George Carlin - Babe Ruth - Victor Cahn - Vince Lombardi - Scottie Pippen - Publilius Syrus - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - Lionel Messi - Gary David Goldberg - Mickey Mantle - Alex Ferguson - Clive Lloyd - Michael Owen - Bill Shankly - Jean-Paul Sartre - Jonathan Hayward - Trailer Park Boys 2001-2018 - Bottle Rocket 1996 - Alex Ferguson -
I don’t like ass kissers, flag wavers or team players. I like people who buck the system. Individualists. 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.’ Avoid teams at all cost. Keep your circle small. Never join a group that has a name. George Carlin
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime. Babe Ruth
In our country, true teams rarely exist ... Social barriers and personal ambitions have reduced athletes to dissolute cliques or individuals thrown together for mutual profit ... Yet these rugby players, with their muddied, cracked bodies, are struggling to hold onto a sense of humanity that we in America have lost and are unlikely to regain. The game may only be to move a ball forward on a dirt field, but the task can be accomplished with an unshackled joy and its memories will be a permanent delight. The women and men who play on that rugby field are more alive than too many of us will ever be. The foolish emptiness we think we perceive in their existence is only our own. Victor Cahn
Individual commitment to a team effort – that’s what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilisation work. Vince Lombardi
Sometimes a player’s greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team. Scottie Pippen
The losing side is full of suspicion. Publilius Syrus
One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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 all this is over, what are you left with? When I retire, I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy. Lionel Messi
A good team, like a good show, comes into being when the separate individuals working together create, in essence, another separate higher entity – the team – the show – which is better than any of those individuals can ever be on their own. Gary David Goldberg
A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide. Mickey Mantle
The work of a team should always embrace a great player but the great player must always work. Alex Ferguson
You’re on your own out there with ten mates. Michael Owen
In my time at Anfield we always said we had the best two teams on Merseyside – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves. Bill Shankly
In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team. Jean-Paul Sartre
He may well yet pull his team from the edge of the cliff by the scruff of its neck into the land of milk and honey. Jonathan Hayward
We want everyone working together for the betterment of Sunnyvale as a team. Trailer Park Boys s12e8: Will You For to be Fucking Married to Me? Randy to Bubbles
I really want to be part of this team. And I’m the only one with the car. Bottle Rocket 1996 starring Luke Wilson & Owen C Wilson & Robert Musgrave & James Caan & Lumi Cavazos & Ned Dowd & Shea Fowler & Haley Miller & Andrew Wilson & Brian Tenenbaum & Stephen Dignan et al, director Wes Anderson, Bob
I was a shop steward for the Apprentices. The Apprentice’ Strike [April 1960], that was a really important moment for me. It was great. Being part of it. It wasn’t about, you, it was about us. About being a team. Alex Ferguson: Never Give In, Channel 4 2022