the best game out of these players.

James Mangold

#52. I am very happy to be signing for the best team in the world and especially proud to be the first Portuguese player to join United.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#53. The team with the best players usually does win - this is why you need to invest the majority of your time and energy in developing your people.

Jack Welch

#54. The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not in the team. Given the size of the squads and the use of rotation nowadays, that's tougher than it's ever been.

Gary Lineker

#55. I pick first my best team, and my captain from that team and I only pick players that are on form.

Rudolph Straeuli

#56. Consistent motivation usually comes from a consuming desire to be able to perform at your best under pressure, namely, the pressure produced by tough competition. If a player needed me to light a fire under him by turning the other team into a demon, he was lacking something I couldn't give him.

Bill Walsh