Team Player Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. Cheerleading is life, you must give it your all, and always strive to be on top. It teaches you so much, from how to be a team player, leadership, dedication, confidence, and many other qualities.

Natasha Richardson

#4. I'm a confident player, I know I can score. I don't think anyone can guard me consistently off the dribble. But I'm a team player.

Chamique Holdsclaw

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

George Carlin

#6. 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

#7. I've never been on one of these shows where you have to make alliances and be a team player.

Judy Gold

#8. I don't know, scene stealing is something I see as, people look at it, it could be a positive thing, but I really like to think of myself as a team player. It's kind of like one player can make the other teammates better, kind of like Larry Byrd dishing off.

Kevin Dillon

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

George Takei

#10. I'm a team player. But I will say that I've never been a 'yes man' in my life.

Steve Southerland

#11. One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it's making cold calls to strangers. Actually, it's the people who already have strong trust relationships with you, who know you're dedicated, smart, a team player, who can help you.

Reid Hoffman

#12. I'm a really good team player. That's what it takes to work in the theater. That's what it takes to work in a band with musicians and writers.

David Cassidy

#13. I don't treat the band like I'm above them or that they're a hired hand for me. We've never worked that way. So I'm a team player. I would be very uncomfortable having to do this alone.

Tom Petty

#14. Molly. I have an opportunity for you."
"An opportunity?" I repeated, without enthusiasm. Oh, good. Next comes the part where he tells me to be a "team player" and then dumps some tedious task on me.
"It's a chance for you to show that you can be a team player," Bill Vogel said.

Frankie Bow

#15. You act like a team player,you be nice to everyone for your entire life,then you die.

Stephan Pastis

#16. To be a leader, you must first be a team player, and you must care for the men you lead.

Dick Couch

#17. If I had to pick the greatest team player in baseball today-and I have some of the greats on my own club-I would have to pick Pie Traynor.

John McGraw

#18. 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

#19. Humanity is in my heart. Do I suffer fools? No. Am I a stickler for my profession? Yes. I am a task master? Yes. My military background, football background, I'm a team player all the way, and I love winning.

Isaiah Washington

#20. If Peter has learned one thing about human nature during all his years in hockey, it's that almost everyone regards themselves as a good team player, but that very few indeed understand what that really means.

Fredrik Backman

#21. Rocky is a warrior, we've had a lot of great battles starting from when I was 16. He's a true team player, great fighter, and I have a ton of respect for him.

Mike Brown

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. Organisations are innovating quicker than ever. Your members need to excel from being a team player to a team builder.

Janna Cachola

#26. You get a promotion?"
"I got a polite, but firm suggestion to be a team player. [ ... ]"
"You got off easy. One of my commanding officers once threw a paperweight at me."
"We're a bit more subtle.

Nelson DeMille

#27. I'm busy working on every aspect of my game - defense, shooting, rebounding - but I really want to become a better overall team player. Help my teammates become better players out on the court in order to win more ball games.

Kevin Durant

#28. Evangelical churches often make extroversion a prerequisite for leadership, sometimes explicitly. "The priest must be ... an extrovert who enthusiastically engages members and newcomers, a team player," reads an ad for a position as associate rector of a 1,400-member parish.

Susan Cain

#29. It was funny because she thought of herself as a good team player, although sometimes she suspected that no one else on her team did.

Kate Atkinson

#30. Lionel Messi is very much the team player, while Cristiano is very ego-driven.

Jurgen Klinsmann

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

Kim Harrison

#32. When I retire and I'm back at home with me kids, they're not going to care that I smiled too much on the field. They're not going to care what kind of team player I was.

Jim Edmonds

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. There is nothing you can be doing in lacrosse on your own in the fall that would be better for you than going to football or soccer practice every day. You can go bang a ball against a wall all you want, but how do you become a better team player? By playing other team sports.

Dom Starsia

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

John Wooden

#37. 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.

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. If you want to work consistently, you have to be a team player.

Russell Malone

#41. The era of the rugged individual is giving way to the era of the team player.

Bruce Coslet

#42. I consider myself very much a team player.

Sigourney Weaver

#43. To become an executive chef, you have to start at the bottom, learn the ropes, know the kitchen, and know the basics. Be okay with having someone constantly telling you what to do. Be a team player. Oh,

Jane Bedell

#44. I'm a control freak except that I'm a good team player. So I obsess about the details of things but I also trust the team.

Seth Green

#45. If there's a national-team player, he has to do extra work. He has to do extra weeks, and he can't go on vacation even if he says: 'Well, but I'm supposed now to have six weeks off.' If he comes and says that, then I give him a hug and say: 'Have fun the six weeks, but don't come back here.'

Jurgen Klinsmann

#46. Beside my obvious physical structure, I have been told on almost every set I've been on that I am a joy to have around. I grew up as a team player on team sports. Later as a doorman where you had to watch each other's back and trust the guy beside you.

James Preston Rogers

#47. 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

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

Alfie Kohn

#49. Comedy Central made me delete the Boston Marathon joke. I wasn't happy about it but, despite popular belief, I can occasionally be a team player.

Anthony Jeselnik

#50. Work hard - beat out half the team. Be committed, play fair as a team player - Beat out another quarter of the team. The last quarter is your desire and beliefs, and where you are playing.

John Kessel

#51. Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.

Branch Rickey

#52. Team spirit means you are willing to sacrifice personal considerations for the welfare of all. That defines a team player.

John Wooden

#53. 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

#54. You're never more of an individual than when you're a happy team player.

Suzanne Farrell

#55. Ms. Baird, no one is good or bad at sex by themselves," he drawled. "It's a team effort, and you know I'm a team player.

Nalini Singh

#56. Being a team player will help you climb the ladder of success. Furthermore, a successful team player can rise to the level of team leader in the future.

Vishwas Chavan

#57. Everybody has a role on the team, and some have a role as a scout team player. They have to emulate the offenses that we are going to face. Those players still have to go through the out-of-season work and they work hard.

Barry Alvarez

#58. 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

#59. Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.

Scottie Pippen

#60. Sure, sometimes guys pass you up in salary, and maybe it's a lesser player, but it's all based on what a team has as far as value in that person.

Brett Favre

#61. One single great player doesn't make anything for a team; it has to be a team. I think [American] football is the greatest team sport there is because you have to depend on your brother next to you.

Tim Tebow

#62. 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

#63. A small team of A+ players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players.

Steve Jobs

#64. 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

#65. When they hunt, every dog knows the position of every other dog. I wanted them to understand the duality of team and player. The strength of the player is the team and the strength of the team is the player.

Terry Pratchett

#66. 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

#67. For a college basketball player or coach, to reach the Final Four is la-la land. You've achieved, you've got your stamp of approval. My first team to do that was in 1986. Then we did it in '88, '89 and '90.

Mike Krzyzewski

#68. In basketball, you can be the greatest individual player in the world and still lose every game, because a team will always beat an individual.

Bill Walton

#69. At Alabama, our players don't win Heisman Trophies. Our teams win National Championships.

Bear Bryant

#70. 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

#71. My favorite football team is the Bears because my favorite player is on there, Devin Hester. I love the whole team, though. But that's just my favorite player.

Jacob Latimore

#72. When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Pat Riley

#73. The work of a team should always embrace a great player but the great player must always work.

Alex Ferguson

#74. The coach's job is to be part servant in helping each player reach his goals within the team concept.

Dean Smith

#75. I know the questions will be around the money, the amount Chelsea had to spend to bring him here but that's the reality of modern football. Big teams only want big players, big players are in big clubs, big clubs want to keep their big players.

Jose Mourinho

#76. 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

#77. 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

#78. The analysis of statistics is a big part of the modern game, and it's important as a modern manager to embrace areas that can help your team and players improve.

Brendan Rodgers

#79. The Arsenal youth team is full of young players.

Robbie Earle

#80. It is an interesting balance in trying to find players to make your team really good and at the same time running a financially sound operation. That is the challenge for every team.

Steve Kerr

#81. Don't let talent get in way of team performance. Great players do what's outstanding for team, not what makes them stand out

Jerry West

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

Kelvin Sampson

#83. I have always been a leader on my team. I have always been a guy that held player-only meetings. I'm the type of guy that stood up and said something. I know how to lead.

La'el Collins

#84. I never would say a player stinks. Ever. I'll tell you their team stinks, and first of all, they know their team stinks. And the fans know their team stinks.

Charles Barkley

#85. What Messi brings to a team, no other player can bring. Messi can break a match wide open.

Mauricio Pochettino

#86. Even the greatest players accept coaching and value the need for discipline and the order that it brings to the team

Jack Ramsay

#87. 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

#88. If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Bud Wilkinson

#89. Goals have never defined me as a player. What has defined me is my impact on the team. If that means passing or playing defense to win, I'll do it.

Mia Hamm

#90. 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

#91. Coaching is salesmanship. Coaching is winning players over and convincing them they have to play together. It takes a team conviction to play together to make things work.

Phil Jackson

#92. And I have been very blessed, having coached some of the greatest that have ever played the game. But if I had to start a team today, the greatest player and the one guy I would take would be Larry Bird.

Red Auerbach

#93. A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group, that's teamwork.

John Wooden

#94. The attitude in terms of how players work both on and off the field has a massive impact on us as coaches but also the performance and how the team does as well.

Warren Gatland

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

Philipp Lahm

#96. You need experience around you when you are a young player. You need to know how to run a team, to lead a team and to play as a team which means, your team has leaders but you still function as a team.

Berti Vogts

#97. I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history..

Willem De Kooning

#98. I think that my IQ level grew as a player. I think that I [run] the game a little bit better. I'm waiting for the game to come to me, and I'm picking and choosing my spots instead of just going out there and just doing whatever because I don't have to do that with this team.

Derrick Rose

#99. It's just that [the Hawks have made] a lot of changes. A lot of their great players have moved on. They have a lot of new faces and a lot of young guys who are going to be a part of this team for a long time. It'll take time. They've got a nice little core to start with.

Mike Modano

#100. Players who are late say that their time is more important than the team.

Don Meyer