Team Player Quotes - Page 3

• 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

  Team, Player, Boston

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 9, 2013.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Sports, Team, Player

  4 Copy quote

• I don't get a big charge out of being the leading scorer. The object of competing is winning. I just try to do what has to be done for us to win. That might be anything at the time - defense, rebounding, passing. I get great satisfaction out of being a team player.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Team, Winning, Player

  40 Copy quote

• We're being very good team players here and very happy we've got a great working relationship with Reince Priebus and the RNC. They've been spectacular to us.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Team, Player, Great Work

  "Anderson Cooper Interview With Kellyanne Conway Says Hillary Clinton Has Been Fighting For Herself For 30 Years". Interview With Anderson Cooper, lybio.net.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the German football team players from different clubs need to get on with each other both on and off the pitch. In the grand coalition Christian Democrats and Social Democrats sit in the same boat and need to pull in the same direction.

  Angela Merkel

  Christian, Football, Team

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are plenty of teams in every sport that have great players and never win titles. Most of the time, those players aren't willing to sacrifice for the greater good of the team. The funny thing is, in the end, their unwillingness to sacrifice only makes individual goals more difficult to achieve. One thing I believe to the fullest is that if you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

  75 Copy quote

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

  Pat Riley

  Teamwork, Effort, Decision

  Pat Riley (1993). “Winner Within Success”, Putnam Publishing Group

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• I consider myself very much a team player.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Team, Player

  "Sigourney Weaver: No Damsel In Distress". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. July 13, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Teamwork, Motivational Sports

  Pat Riley (1993). “Winner Within Success”, Putnam Publishing Group

  30 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  John Wooden

  Hurt, Team, Player

  4 Copy quote

• People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Teamwork, Football

  28 Copy quote

• One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

  Knute Rockne

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  94 Copy quote

• Avoid teams at all cost. Keep your circle small. Never join a group that has a name.

  George Carlin

  Team, Circles, Names

  George Carlin (2004). “When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, Hyperion

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• I often warn people: "Somewhere along the way, someone is going to tell you, 'There is no "I" in team.' What you should tell them is, 'Maybe not. But there is an "I" in independence, individuality and integrity.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  106 Copy quote

• Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

  Casey Stengel

  Motivational, Teamwork, Baseball

  16 Copy quote

• The values learned on the playing field-how to set goals, endure, take criticism and risks, become team players, use our beliefs, stay healthy and deal with stress-prepare us for life.

  Donna de Varona

  Sports, Stress, Team

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  Team, Player, Hands

  Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. June 15, 2010.

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Team, Ambition, Winning

  25 Copy quote

• 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

  Baseball, Team, Player

  Branch Rickey (1965). “The American diamond: a documentary of the game of baseball”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

  Joe Paterno

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  73 Copy quote
• 

  Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

  Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

  163 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Kings, Team, Believe

  7 Copy quote

• How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Soccer, Sports

  34 Copy quote

• 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

  Team, Player, Winning

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I put all of my energy into building the game and giving women opportunities and, to put everything into it and then to be deemed selfish or not a good team player or outspoken, it's been hard. But at the same time, I'm going to get the critics and I know that.

  Hope Solo

  Selfish, Team, Opportunity

  Source: www.wbur.org

  6 Copy quote

  Show source