Top 100 A Winning Team Quotes
#1. Profile of a winning team - They play to win. They have a winning attitude. They keep improving. They make their teammates more successful.
John C. Maxwell
#2. The best way to create a winning team is to train them, give them everything they need to get the job done and second, make sure they know what the job is and what the job will be. So you connect strategy to resources.
Colin Powell
#3. The only difference between a winning team and a losing team is one game. The winning team can win two out of three games ... the losing team can only win one out of three.
Vin Scully
#4. If we can't have a great team and a winning team, then I will not be an N.B.A. owner very long.
Ross Perot Jr.
#5. To build a winning team, you must help your players and staff have amnesia about past outcomes and remember all the little things they did to get better.
Jon Gordon
#6. The old adage that you shouldn't change a winning team doesn't apply in modern international football because managers have to study the opposition and pick players who exploit their weaknesses.
Glenn Hoddle
#7. Things happen in baseball, even if, in theory, it's something you don't do. Stats are a tool, but it doesn't mean that's how a game is being played at that moment. There's more than one way to win a game, or have a winning team.
Jon Miller
#8. To build a winning team you must create a positive culture where negativity can't breed and grow, and the sooner you start weeding it from your team the stronger and more positively contagious your culture and team will be.
Jon Gordon
#9. It's real nice and exciting for me to break the records, but it's more exciting for me to be on a winning team.
Dan Marino
#10. I'm not driven by killer ambition. I'm not a workaholic. I'm a good team player. I don't have to be captain, but I do want to play on a winning team.
Jane Pauley
#11. A winning team feels good and keeps winning. A team that hasn't won in a while gets demotivated and keeps losing.
Sam Altman
#12. It takes a lot of people to make a winning team. Everybody's contribution is important.
Gary David Goldberg
#13. Despite their inglorious end, the legions remain to this day, thousands of years after their creation, the most pre-eminent example of how detailed organization, tight discipline, and inspiring leadership can take a group of individuals and turn them into a winning team.
Stephen Dando-Collins
#14. To me, the team is more important than any individual member of the squad, and the players have to realise that and accept that my priority is to pick a side with the best possible chance of winning each match.
Gerard Houllier
#15. I met Jay Jonhson. I won him the way poor people occasionally win the lottery: Shameless perseverance and embarrassingly dumb luck, and every time I see one of those sly, toothless, beaten-down souls on TV holding a winning ticket, I think, Go, team.
Amy Bloom
#16. Actually, the Kentucky moment was better than winning the two National Championships, because it was the epitome of what I try to get from a team in a crisis situation.
Mike Krzyzewski
#17. We may still have as many questions after the game as we did before the game. But that's OK. Good teams answer their questions as they go, but they do it with wins. We didn't get it done last week - we found a way to get it done this week.
Greg Schiano
#18. To achieve any group goal, individuals must work to improve themselves as a means to improve the group.
George M. Gilbert
#19. The problem here is that unless a team is playing well, winning things, filling their stadia, clubs simply cannot afford to alienate the very
Nick Hornby
#20. I have played on many teams throughout my career, and I know when a team has the tools, and the right positive attitude towards winning.
Boomer Esiason
#21. As his team prepares, a coach's entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
Bobby Knight
#22. If you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.
Michael Jordan
#23. Each individual's success as a solo artist is pretty much a win for the whole team.
Frank Ocean
#24. In my heart of hearts, I thought, if we get a 1-0 win and the team doesn't perform well, that would feel good.
Landon Donovan
#25. The way I figure is we win as a team and we lose as a team, but I've got to figure out some way where I can have a better April and help the team get off to a better start. I normally heat up when it gets warm, but it would be nice to come out of April and everybody is chasing you.
Albert Belle
#26. In a tournament, even though there are team scores, it's calculated and it's a lot more individual. There is more honor to say you're not just better than the opposing schools' wrestler, you're the best wrestler in your weight class. Plus there are lot more awards to win in a tournament.
Bill Vaughan
#27. I wouldn't feel good about it at all. At the end of the day I'm here to win a team prize, and that's to win a championship, not an individual prize.
LeBron James
#28. Teams make it tough on us, we make it tough on them. When you have two well coached teams that wanna win, it's going to be a competitive game.
LeBron James
#29. There will be a time when everyone on the team is going to contribute to winning a pennant.
Joe Torre
#30. A coach's job is to put his team where it can function effectively and win,
Pete Carril
#31. Ideas are easy. Execution is everything. It takes a team to win.
John Doerr
#32. I know what to do when they give me the ball. I know what to do to give this team a chance to win.
Johan Santana
#33. The thing it taught me was that winning's a helluva lot more fun than losing. It also taught me that the team with the best players that worked together the best wins.
Jack Welch
#34. It takes a number of critical factors to win an NBA championship, including the right mix of talent, creativity, intelligence, toughness, and of course, luck. But if a team doesn't have the most essential ingredient - love - none of those other factors matter.
Phil Jackson
#35. Goals have never defined me as a player. What has defined me is my impact on the team. If that means passing or playing defense to win, I'll do it.
Mia Hamm
#36. Coaching is salesmanship. Coaching is winning players over and convincing them they have to play together. It takes a team conviction to play together to make things work.
Phil Jackson
#37. 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
#38. It's a different thing when you play on a team that has to win, that doesn't consider it a good year unless you win the championship
Manu Ginobili
#39. I want to concentrate on winning things with Barcelona and Argentina. Then if people want to say nice things about me when I have retired, great. Right now, I need to concentrate on being part of a team - not just on me.
Lionel Messi
#40. A team wins with the elimination of mistakes and with people who want to win and can't stand losing.
Lou Holtz
#41. 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
#42. This is a team game and one man doesn't win and one man doesn't lose. In the end, the best team usually wins.
Wilt Chamberlain
#43. The third year at a school for any head coach is the most important year for the program they are attempting to develop.
George M. Gilbert
#44. If you keep your team in the game and give them a chance to win each and every start, what could be better than that? That, to me, is my main goal.
Mark Mulder
#45. I think we had to hit rock-bottom in all facets of the program before we could ever start moving in a positive direction.
George M. Gilbert
#46. The Indians franchise is more than a century old. It's been called the Blues, the Bronchos, and the Naps. It's also been called a lot worse during hard times when the team wasn't winning.
Tucker Elliot
#47. I want to feel secure personally. Have a competitive team out there
I really want to win; I hate losing
and, I guess, I want to be treated like a normal person.
Pedro Martinez
#48. You've got to have camaraderie or togetherness on a baseball team if you want to win.
Andy Pettitte
#49. A lot of people talk about the Fab Five, and they were wonderful, one of the best teams you'll ever see in college basketball. But the '89 team is the best one to ever play at Michigan in my opinion because they won the national championship. Winning a championship is winning a championship.
Trey Burke
#50. I don't like to be compared to Joe Jackson. because Joe Jackson, I think, took money to throw World Series games. Well, I know I bet on my own team to win. There's pretty much a big difference there, but both of us were wrong.
Pete Rose
#51. Sometimes, you lose (a game) and sometimes the other team wins.
Otto Rehhagel
#52. Humanity is in my heart. Do I suffer fools? No. Am I a stickler for my profession? Yes. I am a task master? Yes. My military background, football background, I'm a team player all the way, and I love winning.
Isaiah Washington
#53. One of the teams (Tennessee) that jumped us had the same game that we had. They're down, they're playing at home and they win by a field goal. Another team (Florida) that jumped us wasn't even playing. They were home eating cheeseburgers and they end up jumping us. That befuddles me,
Charlie Weis
#54. Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.
Bart Starr
#55. I think what coaching is all about, is taking players and analyzing there ability, put them in a position where they can excel within the framework of the team winning. And I hope that I've done that in my 33 years as a head coach.
Don Shula
#56. We went out there as a team and believed we could win. I am an Olympic champion.
Mark Lewis-Francis
#57. 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
#58. Nothing in life that is of value comes easy. If good things came easily then the value would be diminished. When we have a vested interest, when we give everything we have, then, and only then are those good times valuable.
George M. Gilbert
#59. We are a terrible defensive team right now. We're not putting forth the maximum effort that we need to put forth, especially in our position. You'd think that we'd put forth that maximum effort to not only win the game, but to get a good rhythm to get into the playoffs.
Jermaine O'Neal
#60. And then to end up with a total of 347 wins, averaging 10 regular season wins for 33 years and the best winning percentage, and I'm very proud of this, of any professional team from 1970 to 1996.
Don Shula
#61. The realization that you're not always standing down there on the field merely to win, to be successful, was very liberating. One can be successful by helping the team, the other players. All of a sudden I felt the kind of empathy for people that I hadn't felt before.
Oliver Kahn
#63. Ideally, I would like to be in a position where I represent 100 guys in the NFL, to be in a position where I could control whether some teams win or lose.
Drew Rosenhaus
#64. It's much easier when your team's winning. When your team starts to lose, that's where a lot of these quarterback controversies divide a locker room. The key, as a pro, is to be a pro.
Kurt Warner
#65. It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.
Carol Burnett
#66. When teams win and play well, everyone benefits from a financial standpoint. But everyone takes pride in people being able to achieve at that level.
Brendan Daly
#67. I think the most important thing of all for any team is a winning attitude. The coaches must have it. The players must have it. The student body must have it. If you have dedicated players who believe in themselves, you don't need a lot of talent.
Bear Bryant
#68. I knew the biggest priority was to create a winning culture in which every member could thrive and excel. This meant we would not only have to create the right culture for the team but also for the rest of the organization.
Jon Gordon
#69. Life is like the baseball season, where even the best team loses at least a third of its games, and even the worst team has its days of brilliance. The goal is not to win every game but to win more than you lose, and if you do that often enough, in the end you may find you have won it all.
Harold S. Kushner
#70. 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
#71. Success is not winning the World Cup. It may be a goal in your mind but success is having a team that is improving all the time.
Berti Vogts
#72. After the Cougars' 19-15 Cotton Bowl victory over Kansas State We're the only team in NCAA history to win 14 games in a season. It was just a great experience and I can't say enough about it ... People don't know how difficult it is to get up for 15 games.
LaVell Edwards
#73. The coaches will offer a direction, a plan, routine, discipline and the players must develop the desire to work together accepting their roles as they learn in preparation for the season.
George M. Gilbert
#74. When you're trying to build or change a culture, what do you do? I always say to take players from state championship teams because they only know one thing
winning.
John Calipari
#75. Hornergy' is Zen's term for the indomitable athletic edge powered by sexual restraint. The basketball, baseball and football teams haven't had a winning season in years. The table-tennis team, however, is undefeated.
Megan McCafferty
#76. In all the research you do as a coach, studying other coaches and championship-type situations, you find that all those teams combined talent with great defense. You've got to stop other teams to win.
Pat Riley
#77. Im winning races, Im still challenging for the world championships, the team is fantastic and I have a great relationship with everybody here - so why would I want to even consider changing?
Kimi Raikkonen
#78. Coaches must take calculated risks all the time. One thing is to talk about what you plan to do and another is to prepare and then execute a plan toward change.
George M. Gilbert
#79. Winning as a team is better than anything. It's great to share success.
Jim Harbaugh
#80. The best advice I have is keep writing, keep practicing, keep winning, losing and understanding the difference. Never stop learning, never stop pushing yourself. Then find yourself a team you can work well with and help make awesome things happen.
Rhianna Pratchett
#81. It all depends on how you want to define what an MVP is. I've been fortunate to win the trophy four times, but I've been the MVP of my team for a long time - just because of the way I lead and the way I approach us being professionals off the floor.
LeBron James
#82. If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.
Walter Smith
#83. Scoring a lot of points is not a goal of mine. I just do whatever I do best to help my team win. I'm a role player.
Cartier Martin
#84. I've played long enough to know that certain games are certain ways. You're gonna throw it less in others, more in others, and just look at what the team needs that day to win a football game.
Tony Romo
#85. People don't own teams to lose money. If you ask any owner whether they would rather make $20 million and come in last place or lose $20 million and win a World Series, there's only one guy who honestly would take that championship: George Steinbrenner. Nobody else.
Bronson Arroyo
#86. Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.
Gary Neville
#87. Touchdowns to me means that you're scoring points and helping your team win games. You can have a lot of yards and not have points and not win games. So, this only means something because it has helped our teams win games and we won the division today in a competitive AFC West, that's a good thing.
Peyton Manning
#88. The teams in the Bay Area have created a culture of winning, but the Cubs and Metsneed to learn how to win.
Eric Byrnes
#90. I said to myself I've got to go up there and do it because the New York Mets keep winning every day. The game was on the line and I wanted to go out there and come through for my team. That win tonight means a lot for us.
Sammy Sosa
#91. I think the good news is that our team understands the positon they're in. If they want to win a division or a conference, they're going to have to fix their mistakes.
Les Miles
#92. A team doesn't win the championship if its players are working from different agendas.
John C. Maxwell
#93. Experience tells us that few matches are won on the back of one or two good sessions of play. To win a Test match most teams have to win and outplay the opposition for extended periods of time.
Justin Langer
#94. In order for you to win a game, a lot of things have to go right. Your team has to win. Your team has to perform. When you talk about striking out people or ERA, that's personal stuff and where you show people what kind of pitcher you are.
Johan Santana
#95. The best thing I ever learned in life was that things have to be worked for. A lot of people seem to think there is some sort of magic in making a winning football team. There isn't, but there's plenty of work.
Knute Rockne
#96. There's a very fine line between winning and losing. Every team in the NFL has talent,but attitude is the biggest thing that counts - that, and playing together as a team. If you can capture that feeling, then you'll have success.
Ray Bentley
#97. A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.
David Ogilvy
#98. Any captain can only do his best for the team and for cricket. When you are winning, you are a hero. Lose, and the backslappers fade away.
Richie Benaud
#99. It's funny how the whole team gets quiet when you're about to win a Daytona 500.
Joey Logano
#100. Every team in the NFL is hard, but when we play our own division it's a fight. Our goal is to make it to the playoffs and to do that we have to win games within the division. We match up well against this division, it's just a matter of getting on the field and doing what we know we can do.
Giovani Bernard
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