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I consider myself very much a team player. -- Sigourney Weaver
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
Football's about the young players, bringing youth team players through to the first team and hopefully getting the best out of them so they can go on to play for their country. -- Wayne Rooney
You're never more of an individual than when you're a happy team player. -- Suzanne Farrell
The era of the rugged individual is giving way to the era of the team player. -- Bruce Coslet
I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble. -- Adam Arkin
Team spirit means you are willing to sacrifice personal considerations for the welfare of all. That defines a team player. -- John Wooden
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
At the moment we've only got 16 first-team players and my initials stand for Mick McCarthy, not Merlin the Magician (the new Wolves manager gets the excuses in early!) -- Mick McCarthy
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
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
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
There are plenty of team players in government who do whatever the leader says. There are too few difficult members, who have complicated minds, unusual perspectives, the toughness to withstand the party-line barrages and a practical interest in producing results. -- David Brooks
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
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
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
Our young Marines of today are courageous, willing to make sacrifices, and are marvelous team players. I am confident our Corps, and indeed our Nation, will be in great shape for a long time to come as these people continue to grow and assume greater positions of responsibility. -- James T. Conway
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
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
Derek Jeter has been a great representative of what the Yankees have stood for over the years. He has been a team player who has only cared about winning. He has also been a fine example both on and off the field over his long tenure as a Yankee. It has been a real pleasure to manage him and play alongside him. -- Joe Girardi
On good teams coaches hold players accountable, on great teams players hold players accountable -- Joe Dumars
When I gave up me, I became more. I became a captain, a leader, a better person and I came to understand that life is a team game...And you know what?...I've found most people aren't team players. They don't realize that life is the only game in town. Someone should tell them. It has made all the difference in the world to me. -- Don Mattingly
True champions are team players. -- Alan Cohen
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If you want to work consistently, you have to be a team player. -- Russell Malone
Lionel Messi is very much the team player, while Cristiano is very ego-driven. -- Jurgen Klinsmann
A gifted player, who is not a team player, will ultimately hurt the team. -- John Wooden
Being a team player should not imply a demand for simple obedience and conformity. -- Alfie Kohn
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
I've worked with a lot of first-time directors who kind of look to me for ideas and opinions and stuff, and I'm a team player. -- Jeff Bridges
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
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
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
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
I'm always interested in working with people who are good team players - that are selfless that way in their interests and dedication to the project. -- Diane Paulus
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
My life has changed in many ways, both on an economic and personal level. All major league players are accorded the respect they deserve. In Cuba, it was not that way. National team players were not respected. The treatment was not adequate. -- Yoenis Cespedes
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
While it would be as wrong of me to attribute these traits to women at the exclusion of men as it would be for a man to do the reverse, I think women can often be very strong team players and good communicators and collaborators. -- Diane Nelson
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
Bernie [Sanders], the team player, he made it known from the very start that he would be supporting the Democratic nominee, presumably Hillary Clinton, and what we learned in the course of Bernie's campaign is that you cannot have a revolutionary campaign in a counter-revolutionary party. -- Jill Stein
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
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
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
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.
I always felt the gifts you need as governor were more suited for my personality. I'm a good team player, but I'm not a policy wonk. In Congress, you need 218 votes to make anything happen. When you're governor, you're the CEO of the state. You establish the vision and standards for the state. You're the leader. -- Steve Largent
When you're on the court, there is certain things that you would do that you wouldn't do off the court. When you get off, you obviously have to be gracious and a humble person. When you are on the floor, be a team player. Championships are what you are defined by - legacy. Go about things the right way. -- Kevin Love
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
My agent says that I'm a 'repeat business guy.' If you hire me to come do a movie, I'll be on time, know all my material, be ready to go, have a good attitude. I'm here to work, so I get hired over and over again by the same producers. If you just be a team player on set you can work so much more often. -- Dean Cain
I am a team player - and that is what you need to be an effective point guard. You gotta see the court, you gotta set up the play, and you gotta let others execute for the most part. I don't throw elbows for the sake of throwing elbows, but if somebody throws one at me and it's necessary to respond in kind, I suppose I can if I have to. -- Susan Rice
The team with the best players wins. -- Jack Welch
No former player has owned a team in baseball. -- Derek Jeter
Even on the greatest teams, there's always one role player. -- Keith Olbermann
It's important for the team not to be relying on one player. -- Luis Suarez
I manage a team, for beach soccer. I'm the coach. Player, coach. -- Eric Cantona
I like to watch soccer, no matter what teams or players are in the field. -- Andres Iniesta
Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story. -- Casey Stengel
Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players. -- Earl Weaver
I want my team to win and to be the best player I can possibly be. -- Johnathan Joseph
The ability of players to jump teams when their contracts are up has hurt fan loyalty. -- Will McDonough
No cricket team in the world depends on one or two players. The team always plays to win. -- Virat Kohli
The work of a team should always embrace a great player but the great player must always work. -- Alex Ferguson
The team comes first. We want to keep all of our players. We want to take care of all of our players, but the team comes first. -- Bob McNair
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
I know as a manager you have to abide by the chairman's decisions. But his decisions were this team, that team, this player, that player. The chairman is a control freak. -- Paul Gascoigne
You've got to be extremely careful, because you could be with a great team, and you could be the product of a great team. There are some players that stand out despite the teams that they play on, and there are some players that are good because of the team that they're with. -- Marcus Allen
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
Hey, dont hate the player, hate the team. -- Si Robertson
The team is the star, never an individual player. -- John Wooden
No one player is as good as the sum of a team -- Alfredo Di Stefano
I had Lana and she was the number one player on my team -- Abbi Glines
A player who makes a team great is better than a great player. -- John Wooden
A player should never be selfish and should always contribute to team's victory. -- Shahid Afridi
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Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team. -- Scottie Pippen
You can't let any team awe you. If you do, you'll wind up a horseshit player. -- Luke Appling
I think his team are mirroring Stuart Pearce as the player he was. (on Manchester City) -- Alex Ferguson
The only reason people are saying I'm the number-one player is because I'm with the number-one team. -- Moses Malone
Rahul Dravid is a player who would walk on broken glass if his team asks him to -- Navjot Singh Sidhu
What Messi brings to a team, no other player can bring. Messi can break a match wide open. -- Mauricio Pochettino
The work of a team should always embrace a great player, but the great player must always work. -- Alex Ferguson
My favorite team while I was growing up was the New Orleans Saints. My favorite player was Joe Horn. -- Jacoby Jones
As a player all you can do is play within yourself, even in the context of a team sport. -- Jerry West
The coach's job is to be part servant in helping each player reach his goals within the team concept. -- Dean Smith
Each team always has that one power player, even Carmelo. Those are the guys who would represent the logo. -- DJ Khaled
It just feels good to say we're the best team in the world, with the best player in the world. -- Klay Thompson
Once a player joins our team, our priority is to teach him, not worry about the player we didn't select. -- Tony Dungy
One player's selfish attitude can poison a locker room and make it hard, if not impossible, to establish team work -- Dean Smith
If you managed a baseball team, would you listen more closely to the team accountant or the director of player personnel? -- Jack Welch
Do you want to choose winning over standing out? It's a choice every player on every championship team has to do -- Doc Rivers
Each player on this team whether he shines in the spotlight or eats dirt on the line, must be an All-American. -- Omar N. Bradley
Our offensive philosophy is to simply find a way to get the ball into the hands of our team's best player. -- Kelvin Sampson
Work as hard as you can to become as good an individual player as you can to help your team win -- Doug Collins
In the IPL, you are often single-handedly responsible for the fortunes of your team. It makes you more responsible as a player. -- Rohit Sharma
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
Cooper was my road roommate, and also happened to be the first African American player drafted by a National Basketball Association team. -- Bob Cousy
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
As a hockey player, playing for an Original Six team at Madison Square Garden, where its packed every night, theres nothing like it. -- Carl Hagelin
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
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
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
What I do as an individual player is only important if it helps the team to win. That is the most important thing. -- Cristiano Ronaldo
As a hockey player, playing for an Original Six team at Madison Square Garden, where it's packed every night, there's nothing like it. -- Carl Hagelin
...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
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
The only true satisfaction a player receives is the satisfaction that comes from being part of a successful team, regardless of his personal accomplishments. -- Vince Lombardi
In order to have a winner, the team must have a feeling of unity; every player must put the team first ahead of personal glory. -- Bear Bryant
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
I would never recruit a player who yells at his teammates, disrespected his high school coach, or scores 33 points a game and his team goes 10-10. -- Dean Smith

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