Team Quotes - Page 31

• Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team.

  Phil Knight

  Baseball, Dream, School

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• At 4, I joined a summer rec team called the Sugar Bears.

  Summer Sanders

  Summer, Sugar, Bears

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• To be able to influence someone or to be able to have a group of guys come together to have a successful team and to be together all the time every day for, you know, a year and longer together, you have to have a - find a common ground. And that common ground for us is football.

  Tim Tebow

  Football, Successful, Years

  "Tim Tebow Discusses Faith and Football in the No Spin Zone". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. June 3, 2011.

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• The contracts are structured different than athletes in America, but for me, it was good to move on and go back to playing in the premiere league, which is the best league. It was disappointing, as far as the team goes, but for me, there wasn't much I could do.

  Claudio Reyna

  Sports, Moving, Athlete

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. March 27, 2006.

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• The Leader will be a person with the management skills to coordinate the activities of the Team, and to assure that the Team remains faithful to the objectives of the incoming President.

  Richard V. Allen

  Management Skills, Leader, Faithful

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• I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.

  Manu Bennett

  Kids, Australia, Dancing

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• My No. 1 priority, and it always has been this, is keeping our team together and making sure we have the right guys in the right positions to make a run at this for a long time.

  Drew Brees

  Running, Long, Guy

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• I'm competitive. I'd love another chance to be part of a Stanley Cup championship team. That'd be awesome.

  Ed Belfour

  Cups, Another Chance, Championship

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• Our economics are not baseball's economics. Our game is not baseball's game. Our owners are not baseball's owners, with one or two exceptions. Our union is not baseball's union. What we do has to be crafted and suited to address hockey, to address the NHL, to address our 30 teams and our 700-plus players.

  Gary Bettman

  Baseball, Hockey, Player

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• My daddy died when I was two years old. My mother raised my two older brothers and me. And we couldn't have had a better situation. I mean, she was the - ran the concession stand at the Little League, and she was the first woman president of The Touchdown Club, the booster club for the high school football team. And so, I had a wonderful childhood.

  Haley Barbour

  Mother, Football, Brother

  "Rep. Paul Ryan on Deficit Reduction; Gov. Haley Barbour on 2012 Presidential Politics". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. February 13, 2011.

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• I participated on debating teams and in student government, and served as senior class president.

  Paul D. Boyer

  Senior, Government, Class

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• What we have to do is to find a solution that the interests of the national teams are respecting the interests of the clubs. And also the clubs they shall respect the interests and the aspirations of national teams.

  Sepp Blatter

  Clubs, Aspiration, Interest

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• All companies of any size have to continue to push to make sure you get the right leaders, the right team, the right people to be fast acting, and fast moving in the marketplace. We've got great leaders, and we continue to attract and promote great new leaders.

  Steve Ballmer

  Moving, People, Leader

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• I think directing in a team is a really good idea because it stops the cult of the director as God straight away, and also you're discussing things on set so it opens it out to everyone and it becomes a totally collaborative thing. And you have someone who supports you when you're feeling a bit insecure.

  Alan Cumming

  Insecure, Thinking, Support You

  "Acting out" by Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2007.

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• And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Book, Writing, Simplicity

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

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• In Georgia it's a little different because of the East Cobb program. It's such a strong program that we see a lot of kids that come through here on a lot of different teams from across the country that come here to play in tournaments.

  Roy Clarke

  Country, Strong, Kids

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• It's a whole team of people working 24 hours around the clock to make me look like this.

  Clay Aiken

  People, Looks, Hours

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• As long as I have that support from my team, and I have that confidence in myself that I train really hard, I think there's no one out there who can defeat me in my weight class.

  Nonito Donaire

  Thinking, Class, Long

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• I put together an iPhone app called TrimIt and released that in July 2011. About a month later, the private fund of the Hong Kong billionaire Li-Kashing cold emailed me and expressed an interest to invest, but they didn't realize I was 15. They thought it was a U.K. company with a team.

  Nick D'Aloisio

  Iphone, July, Together

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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, People, Church

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

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• I had the opportunity to go with some other teams. But I didn't consider those teams to be contenders, and I was right.

  Pedro Martinez

  Opportunity

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• There's not too many teams that can succeed on and off the field together.

  Johnny Damon

  Together, Fields, Succeed

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• Paul Lambert has assembled a great bunch of lads and training has been going very well. I am just desperate to get into the team and do my best for the club.

  Kenny Dalglish

  Training, Clubs, Desperate

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• I’d never managed anyone before, so I don’t have a lot of experience. But I’m lucky - I have a lot of team members who have a really honest relationship with me.

  Ben Silbermann

  Lucky, Honest, Members

  "Ben Silbermann, Pinterest Founder And CEO, Talks Criticism, Fears". Interview with Sara Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 27, 2012.

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• From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power of that one heart, brain, gut and soul that makes something an original piece of writing.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Writing, Heart, Views

  "I felt I had befouled myself" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2004.

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