Ken Griffey Jr. Quotes

Being part of a team that was so unselfish was amazing. What we were able to accomplish was very meaningful, and the fact we were able to get it done as a team.

In the end, individual titles are achieved with the help of all your team-mates.

If you take five wickets, someone has to take the catches. If you score a hundred, someone has to be there with you. You haven't done it individually. Some contributions may be small, but they are still tangible. You have to look at it from a team point of view. When you start looking at it as an individual, then you have no team.

If the team is scoring, and I'm on the court, that's as good as me scoring.

I had a lot of success, of course, but whatever was achieved was due to a group effort on the part of all the players.

What I've seen in my own life is that when I get something important done it's because of a lot of other people - some who get credit, some who don't.

The face of the team are the people who're playing on the cricket field. The team is not about one individual.

For me, honestly, it's not about individual accomplishments, individual award. It's about what I've got to do and how I can contribute to the team.

You win as a team, you lose as a team, you also do so many things together.

People that complete other people's vision are understated.

A team championship doesn't happen because three people score 10s, it happens because all the guys score well. In my opinion, everyone deserved 10s, we're all 10s on this team.

My success is the team's success. It's one of those things to a certain degree that it's effort and ability but also how I benefit from what my teammates do, and then it is up to me to perform.

I think the players win the championship, and the organization has something to do with it, don't get me wrong. But don't try to put the organization above the players.

It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone, or any other Important thing--and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others.

No doubt, if you go through records, Dhoni is India's best captain to date. Beating Sourav Ganguly, he won the Tests, ODIs, and T20s, won both the World Cups. Nobody can deny that, but to give credit to a single person is not good; others should also get credit for winning the Cups.

You have to win with the team and for the team.

Success is knowing that your contribution is what helps the collective.

At the end of the day, if I become an All-Star, it's because of my teammates.

Each player has this quality, this characteristic to help the team as a collective. For me, that is very important.

It is good to win awards but the most important is to win together.

I didn't really care about the individual stats.

Success is measured by what we accomplish together.

It's not one person that changes the team.

I'm just concerned with winning, not individual accolades.

It's not really about what I can do individually, it's about what we can accomplish as a team.