Miroslav Klose Quotes

As long as I am in the team, it doesn't matter whether I am in goal.

It's not the great stars that win; it's the great teams that win. It's the teams that subjugate their ego to the team and put the team first.

Putting the need of your team above personal self-interest is a difficult thing to do.

The last thing I want to do is anything to hurt the team.

I've always said, in the era that I played, all those years with the Saints, you don't come out with a big ego.

I don't think I'd like to be that guy who does disrupt training. I always feel the team comes first, and that's the way it is, and me being a disruptive influence, because I'm not playing, doesn't help the team.

Team spirit is paramount - each of our own egos has to take a back seat. That applies to me as well as everyone else.

To work for the team and for the success of the team. That is more important than one ego.

With me, and people know this, since I've gotten to the league the first day I've always been about trying to help my team win, trying to play for my teammates. That's just the way that I am.

I enjoy sacrificing myself for my teammates.

The team always comes first.

For me, the team always comes first, and without the help of my colleagues, I am nothing.

Collaboration is an important part of the process, and ego is never a part of it.

I'll never try to win an award. I'm out there just playing for my team.

With the mindset that I give everything I've got for the man that's next to me, not me, cause I know what I got while I'm by myself, but when I step on the field, when I step on the turf, what am I willing to sacrifice?

It was actually the opposite of what a director once said to me. He said, 'Remember, everyone is here to serve you.' And as he walked away, I thought to myself, 'It's exactly the opposite: I'm here to serve everyone.

I always step back and look at - you know, look at my background in playing team sports my whole life and taking that approach into Congress. It's not about me going, and you know, feeding my ego going to Congress.

I try not to have too much of an ego. I'll do anything.

Hit a home run - put your head down, drop the bat, run around the bases, because the name on the front is more - a lot more important than the name on the back.

There can be a lot done if you are not so particular about who gets credit for it.

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

Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous.

Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit.

People here were willing to assume minor roles for the sake of a common enterprise. This spirit of teamwork must have been characteristic of the 19th century and was what made great industrial empires possible.]