Sports Team Quotes - Page 6

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

  Michael Wilbon

  Sports, Team, People

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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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• In football, it's the ultimate team sport. You have to have good people around you as a quarterback for things to happen.

  Warren Moon

  Sports, Football, Team

  IGN Interview, www.ign.com. August 4, 2006.

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• Giving the cat a name, like marriage, is not an easy thing. Soon I experienced the selection of name for a baby, a dog, a book, a warship, a sports team, even the king, the pope or a hurricane is just child's play compared to the selection of the cat's name.

  Cleveland Amory

  Sports, Dog, Baby

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• Wrestling is a team sport, and an individual sport all rolled into one.

  William Baldwin

  Sports, Team, Wrestling

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• I had no idea what was in store for me this season. This is the first time I've been a part of a true team sport, and there's someone else counting on you. You can't let that person down, and that's what drives me.

  Lauryn Williams

  Sports, Team, Ideas

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• The airline business is the biggest team sport in the world. When you're all consumed with fighting among yourselves, your opponents can run over you every day.

  Gordon Bethune

  Sports, Running, Team

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• Successful innovation is not a single breakthrough. It is not a sprint. It is not an event for the solo runner. Successful innovation is a team sport, it's a relay race.

  Nguyen Quyen

  Sports, Motivation, Team

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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