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Our Team Quotes

You can't do anything to help your team win when you don't play.
- Freddy Adu

I told Clinton I want him to rush for 2,000 yards. And I want our team to go to the Super Bowl and win it. I've been there and not won it. It's really simple for me. You get stats, fame and fortune, but if you don't end up with the ring you're never satisfied.
- Shaun Alexander

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

It's always hard - if you're not the best player on your team, how can you be the best player in college?
- Marcus Allen

If you're in the best team in the world, you or your teammate have to win.
- Fernando Alonso

If you respect the art and you have some talent about you, I'm on your team.
- Anthony Anderson

There was a pause, and then Damien said, "I nominate Erik Night."
Shaunee rolled her eyes.
Erin said, "Okay, how many times do we have to explain this to you--the boy is not on your team. He likes breasts and vaginas, not penises and anu--"
"Stop!" I absolutely did not want to get off on this subject. "I think Erik Night is a good choice, and not because he likes me or, well..
- P C Cast

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

Our team has a lot of talent. I hope that soon we will break out with four or five goals and avoid overtime.
- Peter Bondra

The people in the villages had turned in on themselves. You can understand it. When you have a bad day on the field, what do you do? Talk to your teammates.
- Ian Botham

Bad attitudes will ruin your team.
- Terry Bradshaw

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

Obviously if Gates turns out missing the first game because of this, that's disappointing for everyone in this locker room because he is big part of our team and we don't want to see that happen.
- Drew Brees

Unlike the escapee, your team of hunters will be out during the brightest, hottest, most excruciating part of the day. Make sure each hunter is well supplied with water and antisunstroke accessories.
- Max Brooks

You really just have to come in and build the spirit up of your team by working them everyday, showing them examples of what they've done and reinforce their work.
- Scott Brooks

I've never talked to our guys about being young. That's an easy crutch to fall on. You really just have to come in and build the spirit up of your team by working them everyday, showing them examples of what they've done and reinforce their work.
- Scott Brooks

Our team is good at getting dressed real quick, because we're the type of team that wears their uniforms all day.
- Jim Carroll

I will do everything in my power to make sure people are aware that our team is out there fighting the good fight for the tennis fans of the United States.
- Jim Courier

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don't forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.
- Stephen Covey

But with rap music - not just N.W.A. - but rap music in general, seeing these artists wearing these team logos all the time started bringing a synergy and energy about having to rep your city, your team, everywhere and all the time.
- Ice Cube

We're just being ourselves and having fun playing baseball. The biggest thing is when people look at our team, they can see that we're having a lot of fun.
- Johnny Damon

It's getting better and better. You know, guys are feeling more comfortable and they are not afraid to speak up and be a leader. I mean, our team, we have 25 players, we have about 25 leaders, too. So whatever someone says, people listen.
- Johnny Damon

I think it's an extremely important factor to have your team together. It goes back to having distractions. When you all stay together for a period of time you're not training people or feeling out different personalities.
- Larry Dixon

The championship always goes to the team that wins the most rounds and is the most prepared. I think everybody on our team works hard towards keeping that goal. Time will tell if we're prepared or not.
- Larry Dixon

The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.
- Tony Dungy

This is a team of gay dudes, isn't it?
What gave it away? The pink shirts, or half our team drooling over you?
- Simone Elkeles

If you're a sports fan you realize that when you meet somebody, like a girlfriend, they kind of have to root for your team. They don't have a choice.
- Jimmy Fallon

The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal.
- Mitch Gaylord

I think that from the time you start playing sports as a child you see that your responsibility to your team is to play the best that you can play as an individual... and yet, not take anything away from being part of a team.
- Wayne Gretzky

I really believe the only thing you can control in those situations is what you do as a player but also how you interact with your teammates, which is critical.
- Brian Griese

I don't know how you keep the world record holder off your team.
- Ryan Hall

If the right people do the right things, we can walk, we can have a future. But if people don't put time into it to make it run in a right way, I don't think your team will work.
- Tim Hardaway

Your team has to understand that coming into the ABA, you have to have your investments right and sponsorships and people ready to give you money so they can back you up.
- Tim Hardaway

When your team drops out, you make the ABA look bad.
- Tim Hardaway

When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.
- Lebron James

I'm not going to fight because I mean too much to our team, and I can't afford to be suspended for a game or do something stupid to get me kicked out of a playoff game.
- Lebron James

Once you get on the playing field it's not about whether you're liked or not liked. All that matters is to play at a high level and do whatever it takes to help your team win. That's what it's about.
- Lebron James

Your teammates give you the confidence. They give me the confidence all year, all postseason.
- Lebron James

Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.
- Magic Johnson

There are several insights at the heart of the A's system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it's a team game. That no one player is going to make that much of a difference to your team, so for god's sake don't go blow a quarter of your budget on one guy.
- Michael Lewis

If you two were going to be that obvious about it, why didn't you guys come down in your Team Daniel and Team Miles T-shirts?"
"We should order those," Shelby said.
"Mine's in the laundry," Arriane said.
- Lauren Kate

We have a great sense of togetherness. It is our team spirit that has taken us to this World Cup.
- Robbie Keane

There are one-hundred fifty-four games in a season and you can find one-hundred fifty-four reasons why your team should have won every one of them.
- Bill Klem

And then '74 as I mentioned and then the 1990 world cup was our team was the team of the reunification you know, so we were the team for both sides of Germany so now, you know throughout the last 16 years, we've melted together. And now comes the next milestone.
- Jurgen Klinsmann

Well, unless you're Wayne Gretzky or Michael Jordan, you need the full support of your team.
- Greg Louganis

In baseball, when you get into the batter's box, that's it. It's just you. It's one man against the world. All that matters in that moment is your individual achievement and your individual skill. There is literally nothing that anyone else on your team can do for you. Hell, they're all sitting on the bench, waiting to see what happens, just like the fans in the crowd! It's just you and your bat.
And the ball.
- Barry Lyga

No matter what side of the spectrum you're on, you like to see your team fighting for the principle.
- Bob Mcdonnell

There's a certain - there's a different pressure with playing in a Ryder Cup. You know, you're not just playing for yourself. You're playing for your teammates. You're playing for your country.
- Rory Mcilroy

That makes me think of the 2002 World Cup Final above all else. Nobody thought at the time that our team would get through to the Final against Brazil. We should remember that this summer.
- Angela Merkel

If it doesn't know what to charge you for nosebleed seats, your team sucks.
- Jay Mohr

If it has to sell its mascot, your team sucks.
- Jay Mohr

As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.
- Gary Neville

Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.
- Adam Oates

Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.
- Theodore Roosevelt

I was taught you never, ever disrespect your opponent or your teammates or your organization or your manager and never, ever your uniform.
- Ryne Sandberg

I've been the best player on every team that I played on, so if I can't be the poster child of your team, then what else is it? It's got to be a black-white issue. Every white player I know who's the best player on their team is the poster child of that team.
- Gary Sheffield

So you get two good hours on the field about every day, you get about an hour and a half in the meeting room and that's pretty much all you need to thoroughly coach your team.
- Steve Spurrier

So what's your team called?" asked Kate, twisting her legs into a pretzel-like configuration, "We're called the Winmates because we're inmates who win." Kate looked back and forth at Reynie and Constance, searching their expression for signs of delight.
"You gave yourselves a name?" asked Constance.
Now it was Kate's turn to be baffled. "You didn't? How can you have a team without a name?
- Trenton Lee Stewart

We always kept believing in ourselves and our team and the car.
- Sebastian Vettel

You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.
- Earl Weaver

You are only as good as your team.
- Dominique Wilkins

You cannot expect your team to rise above your example.
- Orrin Woodward

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