Quotes About Playing Team Sports

#1. There's something about sports. You can be setting fire to cats and burying them in your backyard, but as long as you're playing team sports, people think you're okay.

Polly Horvath

#2. When I first started playing team sports, I was a little too sweet for my own good. I'd be in tears because I wasn't doing well. But the healthy competition really toughened me up.

Marisa Miller

#3. I always step back and look at - you know, look at my background in playing team sports my whole life and taking that approach into Congress. It's not about me going, and you know, feeding my ego going to Congress.

Jon Runyan

#4. Team sports are very important for shaping personalities. It's important that kids understand the mentality behind playing team sports and playing for one another and playing with friends.

Brian O'Driscoll

#5. There are lots of positives to come out of playing all sports, not just football. Team games can offer you different life skills than an individual sport can. Football improves your time management - you have to be places on time and disciplined in terms of training.

Hope Powell

#6. It's the nature of the beast, playing sports on the ski team and how competitive all of us are. I want to beat everybody's time.

Ted Ligety

#7. The fact that alienated people can be counted on to vent their spleen in ineffectual directions - by fighting among themselves - relieves the government of the need to deal fundamentally with the conditions which cause their frustrations,

Chris Hedges

#8. There is nothing you can be doing in lacrosse on your own in the fall that would be better for you than going to football or soccer practice every day. You can go bang a ball against a wall all you want, but how do you become a better team player? By playing other team sports.

Dom Starsia

#9. The thing I learned when I was playing was that your best way of winning was to make it difficult for the other team to score in the last three innings.

Tony La Russa

#10. Three things in life you will never have to chase: True friends, true love and your destiny!

Alex Haditaghi

#11. I don't think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.

Noam Chomsky

#12. I wish more people knew that the only one of the three main parties where not a single MP flipped from one property to the next, and not a single MP avoided capital-gains tax, where every single London MP did not claim a penny of second-home allowance, was the Liberal Democrats.

Nick Clegg

#13. The Book of Revelation is a description of one path to the New Jerusalem, but this scenario is not inevitable.

Barbara Marx Hubbard

#14. I've used my experience from playing sports in almost every aspect of my life. Playing soccer is where I found my voice, and playing softball was where I learned precision, and in every game I learned to play as a member of a team - to work not for my own glory, but for a shared goal.

Linda Sanchez

#15. I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in another world; but still I am not what I once used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am

John Newton

#16. Work hard - beat out half the team. Be committed, play fair as a team player - Beat out another quarter of the team. The last quarter is your desire and beliefs, and where you are playing.

John Kessel

#17. The road is long, we carry on, try to have fun in the meantime.

Lana Del Rey

#18. When asked about which team is the toughest team in the league, responded with an answer that all volleyball players must comprehend. He said simply that it was, 'The team you are playing.'

Roy Campanella

#19. Doubt is a virus that attacks our self-esteem, productivity and confidence. Faith that you and your life are perfectly unfolding is the strongest vaccine.

Sean Stephenson

#20. I love sports, and when I was playing soccer, I was always trying to be the leader on the team and the one who takes control.

Gregg Sulkin

#21. I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport. But since I am, I'm happy to start the conversation,

Jason Collins

#22. Worry looks back, Hope looks forward, but Faith always looks up.

Umair Naeem

#23. Your attitude defines your results and dictates your experience.

Kyle Barger

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later.

Al Leiter

#28. 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

#29. The great thing about playing team sport is you win and lose together, and the pain is never as bad when you share it.

Brian O'Driscoll

#30. Scientific deductions had their limits, since such reasoning required hard facts. Intuition, on the other hand, was prone to fill in the voids between,

Arthur M. Doweyko

#31. Whenever you're reporting, there's always something you can't say or write, but the questions, you always want to get as close to that line as possible. You want to ask the tough questions.

Michael Hastings

#32. Those are the big mountains between Archenland and Narnia. I must have come through the pass in the night. What luck that I hit it!
at least, it wasn't luck at all, really. It was Him! And now, I'm in Narnia.

C.S. Lewis

#33. Can you believe this crap ?

Jon-Erik Hexum

#34. 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