Sports Team Quotes - Page 6

• People here don't identify themselves by their sports team.

  Michael Wilbon

  Sports, Team, People

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• When you look at where team sports are going, the National Football League is turning into organized warfare.

  Oren Lyons

  Sports, Football, Team

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• In a team sport like basketball, every time you help somebody else, you help yourself.

  Pete Carril

  Leadership, Basketball, Sports

  Pete Carril, Dan White (2004). “The Smart Take from the Strong: The Basketball Philosophy of Pete Carril”, p.70, U of Nebraska Press

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• You know, I never looked down the road and said, 'Hey look, one day, the Hall of Fame.' It's always about playing each and every game 100 percent and I thank my teammates for getting me into the Hall because football is a team sport, not an individual sport.

  Jerry Rice

  Sports, Football, Team

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• I love team sports - they give me something to focus on rather than the fact that I can't breathe or my muscles are aching.

  Sanjeev Bhaskar

  Sports, Team, Giving

  "My body & soul". Interview with Laura Potter, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2009.

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• There is nothing you can be doing in lacrosse on your own in the fall that would be better for you than going to football or soccer practice every day. You can go bang a ball against a wall all you want, but how do you become a better team player? By playing other team sports.

  Dom Starsia

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• Our society loves to romanticize the idea of the single, solo inventor who, working late in the lab one night, makes an earthshaking discovery, and voila, overnight everything's changed. That's a very appealing picture; however, it's just not true. Medicine today is a team sport.

  Nguyen Quyen

  Sports, Team, Night

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• I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay. I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport. But since I am, I'm happy to start the conversation. I wish I wasn't the kid in the classroom raising his hand and saying, "I'm different." If I had my way, someone else would have already done this. Nobody has, which is why I'm raising my hand.

  Jason Collins

  Sports, Team, Kids

  "Why NBA center Jason Collins is coming out now" by Jason Collins, www.si.com. April 29, 2013.

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• I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport. But since I am, I'm happy to start the conversation.

  Jason Collins

  Sports, Team, Athlete

  "Why NBA center Jason Collins is coming out now" by Jason Collins, www.si.com. April 29, 2013.

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• In team sports the athletes were bonded by each other, there was an immense peer pressure to keep going. One dared not miss a practice for fear of letting his teammates down. Every time an athlete thought of getting back into bed in the morning he knew he would have to face the anger of his closest friends. But the sculler had to find motivation entirely within himself. No one else cared.

  David Halberstam

  Sports, Morning, Motivation

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• The aim of human life is to know thyself. Think for yourself. Question authority. Think with your friends. Create, create new realities. Philosophy is a team sport. Philosophy is the ultimate, the ultimate aphrodisiac pleasure. Learning how to operate your brain, learning how to operate your mind, learning how to redesign chaos

  Timothy Leary

  Sports, Philosophy, Team

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• When I was a kid I used to hate getting picked for team sports. It would be the fit and sporty guys over there. And me and the fat kids over here. Those kids were fat! One girl had to be cut out a hula hoop.

  Alan Carr

  Funny, Girl, Sports

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• I'm thrilled, I'm grateful, I'm blessed. I played for the world's greatest professional sports team in history. Once a Dallas Cowboy, always a Dallas Cowboy.

  Bob Hayes

  Sports, Teamwork, Blessed

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• I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize

  Warren Farrell

  Sports, Team, Thinking

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• Any team sport, there are certain team targets and those targets should always be in the forefront.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Life, Success, Sports

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• When it comes to anything that's social, whether it's your family, your school, your community, your business or your country, winning is a team sport.

  William J. Clinton

  Sports, Country, Team

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001”, p.2890, Best Books on

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• There is no life for girls in team sports past
  Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I
  thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.

  Billie Jean King

  Girl, Sports, Team

  FaceBook post by Billie Jean King from May 15, 2010

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• In sports teams, apart from talk of sporting prowess and the imparting of inspirational thought, an extraordinary amount of time is spent discussing, and flaunting, material possessions.

  Harsha Bhogle

  Sports, Team, Flaunting

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• Football is a team sport, and there is no one individual who is bigger than the next person.

  Emmitt Smith

  Sports, Football, Team

  "Self-Doubt Will Never Plague Dallas' Smith" by Fred Mitchell, Chicago Tribune, p. Sports: 2, January 26, 1994.

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• What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.

  Jeffrey Katzenberg

  Sports, Team, Squash

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• Broadway shows in New York draw two times the attendance of all New York sports teams put together.

  John Lahr

  Sports, New York, Team

  "Betting the Tonys". www.newyorker.com.

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• I played a ton of team sports growing up, and team wins are just incredibly gratifying.

  Jason Bateman

  Sports, Growing Up, Team

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• And I watch Saturday Night Live religiously, I have since I was a little boy. I watch it basically like one of my favorite sports teams.

  Ty Burrell

  Sports, Team, Boys

  "Show What He's Really About Solo Talk With A Family Man". Interview with Angel Cohn, www.brilliantbutcancelled.com. May 5, 2010.

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• Sports teams, people who follow sports teams, religion, churches, work - any company, I find that people just generally have a need to belong to something larger than themselves.

  Sean Durkin

  Sports, Team, People

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

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• The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.

  Wendell Pierce

  Sports, Team, Community

  "Wendell Pierce Goes to Market". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. February 2012.

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