Team Quotes

International soccer has been a big part of my love for the sport. I love the Men's National Team. I can say that they're my favorite sports team.

~ Drew Carey

Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don't need a partner to go running, you don't need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers.

~ Haruki Murakami

I had come across a few sports psychologists, and I had no time for nearly all of them. I just don't think they work in a team environment.

~ Brian O'driscoll

I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize.

~ Warren Farrell

Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.

~ Warren Farrell

When I think about dropping team sports and picking up surfing and also then geeking out radio control planes and gadgetry and all that stuff I love, that's what really now has led me in big part to GoPro.

~ Nick Woodman

I love team sports.

~ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

You get into sports with the idea that you want to win. If you aren't trying to win, what's the point in being involved? Once you do get involved, you realize the team draws so much from the community, and it would be nothing without the support of it. You've got to give back. It needs to be a two-way street.

~ Jerry Reinsdorf

I don't feel 50. I'm still ambitious, and I've only just got my licence to race sports cars. I race for an Aston Martin team called Beechdean, and it's a huge challenge.

~ Paul Hollywood

When we grew up, we wanted to do two things: to own a sports team and a casino.

~ Dan Gilbert

I've got to be honest and say that, growing up, I wasn't a big sports guy, but I love the camaraderie. I just love people getting together, fighting for a team and getting super-emotional about it.

~ Aaron Paul

I was on the snowboard team at my school, but that was the only sports team I was on. I played soccer growing up in elementary school.

~ Aaron Paul

When it comes to matters of pro sports, politics or palate, disparate sides claim their party, team and cola to be superior.

~ Jen Lancaster

I can't divorce myself from my childhood. I try to write as much fiction as I possibly can, but there are so many things that are touchstones of my childhood like being on the swim team and playing soccer and the particularities of sports season and environments that make their way into my books.

~ Jeff Kinney

The great thing coming from sports is you understand the concept of a team. It leaves no room for being selfish, and that's something I picked up from home.

~ Michael Strahan

The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends despite my ineptitude at team sports and my preference for reading.

~ Harold E. Varmus

I was a team sports guy, but I don't do that anymore. When I work out, it's alone.

~ Jamie Bamber

I am very slow to warm. I've always been sort of a loner. I didn't play team sports. I am better one-on-one than in big groups.

~ Rooney Mara

I didn't like books where people played on a sports team and won a bunch of games, or went to summer camp and had a wonderful time. I really liked a book where a witch might cut a child's head off or a pack of angry dogs might burst through a door and terrorize a family.

~ Daniel Handler

If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives, and give them carte blanche.

~ Brian Eno

When humans team up with computers to play chess, the humans who do best are not necessarily the strongest players. They're the ones who are modest and who know when to listen to the computer. Often, what the human adds is knowledge of when the computer needs to look more deeply.

~ Tyler Cowen

I have sometimes thought the power of computers had exceeded our ability to use them, but Mr. Jobs and his team kept giving us devices that made indispensable things easier in ways you never thought of.

~ Andrew Rosenthal

A wide variety of devices beyond personal computers are arriving, many of which will be used to browse the Web... The Flash engineering team has taken this on with a major overhaul of the mainstream Flash Player for a variety of devices.

~ Kevin Lynch

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

~ Vince Lombardi

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

~ John C. Maxwell

When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.

~ Russel Honore

Creating something that builds lasting value and changes the lives of millions of people requires forging a team that will work hard to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles, stand up to the pressures of fame and fortune, and stay true to the original vision long after others stop believing.

~ Jay Samit

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

~ Stephen Covey

Yet as a team, we can pull together to do some incredible work.

~ Randy West

When you delegate work to the member of the team, your job is to clearly frame success and describe the objectives.

~ Steven Sinofsky

The work of a team should always embrace a great player but the great player must always work.

~ Alex Ferguson

The true fans were capable of not only painting their cars and homes their team colors, but also naming family pets and offspring after famous NFL all-stars.

~ Burgess Owens

It is pure mythology that women cannot perform as well as men in science, engineering and mathematics. In my experience, the opposite is true: Women are often more adept and patient at untangling complex problems, multitasking, seeing the possibilities in new solutions and winning team support for collaborative action.

~ Weili Dai

My dad, who was a teacher, used to tell me that a teacher's goal should be for every one of their students to get an A. If that's your goal every day - to make every student or player learn - then it doesn't matter if you won last year or didn't win. When next year's team shows up, I try to help every player become as good as they can be.

~ Tony Dungy

When people think of the word 'drive,' they often think you have it or you don't, and that's where we're wrong. Drive is something that can be encouraged by a wonderful teacher, by a terrific classroom environment, by an awesome soccer team that you are on, and it can be squashed as well.

~ Angela Duckworth

After doing 'Firefly' and moving on, I always wanted to be part of a series again. I love doing films, too, but there's just something special about being part of the team and feeling like you're actually a part of the family, and I always look to re-create that.

~ Summer Glau

We can't all be good at everything. This is partly the logic behind having a team in the first place, so each role can be filled with the person best suited for that role and together, every job and every strength is covered.

~ Simon Sinek

You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.

~ Steve Case

The lessons I learned from the dark days at Alibaba are that you've got to make your team have value, innovation, and vision. Also, if you don't give up, you still have a chance. And, when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength.

~ Jack Ma

Gene Roddenberry continually reminded us that the Star Trek Enterprise was a metaphor for starship Earth. And the strength in this starship came from its diversity, coming together and working in concert as a team. That is the strength of our countries, Canada and the United States. We are nations of diversity.

~ George Takei