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True champions are team players. -- Alan Cohen
The best players don't win championships. The best team players win championships. -- John Wooden
I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble. -- Adam Arkin
Im 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 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
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
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
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
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
Do you value people who won't benefit you or only those who might contribute in some way to your success? Great team players truly value others as people, and they know and relate to what others value. -- John C. Maxwell
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
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
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
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
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
The team with the best players wins. -- Jack Welch
I consider myself very much a team player. -- Sigourney Weaver
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
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
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
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
The Arsenal youth team is full of young players. -- Robbie Earle
This team [England] has some of the best players in England -- David Beckham
The more honor and self-respect among players, the greater the team. -- Frosty Westering
Some of their players are internationals; some play for their national team. -- Steve McClaren
If you want team play, you must stress defense. Defense makes players unselfish. -- John Brady
Players who are late say that their time is more important than the team. -- Don Meyer
Recognize and reward players who put the team first, not just the gifted ones. -- Don Meyer
A team doesn't win the championship if its players are working from different agendas. -- John C. Maxwell
Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story. -- Casey Stengel
Good attitudes among players do not guarantee a team's success, but bad attitudes guarantee it's failure. -- John C. Maxwell
Most talented players don't always succeed. Some don't even make the team. It's more what's inside. -- Brett Favre
Whether we have the best individual players doesnt matter, you have to have the best team -- Philipp Lahm
I, most talented players don't always succeed. Some don't even make the team. It's more what's inside. -- Brett Favre
Football isn't necessarily won by the best players. It's won by the team with the best attitude. -- George Allen
Portugal have a national team called Cristiano Ronaldo and a group of players who run after him. -- Carlos Queiroz
A pitching coach is a manager's best friend. He's handling 12 out of the 25 players on the team. -- Lou Piniella
We may not be the best conditioned team in the country, but our players think they are. -- John Wooden
The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful. -- Chuck Daly
Give me five players like Robinson and a pitcher and I'll beat any nine-man team in baseball. -- Chuck Dressen
Real Madrid is a legendary team that stands above all others and is the target of all players. -- Franz Beckenbauer
If you gave Arsene Wenger eleven players and told him to pick his team, this would be it. -- Andy Gray
A small team of A+ players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players. -- Steve Jobs
Basketball is a team game. But that doesn't mean all five players should have the same amount of shots. -- Dean Smith
Five players on the floor functioning as a single unit: team, team, team-no one more important than the other. -- Gene Hackman
A lot of players think the game is all about individual performances when it's really all about a team game. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Selfishness is the greatest challenge for a coach. Most players are more concerned with making themselves better than the team. -- John Wooden
Even the greatest players accept coaching and value the need for discipline and the order that it brings to the team -- Jack Ramsay
I pick first my best team, and my captain from that team and I only pick players that are on form. -- Rudolph Straeuli
It's all about putting the best team together - not just in the front office but the players on the field. -- John Elway
The number one thing on any team that will keep your players from being selfish is respect for the other players. -- Nick Saban
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
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
The greatest players fit with the team. They play within the team's style, rather than asking the team to change its style. -- Patrick Ewing
There's no home team in tennis, no built-in fan base, so the players have to step up and do their fair share. -- Andy Roddick
Good coaching may be defined as the development of character, personality and habits of players, plus the teaching of fundamentals and team play. -- Clair Bee
It's every manager's dream, I suppose, to build a team by coaching young players of 15 to 17. That's why I started a youth scheme. -- Matt Busby
And historically the owners have used loyalty to a team or a city to hold players as opposed to always paying their worth. -- Lynn Swann
The winning team has a dedication. It will have a core of veteran players who set the standards. They will not accept defeat. -- Merlin Olsen
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
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field? -- Jim Bouton
A team is a group of players who support one another on court and who think of the group before they think of themselves -- K. C. Jones
There have been so many outstanding players I've had as team-mates, but if I had to choose I'd choose Giggsy, he can do anything. -- Paul Scholes
My focus was always first and foremost to stop the puck. I never let the other players on the other team get to me. -- Andy Moog
The running backs are the strengths of their football team. They have quality players who can do a number of things for their team. -- Greg Schiano
A weak, insecure nation needs sporting heroes, players larger than life on the cricketing field, who can transcend the limitations of their country and team. -- Shashi Tharoor
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
Philadelphia loves its team, and being able to win a World Series for the city, fans, players and our Phillies organization meant so much to me. -- Pat Gillick
Brazil's always had great players, both at home and abroad, but we need to put all that talent together and mould a team out of it. -- Pele
I dictate entirely how the team is prepared, and I am a hands-on coach; I love to be out there with the players taking the sessions. -- Brendan Rodgers
To have a successful team, you have to have great players of course - but you have to have good personalities and good people as well. -- David Beckham
The young Obama's lack of playing time on the high school basketball team was due more to his ability than the coach's preference for white players. -- David Maraniss
The first thing any coaching staff must do is weed out selfishness. No program can be successful with players who put themselves ahead of the team. -- Johnny Majors
When I was really young, the women's national team wasn't on a grand media stage, so my role models were male basketball and male American football players. -- Abby Wambach
A leader may be the most knowledgeable person in the world, but if the players on his team cannot translate that knowledge into action, it means nothing. -- Mike Krzyzewski
If U.S. Grant had been leading a team of baseball players, they'd have second guessed him all the way to the doorknob of the Appomattox Courthouse. -- Bill Veeck
Real Madrid is a great club, and I will have some great players at my disposal who all want to help improve the level of the team. -- Juan Ramon Lopez Caro
I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself. -- Connie Mack
I've been around enough to know what it takes to get a team to reach its potential, and I want players who want to reach their potential. -- Bill Parcells
I am constantly being asked about individuals. The only way to win is as a team. Football is not about one or two or three star players. -- Phyllis Diller
I am constantly being asked about individuals. The only way to win is as a team. Football is not about one or two or three star players. -- Phyllis Diller
My dream has come true. I play with the great players and on a great team. I'm smiling and happy and enjoying the time of my life. -- Alexander Ovechkin
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
On a good team there are no superstars. There are great players who show they are great players by being able to play with others as a team. -- Red Holzman
I don't know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It's a dream. -- Zinedine Zidane
It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well. -- Cal Hubbard
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
Regard your team as a family. Give the same attention to the bottom guy as you do the top guy. You have a responsibility to all of your players. -- Pete Newell
If a player is trying to intimidate a skilled player on your team, what do we want? We want our skilled players playing, so we shouldn't be doing that. -- Bobby Orr
The glory of sport is witnessing a well-coached team perform as a single unit, striving for a common goal and ultimately bringing distinction to the jersey the players represent. -- Dick Vitale
Basketball, more than any other sport, is a team game...about the thousands of small, unselfish acts, the sacrifices on the part of the players that result in team building. -- Dean Smith

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