Team Quotes - Page 8

• I can let the team do the talking for me.

  Bob Paisley

  Talking, Let Me, I Can

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• I came in with a healthy skepticism about these programs. My team evaluated them. We scrubbed them thoroughly. We actually expanded some of the oversight, increased some of the safeguards. But my assessment, and my team's assessment was that they help us prevent terrorist attacks. In the abstract, you can complain about 'Big Brother' and how this is a potential program run amok. But when you actually look at the details, then, I think we've struck the right balance.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Brother, Thinking

  Obama's Remarks on Health Care and Surveillance, www.nytimes.com. June 7, 2013.

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• If a player demonstrated that he is the best, and a team decides, even so, we don't want to pay him, as in any other business, he should be able to play elsewhere.

  Lynn Swann

  Sports, Player, Want

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• The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn't really compete against another team.

  Cal Thomas

  Sports, Differences, Competition

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• At the end of the day, the team you build is the company you build.

  Steve Case

  The End Of The Day, Ends, Company

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• I am excited to rise today to support National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day. This celebration honors the husband and wife business owner teams whose work helps drive the economy and fuel job growth.

  Melissa Bean

  Mom, Jobs, Husband

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• Coaches are basically schizophrenic. We are pessimistic to the press and among fellow coaches, but to our team, we are the eternal optimists.

  Jim Valvano

  Attitude, Pessimistic, Optimist

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• The single greatest demotivator of a team is having members who are not carrying their load.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Monday, Morning

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• Everything you do matters because your team is watching ... and depending on you to do the right thing.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Monday, Morning

  David Cottrell (2002). “Monday Morning Leadership: 8 Mentoring Sessions You Can't Afford to Miss”, p.49, CornerStone Leadership Inst

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• If your focus is always changing, expect confusion to be rampant on your team.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Monday, Morning

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• Your team has entrusted a portion of their life to you, and it's your job to help them grow, personally and professionally.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Monday, Morning

  David Cottrell (2002). “Monday Morning Leadership: 8 Mentoring Sessions You Can't Afford to Miss”, p.75, CornerStone Leadership Inst

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• There's nothing better than a team that comes out of nowhere and finds themselves in the World Series.

  Tom Glavine

  World, World Series, Series

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• Jocelyn Bell joined the project as a graduate student in 1965, helping as a member of the construction team and then analysing the paper charts of the sky survey.

  Antony Hewish

  Sky, Paper, Bells

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• When tragedy strikes, no one is fully prepared to deal effectively with all the responsibilitie s, emotional trauma, and grief that begin to impact people. Our Rapid Response Team exists so that people can find the care and comfort of Jesus Christ in the midst of tragedy.

  Billy Graham

  Jesus, Grief, Emotional

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• Complacency is the last hurdle standing between any team and its potential greatness.

  Pat Riley

  Greatness, Complacency, Lasts

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• What's odd is that nobody in my family is an artist. My cousins are like secretaries at law firms or nurses or just more blue collar. And I was in a baseball team. I used to be like a really big tomboy.

  Melonie Diaz

  Baseball, Cousin, Artist

  "Fruitvale Station‘s Melonie Diaz On Getting “Comfortable” With Michael B. Jordan". Interview with Meghan O'Keefe, www.vh1.com. July 12, 2013.

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• At least 80 percent of the success of the football team is determined by the fight and spirit that they put into their play.

  George Halas

  Football, Fighting, Play

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• I don't care how I got here. In the books, when you look at it 10 or 20 years from now, it's not going say how he got here, it's going to say he's here and he represented the team.

  Vince Carter

  Book, Years, Looks

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• Because, they're only thinking about one team when that game's over. Before the game, they're talking about two football teams. When the game's over, there's only one winner.

  Don Shula

  Sports, Football, Thinking

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• The word that best sums up this team is sacrifice.

  Hugh Douglas

  Sacrifice

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• I earned the right to get in the team, and fought every game to be in it.

  Graham Roberts

  Games

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• The SSRC committee turned attention from team research for building a model of the United States to doing one for world trade in order to investigate the international transmission mechanism.

  Lawrence Klein

  Order, United States, Attention

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• What you don't want to do is to hang on to the aging superstar past his prime and take resources away you can otherwise use to build a better overall team.

  Tom Hicks

  Past, Use, Want

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• The rider and the team need to understand one another and work in the same direction. Then the rider's happy, and only then will the rider be able to give 100%.

  Sete Gibernau

  Giving, Needs, Able

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• NBC is working with a team of astrophysicists to create a new day of the week.

  Dave Foley

  Nbc, New Day, Week

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. April 15, 2002.

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