A Team Sports Quotes

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

Jamie Bamber

#2. It turns out that life in the kitchen is very similar to life on a team. Sports and kitchens are about teams. I found my alternate team sport in the kitchen.

Wylie Dufresne

#3. I'm not a team sports person type person, so I probably would have been good at tennis, because I like tennis. But my parents really didn't push me. I think if my parents would have guided me and stay committed, I could have played any sport I wanted to, but I never did.

Laila Ali

#4. New York City revived around the team. I don't think you can look at the recovery of New York from the 1970s without, on some level, talking about Steinbrenner. Even if you're just talking about the feel of the city, he was part of a creation of a new sense of optimism.

Jonathan Mahler

#5. One single great player doesn't make anything for a team; it has to be a team. I think [American] football is the greatest team sport there is because you have to depend on your brother next to you.

Tim Tebow

#6. That's the nature of sport, if you look at how Europe has performed they have found a way to win but golf is cyclical and there's not much between the teams.

Darren Clarke

#7. I hated golf when we first started, but a big part of the training process was falling in love with this sport, so I went on tour with the UCLA Team.

Shia Labeouf

#8. In this sense, a business is far more like a sports team than a family.

Reid Hoffman

#9. HBO is undeniably a leader in meaningful storytelling in a wide array of formats. I'm honored to join the REAL SPORTS team and look forward to continuing my fervor for uncovering unique and impactful stories.

Soledad O'Brien

#10. Sports are an acceptable way for men to show emotion. A guy who won't hug his kid will slip a guy a tongue in a sports bar when his team wins.

Richard Jeni

#11. I love sports. I was an athlete in high school, and my school was so small we didn't have a football team, so it's the one sport I didn't bother to learn the rules to because I never went to game.

Katie Aselton

#12. We're a team, and just by the nature of our sport, we're always promoted together. I think we are definitely two different people with two different personalities, but we're always linked.

Misty May-Treanor

#13. He'd done it again. Screwed up in a social situation and dragged the whole team down with hm. His new team. The ones who were counting on him to be a leader on and off the field. He'd led them, all right, almost into a brawl.

Jami Davenport

#14. Giving the cat a name, like marriage, is not an easy thing. Soon I experienced the selection of name for a baby, a dog, a book, a warship, a sports team, even the king, the pope or a hurricane is just child's play compared to the selection of the cat's name.

Cleveland Amory

#15. Strategy is not a solo sport, even if you're the CEO.

Max McKeown

#16. I was a huge athlete as a kid. I was on every sports team.

Bonnie Bassler

#17. As a sophomore, I wanted to play varsity in three sports. And I accomplished that. It was a great feat that year, and something I held special. I wanted to bring a championship team to Oceanside High School, and it happened. It was a great year that I will never forget.

Junior Seau

#18. Tennis is such an individual and competitive sport, but it is great being part of a team and getting to know the girls outside of tennis - even though we are all competing for the same thing!

Dominika Cibulkova

#19. In the 1970s, professional sports found a different breed of team owner in George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees.

Don Yaeger

#20. I played team sport as a kid and loved it. I played basketball and football throughout high school into college in the intramurals and I loved it. There was nothing like a team.

Tom Watson

#21. 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

#22. I'm honored and excited to be chosen to lead MLSE, a world-class sports and entertainment organization with the major league teams, premier facilities and employee team that rank with the very best across North America and internationally.

Tim Leiweke

#23. Once you become an owner of a team, you get so much more into the sport and you can't help it. So I really love NFL football now to the degree of following it much more than I did previously.

Paul Allen

#24. As someone who played a team sport, I feel a bit uncomfortable being ranked as an individual so high

Franz Beckenbauer

#25. I grew up in a town with a great wrestling tradition. Then I was a team sport queen in high school; I played softball, volleyball, and soccer. Oh, and I also did ski racing.

Aimee Mullins

#26. 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

#27. Being an Olympic Medalist was a team effort. So I am honored to be a part of CBS Sports' WE NEED TO TALK cast of iconic women. Being part of a show with some of my broadcasting and sports idols is an honor.

Dara Torres

#28. We had a good team on paper. Unfortunately, the game was played on grass.

Brian Clough

#29. I talked to the team a lot about staying power. You never find out if you have that until you've been beaten down a few times.

Bill Parcells

#30. Being a soldier [in the wars of modern power politics] was like being on a team in a sport that drew no crowds, except for the players' own parents and friends.

Dan Wakefield

#31. We don't choose our freaks, they choose us ... We may not understand why we freak on a particular food or band or sports team. We may have no conscious control over out allegiances, But they arise from our most scared fears and desires and, as such, they represent the truest expression of ourselves.

Steve Almond

#32. If a team intimidate you physically and you let them, they've won.

Mia Hamm

#33. I have a fond place in my heart for Seattle, so I hope that an NBA team comes back to this great city, this great sports city.

Magic Johnson

#34. I'm thrilled, I'm grateful, I'm blessed. I played for the world's greatest professional sports team in history. Once a Dallas Cowboy, always a Dallas Cowboy.

Bob Hayes

#35. When I got cut from the varsity team as a sophomore in high school, I learned something. I knew I never wanted to feel that bad again. I never wanted to have that taste in my mouth, that hole in my stomach. So I set a goal of becoming a starter on the varsity.

Michael Jordan

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

Bud Wilkinson

#37. Faded like morning fog in the rising sun, sports team logo on a cheap T-shirt, ninety-nine dollar paint job on a Chevy.

Dennis Vickers

#38. A smart entrepreneur knows they cannot run a business on their own. They know that business is a team sport.

Robert Kiyosaki

#39. Two things are always happening in acting. On the one hand, it's a team sport. We're all pulling together. But on the other, you have to look after your own character. Guard their interests.

Domhnall Gleeson

#40. When it comes to anything that's social, whether it's your family, your school, your community, your business or your country, winning is a team sport.

William J. Clinton

#41. I was fortunate enough to have baseball to teach me the values relative to success. The sport gifted me with leadership and team building skills that translate in a relatable way in the world.

Willie Wilson

#42. It bothers me when I hear these reporters and jocks get on TV and say: 'Oh, no guy can come out in a team sport. These guys would go crazy.' First of all, quit telling me what I think. I'd rather have a gay guy who can play than a straight guy who can't play.

Charles Barkley

#43. We bought good footballers. But many haven't got it, that football is a running and fighting sport. Against Bayern every team outdoes itself. And we do too little to counter that ... We need a couple of attack dogs. Sometimes I sit on the bench and think, 'Man, is this a friendly match?'

Otto Rehhagel

#44. Band members have a special bond. A great band is more than just some people working together. It's like a highly specialized army unit, or a winning sports team. A unique combination of elements that becomes stronger together than apart.

Steven Van Zandt

#45. When I'm playing a team sport, it's not about one individual, it's about everyone, from me to the other 23 people who were there, to all the support staff who've worked very hard behind the scenes.

Gautam Gambhir

#46. This team just wasn't good enough today, but they had the unity I always wanted. To have an American team like this has always been a dream of mine.

Bela Karolyi

#47. I believe in work, in connections between the players, I think what makes football great is that it is a team sport. You can win in different ways, by being more of a team, or by having better individual players. It is the team ethic that interests me, always.

Arsene Wenger

#48. Animation, by necessity, is a team sport, and the fewer people with input into my work, the better I like it.

Bill Watterson

#49. I took some important things with me from sports. Rock and roll is a team sport. You're only as good as your weakest link.

Jon Bon Jovi

#50. The last few years I became a lot more into sports. Growing up, the sports I liked were independent sports, like skateboarding. I was really into skateboarding, and not necessarily team televised sports.

Mark Hoppus

#51. When building a team, I always search first for people who love to win. If I can't find any of those, I look for people who hate to lose.

Ross Perot

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

Emmitt Smith

#53. 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

#54. Today, we are the only people who are more likely to own a professional sports team than to play for one.

Celso Cukierkorn

#55. What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.

Jeffrey Katzenberg

#56. 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

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

Biz Stone

#58. To me, doing the Olympics in 1992 in Barcelona for NBC, just seeing the Dream Team take the floor, was a thrill for me. I don't think there was another team in any sport with that high level of athletes playing together.

Marv Albert

#59. Every guy should have a fantasy sports team.

Genesis Rodriguez

#60. Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

Jim Bouton

#61. It's always good to bat at the top, where you get more opportunities, but sometimes crucial 30s and 40s can be very helpful for the team. Ultimately it is a team sport. Personal records don't matter much if your team ends up on the losing side.

Suresh Raina

#62. I think they need to get a more reliable way of watching television on the laptop. Because I travel so much, if I want to watch my favorite sports team it might not be showing in that place, so I want a reliable way to watch whatever I want to watch on my laptop.

John Legend

#63. The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones.

Lou Holtz

#64. We've seen the kind of social impact a professional sports team has on a city. A team brings high-profile role models into your community who are healthy and they're great images for the city to gravitate toward, especially for kids.

Mick Cornett

#65. You know, I never looked down the road and said, 'Hey look, one day, the Hall of Fame.' It's always about playing each and every game 100 percent and I thank my teammates for getting me into the Hall because football is a team sport, not an individual sport.

Jerry Rice

#66. Life is too precious to be a spectator sport. We are no longer merely fans, rooting for the winning team. We are the team. We are the grown-ups. Whatever you believe is true, now is the time to give your respectful, inquisitive, and compassionate self to it.

Vicki Robin

#67. Isn't cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport.

Sachin Tendulkar

#68. I was like a local sports team; they were the fans in the stadium seats. They cheered. They booed. They stood and did the Wave. The bond was palpable, maniacal, and maybe the most important thing about the experience.

Caroline Paul

#69. A vital team characteristic is the ability to overcome adversity. Any team acquires experience and endurance as it learns to fight back. This in turn builds the kind of character which seldom crumbles at a time of crisis or testing.

Tom Landry

#70. In 10 years, I'm gonna be all over. I'll still be doing mad music, I'll be doing a couple movies, maybe some TV. Hopefully coaching some of my son's sports teams and be in heavy daddy mode.

Shwayze

#71. Billy Beane was a guy who had been devalued by the sport as a player and now is working as a GM for a small-market team.There is such a gulf in what these teams have to spend on talent [that] they can never play equally - they can never have a true competition.

Brad Pitt

#72. I used to play sports in school, but it was hard to do that because you're part of a team and you don't want to let your team down.

Elle Fanning

#73. I play with a fear of letting my team down. That's what motivates me.

Jonny Wilkinson

#74. Football is a team sport and not an individual sport. We win as a team, and every individual is better if we are part of the team.

Fernando Torres

#75. Guys care about sports teams. I'm not talking about simply rooting; I'm talking about a relationship that guys develop, a commitment to a sport team that guys take way more seriously than, for example, wedding vows.

Dave Barry

#76. Go my favorite sports team go! Score a goal. Unit. Basket. Go squadron! Defeat the opponents soundly in this ... skirmish.

Brian Regan

#77. Why should we not shep naches from the accomplishments of our machines? This vicarious joy or success sounds somewhat odd, but it shouldn't be. We get excited when our sports team wins a game; why should it disturb or disappoint us when our creations turn out to be more accomplished than ourselves?

China Mieville

#78. What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing.

Rahul Dravid

#79. Confidence is the invisible cement that binds a team together.

Bud Wilkinson

#80. A fan without a team is like a hog without truffles - she has nothing to root for.

Carol Tavris

#81. Anytime you've got an opportunity to play for your country and win a gold medal, I think that takes it all. That's the greatest thing you could ever achieve in your sport. So, I have been very fortunate to play on great teams, but the gold medal was probably the best.

Larry Bird

#82. Football is an honest game. It's true to life. It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life.

Joe Namath

#83. Anytime you play a team sport, the success of the team really makes everything better. It's nice.

Ricky Williams

#84. Baseball is a team sport played by individuals for themselves.

Joe Torre

#85. Every member of our baseball team at West Point became a general: this proves the value of team sports.

Omar N. Bradley

#86. I know when I have kids, when I'm older, I'm going to encourage them to play sports because I think it teaches you a lot. It teaches you discipline, teamwork, and that there's really no 'I' in team.

Gregg Sulkin

#87. 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

#88. Yankee caps pop up all over the world, not as a statement of loyalty to that team, but as a symbol of - what? Winning 27 so-called World Series? Much of the world doesn't even play that sport.

George Vecsey

#89. My first act after being named head coach of the Bulls was to formulate a vision for the team. I had to take into account not only what I wanted to achieve, but how I was going to get there.

Phil Jackson

#90. All the athletes are individuals. This isn't a team sport. We all have our own styles, our own clothing preferences and our own way of doing things. That's the way I do things and I'm proud of it.

Nick Goepper

#91. It was what made him good at team sports: soccer, basketball, politics. Miller

James S.A. Corey

#92. I've liked the Yankees since I was a kid. I grew up in Canada so I kind of identified with New York sports teams.

Ian Astbury

#93. It's interesting. I've known quite a few good athletes that can't begin to play a beat on the drum set. Most team sport is about the smooth fluidity of hand-eye coordination and physical grace, where drumming is much more about splitting all those things up.

Neil Peart

#94. Some teachers feel that if they ask for emotional help, they're a failure. But teaching is a team sport.

Erin Gruwell

#95. I had no idea what was in store for me this season. This is the first time I've been a part of a true team sport, and there's someone else counting on you. You can't let that person down, and that's what drives me.

Lauryn Williams

#96. Winning as a team is better than anything. It's great to share success.

Jim Harbaugh

#97. To be as good as it can be, a team has to buy into what you as the coach are doing. They have to feel you're a part of them and they're a part of you.

Bobby Knight

#98. When I was a kid I used to hate getting picked for team sports. It would be the fit and sporty guys over there. And me and the fat kids over here. Those kids were fat! One girl had to be cut out a hula hoop.

Alan Carr

#99. In a team sport like basketball, every time you help somebody else, you help yourself.

Pete Carril

#100. I definitely want to direct. This is just another learning experience for me, to get a chance to hear the questions and concerns the directors have, some of their fears. It's a team sport. You have to give everybody what they need so they are able to perform at their best.

Michael B. Jordan