Inspirational Team Quotes - Page 4

• Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Leadership, Teamwork, Mistake

  Patrick M. Lencioni (2010). “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable”, p.42, John Wiley & Sons

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• Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Real, Team, People

  "Emanuel and Axelrod - on the record" by Jim Vandehei, John F.Harris and Mike Allen, www.politico.com. April 24, 2009.

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• Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.

  Colin Powell

  Team, Fads, Management

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• As the game enters its glorious final weeks, the chill of fall signals the reality of defeat for all but one team. The fields of play will turn brown and harden, the snow will fall, but in the heart of the fan sprouts a sprig of green.

  John Thorn

  Team, Fall, Heart

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• One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Life, Football, Religious

  "Man: The Dwelling Place of God". Book by Aiden Wilson Tozer, 1966.

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• Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.

  J. C. Watts

  Football, Strong, Team

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• My only goal is to play 162 games and help this team win. If I can do that, everything will take care of itself.

  Eric Davis

  Team, Winning, Games

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• And what could be a hotter ticket than the improbable triumph of 'The Book of Mormon,' the musical-comedy moon shot of the season? Its creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, of Comedy Central's 'South Park,' are the most unlikely Rodgers and Hammerstein team ever to bowl a thundering strike.

  James Wolcott

  Team, Book, Moon

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• Anytime you play a team sport, the success of the team really makes everything better. It's nice.

  Ricky Williams

  Sports, Nice, Team

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• I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Football, Team, Sacrifice

  "Failure to Launch: When Beauty Fades". www.elle.com. May 20, 2009.

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• A team takes on the personality of the head coach.

  Ricky Williams

  Team, Personality, Coaches

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• The hardest that I've laughed at a movie was probably Team America. I laughed 'til I thought I was just gonna throw up. I almost had to turn it off.

  Ron White

  Team, America, Hardest

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• The team with the best players wins.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Team, Winning

  Jack Welch, Suzy Welch (2009). “Winning: The Ultimate Business How-To Book”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.

  Earl Weaver

  Team, Player, Coaches

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• If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day.

  John Madden

  Team, Bad Day, Nfl

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• The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game.

  Earl Weaver

  Hurt, Jobs, Team

  Earl Weaver, Terry Pluto (1984). “Weaver on Strategy”, Macmillan Publishing Company

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• In the Democratic primary in 2008, the Obama team devised a strategy to use the caucuses and a complicated system of awarding delegates in the state primaries to sneak up on Hillary Clinton and establish a lead Obama never surrendered.

  John Podhoretz

  Team, Use, Complicated

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• America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual.

  John Podhoretz

  Team, Rights, America

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• I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be conscious of that controlled togetherness as they made that slow entrance onto the field. It had a great psychological effect on the opposing team, too. They'd never seen anything like it.

  Hayden Fry

  Team, Player, Fields

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• The team is completely close. Anything you say outside, there is no chance it will go inside. So the team is really strong and compact. We know what we want and how to achieve it on the pitch.

  Jose Mourinho

  Strong, Team, Want

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• In the German football team players from different clubs need to get on with each other both on and off the pitch. In the grand coalition Christian Democrats and Social Democrats sit in the same boat and need to pull in the same direction.

  Angela Merkel

  Christian, Football, Team

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You need a team. You need people to push you. You need opponents.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Team, People, Needs

  "Steve LeVeille interviews Wynton Marsalis". Interview on WBZ Radio, radiofreesteve.wordpress.com. 1994.

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• When I wear the national team shirt, its sole contact with my skin makes it stand on an end.

  Diego Maradona

  Team, Skins, Shirts

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• People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Teamwork, Football

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• I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

  Tom Landry

  Motivational, Leadership, Teamwork

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