Teammate Quotes

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  I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.

  Mia Hamm

  Sports, Volleyball, Cheerleading

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• To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one another.

  John C. Maxwell

  Success, Teamwork, Team Building

  John C. Maxwell (2006). “The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player: Becoming the Kind of Person Every Team Wants”, p.14, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

  Mia Hamm

  Soccer, Teamwork, Motivational Sports

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• With an enthusiastic team you can achieve almost anything.

  Tahir Shah

  Teamwork, Achievement, Team Building

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• We can control a few things: our attitude, our effort, our focus and how we go about treating our teammates.

  Tim Tebow

  Attitude, Focus, Effort

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• Only by binding together as a single force will we remain strong and unconquerable.

  Chris Bradford

  Teamwork, Strong, Team Building

  Chris Bradford (2010). “The Way of the Dragon (Young Samurai, Book 3): The Way of the Dragon”, p.194, Penguin UK

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• Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Leadership, Loyalty

  "Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy". Book by Joseph P. Lash, 1980.

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• Teammates are there for each other even after the noise of the crowd is gone.

  Jim Brown

  Success, Sports, Teamwork

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• You stand up for your teammates. Your loyalty is to them. You protect them through good and bad, because they'd do the same for you.

  Yogi Berra

  Loyalty, Good And Bad, Protect

  Yogi Berra (2001). “When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes”

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• I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

  Kobe Bryant

  Inspirational, Basketball, Attitude

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  The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I’d made my teammates play.

  Bill Russell

  Basketball, Nba, Games

  Bill Russell, Taylor Branch (1980). “Second wind: the memoirs of an opinionated man”

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• The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

  Babe Ruth

  Leadership, Basketball, Teamwork

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

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• Accept your teammates for what they are and inspire them to become all they can be.

  Robin Sharma

  Success, Inspire, Accepting

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• I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.

  Mia Hamm

  Teamwork, Volleyball, Cheerleading

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• I never rushed the fact that I wanted to be in the NBA or rushed the fact, you know, they asked me about the NBA. I always (unintelligible) back to the fact that I just love playing with my teammates.

  LeBron James

  Nba, Facts, Wanted

  "Lebron James: 'More Than A Game' - Part II". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. October 15, 2009.

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• Anyone who loves his opinions more than his teammates will advance his opinions but set back his team.

  John C. Maxwell

  Team, Opinion

  John C. Maxwell (2006). “The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player: Becoming the Kind of Person Every Team Wants”, p.107, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Your teammates will stretch your vision or choke your dream.

  John C. Maxwell

  Dream, Vision, Choke

  John C. Maxwell (2002). “Teamwork Makes the Dream Work”, p.46, Thomas Nelson

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• We're not winning because of talent. We're just beating bad teams.

  Michael Jordan

  Team, Winning, Talent

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• If you pass the ball to Bill Cartwright, you'll never get the ball from me.

  Michael Jordan

  Balls, Bills, Ifs

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• Any teammate of mine that had a kid and a boy that was capable of playing baseball, I think I set a terrific example of 'Don't do this' and 'Don't do that.' And that's one of the things that I'm most proud of.

  Bob Uecker

  Baseball, Kids, Thinking

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• Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.

  Larry Bird

  Leadership, Basketball, Believe

  Larry Bird (1990). “Drive: The Story of My Life”, Bantam Books

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• We're beating a lot of poor teams. So what? We won a lot of games last year, too. Will Horace and Bill still be playing at this level in the playoffs...Can Pip keep it up?

  Michael Jordan

  Team, Years, Games

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• It's probably a twelve-day. He needs two days to wake up.

  Michael Jordan

  Two, Twelve, Needs

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• My own little rule was two for one. If one of my teammates got knocked down, then I knocked down two on the other team.

  Don Drysdale

  Team, Two, Littles

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• I enjoyed being a teammate of Deion Sanders. He brings different elements to the game that many people would not even realize, and to watch and witness a superior talent like him and watch him prepare and train, and study the game is truly amazing.

  Emmitt Smith

  Games, People, Different

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