Team Quotes - Page 28

• The most DIFFICULT thing for individuals to do when they become part of a team is to sacrifice, it is much EASIER to be selfish.

  Pat Riley

  Selfish, Sacrifice, Individual

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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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• I never really hated any particular sport but out of all the sports, I used to prefer the team games to running and sprinting and those types of things.

  Rachel Stevens

  Sports, Running, Games

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• The morning we left South Bend, every student and professor was out of bed long before breakfast and marched downtown accompanying the team to the railroad station. It was the first time I'd seen anything like this mass hysteria generated on the Notre Dame campus over a football game.

  Knute Rockne

  Football, Morning, Games

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• I guess the second-term team is not quite as adoring as the first.

  Peggy Noonan

  Firsts, Term

  Peggy Noonan (2015). “The Time of Our Lives: Collected Writings”, p.288, Hachette UK

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• If you want to be great, you can't be great by yourself. You gotta to bring people around you. As the the challenge escalates, the need for teamwork elevates. The greater the challenge, the better the team.

  John C. Maxwell

  Teamwork, People, Challenges

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• I love the NBA playoffs. It's just a great mental test for each team.
  When it's really close, usually one team pulls together, and the other team comes apart.

  Doc Rivers

  Nba, Together, Tests

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• What great founders do is seek the networks that will be essential to their task... Usually it's best to have two or three people on a team rather than a solo founder.

  Reid Hoffman

  Two, People, Essentials

  "How To Be A Great Founder". Reid Hoffman's Lecture at Stanford University, startupclass.samaltman.com. November 4, 2014.

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• I don't know what to say other than you're really honored another team is looking at you.

  Don Mattingly

  Honored, Knows

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• It takes a lot of people to make a winning team. Everybody’s contribution is important.

  Gary David Goldberg

  Winning, People, Important

  "March Madness and the Successful Sitcom" by Gary David Goldberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2008.

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• At Alabama, our players don't win Heisman Trophies. Our teams win National Championships.

  Bear Bryant

  Winning, Player, Alabama

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• A goalies job is to stop pucks,.... Well yeah, thats part of it, but you know what else is?... Youre trying to deliver a message to your team that things are OK back here. This end of the ice is pretty well cared for. You take it now and go. Go! Feel the freedom in order to feel that dynamic, creative, offensive player and go out and score....That was my job. And it was to try to deliver a feeling.

  Ken Dryden

  Jobs, Player, Order

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• A few mistakes don't worry me; what worries me is when you make the mistakes and then forget your role on the team and start to worry about your ego.

  Digger Phelps

  Leadership, Sports, Mistake

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• I notice that teams are now more interested in Japanese players than when I first went to Europe.

  Hidetoshi Nakata

  Player, Europe, Firsts

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• Each weekend I play at least one and maybe two sets of tennis a day. My doubles team was in the finals recently at my tennis club in Palm Beach and lost a tiebreaker after a three-hour match. I must confess, by the end of the three hours, I was relieved it was over.

  Wilbur Ross

  Beach, Weekend, Play

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• The garden is doing so well, we have so many greens and radishes that everyone is enjoying. Also, we are using one square as a compost bin, the Green Team is collecting food waste at lunch. Things are looking great, a huge thank you again.

  Mike Moreno

  Garden, Squares, Lunch

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• There's a tipping point that happens with soccer in which you just kinda get it. I was drawn to it because the best soccer teams play similarly to my favorite basketball teams - like the eighties Lakers or eighties Celtics - teams that emphasized teamwork over individualism and relied on passing as their biggest ongoing edge.

  Bill Simmons

  Basketball, Soccer, Teamwork

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• A lot of people say I can't do it because I'm blind, or I have red hair, or my feet are too big. Get the right team around you, don't set boundaries and go for it.

  Sabriye Tenberken

  Hair, Feet, People

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• You can have the best team in baseball, and if nobody goes through the turnstiles, you've got to shut the doors down.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Baseball, Doors, Ifs

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• I worry when I can’t help the team with everything I have to offer.

  Luis Suarez

  Worry, Helping, Offers

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• There's no way I can tag team with Randy Orton; he just wears too much baby oil!

  John Cena

  Baby, Wwe, Oil

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• Not to mention our former tag team champions lost their titles after my good friend Christian was hit in the genitals with a hockey stick by a midgit! I mean enough is enough

  Kurt Angle

  Christian, Mean, Hockey

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• The European Commission says that people who are working the country can play in the national team. Perhaps Didier Drogba can play for England after five years. We have to protect against that.

  Michel Patini

  Country, Years, Play

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• Anybody who has a career is going to have to deal with a rumor in their time, or something that usually isn't true. I have a great team behind me and a family that supports me. I just care too much about my career. I have been working too long to let it slip away for something stupid.

  Jesse McCartney

  Stupid, Careers, Long

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• Some teams can't or don't pass the ball. What are you playing for? What's the point? That's not football. Combine, pass, play. That's football - for me, at least.

  Xavi

  Football, Play, Balls

  "I'm a romantic, says Xavi, heartbeat of Barcelona and Spain". Interview with Sid Lowe, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2011.

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