Johnny Christ Quotes

I like myself. I think I'm cool. But I think when you're in a band you take on a role within the band, and I think people over the course of years can identify those roles as almost being bigger than just the individual. I don't know. It's kind of hard to talk about.

Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable.

I feel really lucky to be in a band where the guys, for all the opportunities to do things that potentially would be good for them but detrimental to the group, that everybody stayed loyal to the whole.

As big as my ego may be, I'm really not of the belief that I can't be replaced. I didn't invent the wheel. There's someone else out there who can do what I do, maybe a little differently. I believe that Kiss is bigger than its individual members.

You sort of get so lulled into thinking of yourself as this five-headed thing, the group, the band, The Hip. I guess you just forget it's a family, and like every good family, you can forget. But you're also committed to each other, so there's always room to grow, to learn and relearn.

The team will always be bigger than any one owner, or any one player, or one coach. The team is always first.

No one in Switzerland knows me as the Swiss Machine, and that's good, because I don't like it.

Stand in a way that you are always empowering people to join in, because the only way to be truly successful is not to succeed as an individual, but to succeed as a part of a community, of a country.

If people know too much about you, I think you become a little less interesting as an actor - your job is to fool people.

Fame is the worst thing that can happen to a person. I choose not to appear in anything publicly. Twitter's it!

People don't know who I am from my clothes, and they don't need to.

I don't like it when a player says, 'I like freedom; I want to play for myself.' Because the player has to understand he is part of a team with 10 other players. If everyone wants to be a jazz musician, it will be chaos. They will not be a team, and nothing will be possible.

When you work with Mourinho, you have to know that the group, the collective is above the individual.

You play for your teammates; you play for each other.

I don't want to be a celebrity designer. I want to keep my personal life out of it.

It's always been about the team; it's never been about myself.

Individual performance doesn't mean anything to me.

You won't find me at parties or the openings of movies and I don't hang around with David Beckham and Kanye West. So the paparazzi leave me alone, which means that I can do my shows, write music and then live a normal life.

The team comes first. Not one person is more important than the other.

The great thing is, it's not just about me and my impact. What you want to do is come in here and be a great teammate, lead by your excellence. That's all I've been trying to do.

We all allow each other to explore our individual things that make us happy, and so we're just being supportive of each other and making sure we focus on Fifth Harmony, and what's important to the group is important to all five of us.

Collaboration is a key part of the success of any organization, executed through a clearly defined vision and mission and based on transparency and constant communication.

We have a culture at NDSU that's about the team first.

One of the neatest things I saw with the team at Ohio State - and we preach about it all the time as coaches - is that the team genuinely played for the happiness, success and rings on the finger for the guy next to them.

I don't want people talking about me, for good or bad.