Team Quotes

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In football, yeah, sometimes you get these multitalented individuals where that's all they want to do: when the team's got the ball, I'll play but, when we haven't got the ball, I'll go and have a rest.

The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.

I don't believe in one-person productions. Everyone on the team is important and needs to know that he or she is vital.

Football is a team sport, and there is no one individual who is bigger than the next person.

Our success has not been a continual series of victories. We have had a number of devastating setbacks; how these are handled is the making of a great team... winning does not happen in straight lines.

There is a strong sense of understanding, appreciation, shared responsibility, and trust that unites and motivates the team to work together.

Begin your bodybuilding lifestyle with an open mind, an open heart, a lot of patience and understanding. With the right discipline and right approach, it could be the sport that teaches you the most about yourself. It's not a team sport. There is nobody else to count on, and you rely heavily on your own will and your ability to gather up the courage to take it on and excel. It's up to you. Is it in you?

A team doesn't win the championship if its players are working from different agendas.

John C. Maxwell

A well-functioning team of adequate people will complete a project almost regardless of the process or technology they are asked to use (although the process and technology may help or hinder them along the way).

Alistair Cockburn

Team members who are not genuinely open with one another about their mistakes and weaknesses make it impossible to build a foundation for trust.

Patrick Lencioni

If your team is filled with people who work for the company, you'll soon be defeated by tribes of people who work for a cause.

Learn. Ceaselessly. Learn to code, to write persuasively, to understand new technologies, to bring out the best in your team, to find underused resources and to spot patterns.

Individual commitment to a group effort— that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Our tactics have always been to equalize before the other team score. Now I think they scored first and then we equalized, but we equalized the second time before they scored.

Danny Blanchflower

Whenever feasible, pick your team on character, not skill. You can teach skills, you can't teach character.

Ranulph Fiennes

If Paris were missing, he'd want the same guys looking for him. Seriously, the only team capable of getting better results would be Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers and Hannibal

Teamwork requires that everyone's efforts flow in a single direction. Feelings of significance happen when a team's energy takes on a life of its own.

Baton Rouge happens to be the worst place in the world for a visiting team. It's like being inside a drum.

We hardly know the limit of intelligence of individuals who can fruitfully contribute to science in one way or another if they are given the proper training – including graduate training – as assistants, as supervised or semi-independent researchers, as team members. Individuals with any of a very broad spectrum of intellectual attributes can contribute to science.

Roland W. Schmitt

To do something really big, let go of your ego, and get ready to be part of a team.

John C. Maxwell

We can change our wives, he said. We can change our jobs, our nationalities and even our religions, but we can never change our team.

Elizabeth Gilbert

The Church attempted to regulate this rather violent society, and eventually a code of honor evolved known as the code of chivalry. (...) Those who aspired to be knights had to have aristocratic ancestors and wealth enough to own warhorses and armor and to provide for a team of supporters.

Marilyn Stokstad

People think I would never take on a team that has no legitimate chance to win a championship, This is one of the major misconceptions about me. Success can be measured in many different ways.... Either way, I would find the challenge invigorating.

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

I was mad last year. I played as well as anyone else on our team and I didn't receive one vote for MVP. Don't get me wrong; I didn't say I was the best last year or that I should have won the MVP award. But nobody seemed to care about me. But you win the batting title yourself. They can't take that away from you.

Roberto Clemente