Browsing Topic Best Team Quotes

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

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

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

Business is a game, and as with all games, the team that puts the best people on the field and gets them playing together wins. It’s that simple.

If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they’ve had a bad day.

Protecting underperformers always backfires.

You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.

The greatest players fit with the team. They play within the team’s style, rather than asking the team to change its style.

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.

I think the extreme complexity of medicine has become more than an individual clinician can handle. But not more than teams of clinicians can handle.

Rahul Dravid is a player who would walk on broken glass if his team asks him to

The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what’s in a box score. A box score does not properly represent the most important thing – team play. It shows some guy scoring 27 points, but it doesn’t show that my 27-point man let his guy score 30.

Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.

In 1976 I was working in the Gulf Country around Cape York, in an aboriginal community of about 300 people. The Health Department sent around a team and vaccinated about 100 of them against flu. Six were dead within 24 hours or so and they weren’t all old people, one man being in his early twenties. They threw the bodies in trucks to take to the coast where autopsies were done. It appeared they had died from heart attacks.

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

I never would say a player stinks. Ever. I’ll tell you their team stinks, and first of all, they know their team stinks. And the fans know their team stinks.

Everyone’s got unfinished business with Barcelona. They’re the greatest team in the world.

A team will always appreciate a great individual if he’s willing to sacrifice for the group.

In difficult circumstances, teams either separate or come closer together, it’s as simple as that

A small team of A+ players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players.

Commitment to the team – there is no such thing as in-between, you are either in our out.

In my parents I saw a model where they were really always communicating, doing things together. They were really kind of a team. I wanted some of that magic myself.

It’s all about the attitude, gut, heart and determination to go out and give 120% every time to try and help the team win.

As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.

You start with what you believe in. I believe in building a football club rather than building a football team.

One training device is the ergometer. I never owned one, never trained on one, and practically never used one. The few national team tests I took on ergs were dismal failures, which worked wonders to further my dislike of these beastly creatures. Boring. Tedious. Noisy. Ergs have greatly cheapened rowing. Graceless. Greasy. Grim. The erg is to rowing what having sex by yourself is to having sex. Stop it!

Stonehenge had an aura but it was also just stone. Then in the sixties, it became a great hedonistic, hippie, druid, rock-n-roll party site. There are amazing pictures of people up on the stones going wild and that’s the image I recreated for my model of the project: full access to everyone. I even invented a Stonehenge soccer team that uses spaces between the stones as goals.

I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.

Sure, sometimes guys pass you up in salary, and maybe it’s a lesser player, but it’s all based on what a team has as far as value in that person.

Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger.

I think the ability to motivate might be interpreted as the ability to lead, or to show people their goals or, perhaps more important, what their potential is – as a person as well as a player. You’ve got to show players that being part of a team will carry over to the experience of becoming part of society.