Teamwork Quotes

“I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I'm more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world.”

“When the year starts the objective is to win it all with the team; personal records are secondary.”

“I want to concentrate on being part of a team, not just on me.”

“It doesn't matter if I am better than Cristiano Ronaldo; all that matters is that Barcelona are better than Madrid.”

“I hate letting my teammates down. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win.”

“Once you get on the playing field it's not about whether you're liked or not liked. All that matters is to play at a high level and do whatever it takes to help your team win.”

“I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed.”

“I've always been an unselfish guy, and that's the only way I know how to play on the court. I try to play to the maximum of my ability, not only for myself but for my teammates.”

“Your teammates give you the confidence. They give me the confidence all year, all postseason.”

“When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.”

“You play with 10 players, you don't play alone.”

“The personal stats are good, but the collective is better.”

“When we make the effort for each other, it makes the difference.”

“If the team needs you, you need to sacrifice.”

“I'm not going to revolutionise football. I'm in a system. You have to know how to respect it and to stay in place.”

“I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.”

“The important thing is that your teammates have to know you're pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.”

“There's been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that's simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we've won when I score 10.”

“I'm more than comfortable just sitting back and scoring 21, 22 points and getting 10, 11 assists. It's just a matter of the pieces that you have around you and what you can do to elevate everybody else.”

“Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.”

“The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.”

“If a combination to do business is effective in saving waste and in getting better results, why is not combination in philanthropic work even more important?”

“Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.”

“When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.”

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”