Not A Team Player Quotes

#1. It's difficult working with someone who is not a team player.

George Takei

#2. My very good friend, Rahm Emanuel, made it very clear to me on several occasions that I was, quote, unquote, not a team player; that I was not - that I didn't not have a future.

Eric Massa

#3. I have an allergy to catching and throwing and kicking and dribbling of any kind. Noah is not a team player. Well, duh. Revolutionaries aren't team players.

Jandy Nelson

#4. anyway, the money was great, but the corporate world just wasn't to my liking. i guess i'm not a team player--or an ass-kisser.

Douglas Preston

#5. A gifted player, who is not a team player, will ultimately hurt the team.

John Wooden

#6. When a woman excels at her job, both male and female coworkers will remark that she may be accomplishing a lot, but is "not well-liked by her peers." She is probably also "too aggressive," "not a team player," "a bit political," "can't be trusted," or "difficult.

Sheryl Sandberg

#7. And if they tell you you're not a team player, just congratulate them on being so observant.

George Carlin

#8. I was very fortunate when I was little - I played basketball. You really absolutely learn how to be a team player, how to win a game, to accomplish things, not just for yourself.

Weili Dai

#9. I was very lucky that while I was a chess player in a country where chess was not a big deal, I happened to be in the one city where there was a sprouting chess team: Chennai.

Viswanathan Anand

#10. In the marathon obstacle course of a career, it's just good to have all the stats on paper for why you're not only a team player but also why it makes sense to support you in the projects you want to do - because you've made so much damned money for the studio.

Robert Downey Jr.

#11. I'm a pretty easygoing guy. I'm not hard to get along with. I never had anybody that I had trouble with. On the other team, sometimes you don't like players because of the way they act, but then you get to know them and then they're very good people. But I never disliked anybody.

Bengie Molina

#12. I like to be a team player. All the projects I do are collaborations. And I want to solicit the opinions and help of other people. I'm not interested in being the one in charge.

Madonna Ciccone

#13. 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

#14. I am the sort of player that likes to create goals. I think a lot of my team-mates know me as a player who is not selfish.

Mesut Ozil

#15. At football games the other students would cheer the star black running back, and then when a black player on the other team got the ball, they'd yell, "Kill that nigger! Kill that nigger!" They would yell this sitting right next to her, as though she really were not there.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#16. I think there's an awful lot of ball players with great skills, but whether or not they're going to be on winning teams is not going to be answered until you see how they fit in to a team or a program. If they don't, it may be their fault or it may be their coaches.

Tex Winter

#17. My opinion is there should NOT be an MVP award [in hockey]. The Olympic teams sports shouldn't acknowledge individuality. And if there is going to be such an award a player on the losing team who lets in the losing goal shouldn't get it.

Michael Wilbon

#18. Being a team player should not imply a demand for simple obedience and conformity.

Alfie Kohn

#19. 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

#20. That Canadian team had a bunch of guys who are in the 1 percent: Crosby, Getzlaf, Perry, Carter, Richards and Weber - guys who would win Olympic gold and make $8 and $10 million a season down the line. Though a player might be in that 1 percent, no team is, not as a group.

Patrick O'Sullivan

#21. Once a player joins our team, our priority is to teach him, not worry about the player we didn't select.

Tony Dungy

#22. I'm not driven by killer ambition. I'm not a workaholic. I'm a good team player. I don't have to be captain, but I do want to play on a winning team.

Jane Pauley

#23. There is an old saying about the strength of the wolf is the pack, and I think there is a lot of truth to that. On a football team, it's not the strength of the individual players, but it is the strength of the unit and how they all function together.

Bill Belichick

#24. It is always disappointing when a player is not prepared to stick it out and fight for his place in a national team.

Rudolph Straeuli

#25. For me, it's not about sacking the quarterback. It's about changing the course of the game. It's causing a crucial fumble at a crucial time. It's making a tackle for a loss when the opposing team needs to gain one or two yards for the first down. I look at myself as a sudden-impact player.

Simeon Rice

#26. I'm not a person or a selfish player, but we have to move the ball more, and we have to look further the team game, because we have enough talent to use different players.

Pau Gasol

#27. I hope I'm building a record of being a good team player and not just standing for my principles but being willing to work for them. I think when you do that and you work really hard, people take notice.

Aaron Schock

#28. I'm a part of a team, and I'm no better or any worse than any single player on this team. That's the approach I've always had and will continue to have. It's not about me. It has never been all about me. If it had, this would have been a really lonely journey.

Mia Hamm

#29. There's players like myself in the league who deserve to make the All-Star team and aren't given a chance. I've put up numbers, as good if not better than players that are making the team.

Jeff Cunningham

#30. It's not a fun process. There is no need for the team and a player to be on opposing sides a week or two before spring training. It's good to be on the same page.

Mark Teixeira

#31. Just because we want our favorite team to win does not mean there's any lack of toughness when a player chooses family first.

LZ Granderson

#32. 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

#33. Most of the evil of the world comes about not out of evil motives, but somebody saying 'get with the program, be a team player;' this is what we saw at Enron, this is what we saw in the Nixon administration with their scandal.

Philip Zimbardo

#34. One player's selfish attitude can poison a locker room and make it hard, if not impossible, to establish team work

Dean Smith

#35. 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

#36. Great teams are not made up of many well-rounded players. Great teams are made up of a variety of players, each having their own strengths.

Pele

#37. One player does not a team or victory make.

Elizabeth Eulberg

#38. It is not overwhelmingly difficult for a committed group of players with only average individual basketball skills to put together a very good team defense.

Del Harris

#39. You always miss a great player, but I think the players on this team have taken a lot of pride in overcoming obstatcles when we have a player down ? not only the offensive players, but the defensive players. We were very fortunate that we played that well.

Bobby Petrino

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. If there is something a coach might wish to see changed in a player or team, the first place to check and see if it could not be done better is in yourself.

John Kessel

#43. She's not much of a team player, more of a team yeller.

Kim Harrison