Quotes About Teams

#1. Good teams are committed to the team mission and to each other personally. Good leaders inspire and build this commitment and trust.

Lee Ellis

#2. To this day, while maintaining a healthy respect for the Giants and Jets and other teams I cover, I admit to checking the results every Monday to see how the Bears did.

George Vecsey

#3. The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.

Jay Chiat

#4. I hate to speak about individuals. Players don't win you trophies, teams win trophies, squads win trophies.

Jose Mourinho

#5. I'm a firm believer that the wild-card teams, because they're grinding it out until the final days, have a tremendous amount of excitement. That excitement carries over into the playoffs and really helps.

Tim Salmon

#6. I remember playing on pretty much an all-minority youth team and going to some of the tournaments north of Cincinnati and not being able to stay with host families where all the other teams were staying with host families.

Barry Larkin

#7. collaborative teams think of common formative assessments as academic scrimmages or dress rehearsals.

Robert Eaker

#8. Dirty. Would he end up like Luke if he stayed in the Teams long enough? Only to wake up one day and not recognize the man staring back at him in the mirror? The thump of the inbound helo's rotors saved him

Kaylea Cross

#9. It's a great start, but we have a tough group: we have big teams like Denmark, Armenia and Serbia, so starting here gives us a good opportunity to fight until the end.

Lorik Cana

#10. I'm not really worried about the other 31 teams.

Bill Belichick

#11. When playing against big teams, it's the small details that count.

Luis Garcia

#12. When you have a script, and you're discussing what it can be, and who going to play what role, that's a kind of like a fantasy football game. You can imagine these different dream teams interpreting these characters that only exist in your head.

Cary Fukunaga

#13. A great team doesn't mean that they had the smartest people. What made those teams great is that everyone trusted one another. It can be a powerful thing when that magic dynamic exists.

Gene Kim

#14. I believe good software is written by small teams of two, three, or four people interacting with each other at a very, high dense level.

John Warnock

#15. At the very least we should be given a bit of credit and a little bit of space, and maybe the media should think we could help them discover why English teams do not win European competitions.

Jose Mourinho

#16. You get into pro ball and you realize all the guys were the best players on their teams. You have to keep moving forward.

Matt Holliday

#17. 'Luchadores, mil mascaras' ... a thousand masks. I see a lot of those in Jets colors. And then the Hispanic fans of other teams, they'll wear them in their colors. And they're like, 'You're our guy, Sanchez, but I'm a Steelers fan.'

Mark Sanchez

#18. As the newspaper industry continues to contract, one of the most commonly voiced fears is that serious investigative journalism will be among the victims of the scaleback. And, indeed, many newspapers are drastically reducing their investigative teams.

Arianna Huffington

#19. Some of the most flowery praise you hear on the subject of teams is only hypocrisy. Managers learn to talk a good game about teams even when they're secretly threatened by the whole concept.

Tom DeMarco

#20. Sometimes you're blessed with teams that are incredibly talented, but there's chaos. But sometimes you're blessed, as I have been this year, to have kids who think the same way you do.

Jim Calhoun

#21. My favorite event each year is the Yankees-Red Sox series. Love seeing passions run hot among the fans, especially when both teams are in the running for the playoffs.

Elizabeth Banks

#22. The highest level of achievement is attained by the teams with the best conditioned players

Jack Ramsay

#23. Currently, I am overseeing the construction of the new Trump Tower in Chicago. I am involved in meeting with the construction crews, architects and sales teams. I am learning a lot and working with some of the best in the business.

Bill Rancic

#24. When we move the ball, we're one of the best teams in the league.

Tyson Chandler

#25. I wish there was a bar I could send opposing teams to and get them hammered or something - I could tell my buddies in New York to leave their places open or something. Playing for the Yankees, guys come at you extremely hard. I have to be ready or I'll be embarrassed.

Roger Clemens

#26. Group norms, the researchers on Project Aristotle concluded, were the answer to improving Google's teams. "The data finally started making sense," said Dubey. "We had to manage the how of teams, not the who.

Charles Duhigg

#27. Some people insist that hallowed professional teams should never change their nicknames.

George Vecsey

#28. Obviously, you want to get the best deal possible for yourself, but teams just don't want to spend that money for fear of being in the luxury tax.

Jason Terry

#29. I think I've achieved some good things; doing the first genome in history - my team on that was phenomenal and all the things they pulled together; writing the first genome with a synthetic cell; my teams at the Venter Institute, Human Longevity, and before that Celera.

Craig Venter

#30. Everything we talk about is about beating the Packers, the Bears and the Vikings. Obviously there are other teams in the league, but if you can dominate and be on top of your division you are always in the playoff hunt. It's time for us to win that thing.

Steve Mariucci

#31. Championship teams are built on being prepared, playing unselfishly and being held accountable

Jason Kidd

#32. From the age of 6, when I won my first race in skiing, I was on the national ski teams, really until Olympics in '72, so I always had a lot of discipline and commitment to achieve as much as I could in good way. Competitiveness doesn't stop when you stop skiing.

Ivana Trump

#33. Instead of being on teams at school, I was preparing for auditions.

Shawn Ashmore

#34. I don't build championship teams, I build championship boys.

Larry Gelwix

#35. After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.

Lou Holtz

#36. There's only two teams in Manchester. City and City reserves!" How right he was!

Dante Friend

#37. I played on the boy's teams until I was 12. I just loved it and had a passion for it. You couldn't get a soccer ball away from my foot.

Lauren Holiday

#38. Because, they're only thinking about one team when that game's over. Before the game, they're talking about two football teams. When the game's over, there's only one winner.

Don Shula

#39. One-third of your plays are special teams, so to block a punt and get good field position out of it and score was big.

Frank Knight

#40. None of the teams that actually probably were offering me a job from the getgo, actually in spring training, are in the playoffs right now.

Pedro Martinez

#41. Basketball's eras are defined by teams - Celtics, Lakers, Bulls - and baseball's epochs are defined by players - Ruth, Robinson, Mantle - but with football, it's the sideline strategists, the nutty professors and top coated Lears.

J.R. Moehringer

#42. Nobody wants to see teams out of contention showcased in December and January. I'm sure this is something that will be discussed again this off-season.

Al Michaels

#43. You believe you can make it every year. You don't think it's going to end. But the reality is that most teams, you end up in, you end up out.

Lindy Ruff

#44. But then southern hemisphere teams are more skilful than their northern hemisphere counterparts, which means games can be easier to referee.

Alan Lewis

#45. You can't depend on special teams touchdowns and blocked punts every week to win.

Rodney Harrison

#46. You'll never have a 16-team playoff in college football. The most that could happen would be four teams in the next century. But after that, I'm dead, so who cares?

Beano Cook

#47. If I could change the science system, my prescription for changing the whole thing would be organising it around big goals and building teams to do it.

Craig Venter

#48. Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We.

Phil Jackson

#49. If there is delay in getting culling teams out, delay in any part of the chain, even weeks, that could have great implications for the virus to spread.

David Nabarro

#50. My dad was the one who really loved basketball, and he was the one that put the basketball in my hands, and my mom was 'Team Mom' of all my teams. I used to play for three or four teams at once and she would just spend her entire afternoon driving me from practice to practice to practice.

Jeremy Lin

#51. Growing up, it was mainly just players I followed more than teams, with the exception of the Mariners. I never really had time to follow a team throughout a season.

Jon Lester

#52. Google teams have lots of autonomy, including from people like me.

Sundar Pichai

#53. Really, I learned a long time ago that in the National Football League, paper doesn't mean anything. Football teams are created on the football field.

Mike McCarthy

#54. I played for a lot of teams in my career, and I check all their results every Saturday, or at least the ones who haven't gone bust. But it's always Hearts first. They're the club who've really seeped into me.

Drew Busby

#55. In Georgia it's a little different because of the East Cobb program. It's such a strong program that we see a lot of kids that come through here on a lot of different teams from across the country that come here to play in tournaments.

Roy Clark

#56. I think we have a good team, but soccer fans will know that we're in a really tough group. The three teams in our group are really strong. The Czech Republic is a very good team, Italy is traditionally a powerhouse, and Ghana is one of the best teams in Africa.

Claudio Reyna

#57. The good teams, the dominant teams, aren't necessarily dominant in stadiums, but they are dominant largely in moments, when they do what's required to get out of stadiums with victories.

Mike Tomlin

#58. Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls. Instead, we must migrate rapidly to becoming a global 'team of teams' that comes together in whatever combination necessary to add the greatest value to the changes underway.

Bill Drayton

#59. Employers say they want people who can think creatively, who can innovate, who can communicate well, work in teams and are adaptable and self-confident.

Ken Robinson

#60. Teamwork and trust trump ego and arrogance in building high performance sustainable successful teams. Rethink your team building ideas

Tony Dovale

#61. Now there are two or three teams who are very ethical in their outlook who have opened up the economic benefits and that is probably going to be a turning point in the sport.

David Millar

#62. This illuminates not only fans' interest in major league teams but also the minors and even Little League.

John Thorn

#63. You as an individual coach have a responsibility to try to give those players who put themselves at risk and in harm's way a chance to achieve success, and that goes for universities and professional teams, as well.

Bill Parcells

#64. Good teams make the playoffs, hot teams win the playoffs.

Derek Jeter

#65. A lot of teams made a mistake in the NBA draft.

Josh Howard

#66. On Saturday morning, one of the two teams still unbeaten in the Premiership occupied a modest seventh place. It is an illustration of the relentless pace being set at the top of the league in which every stumble is a serious fall and draws usually constitute two dropped points.

Pete Gill

#67. What the other teams do is something that I can never control, so I just keep focussed on my direction.

Sete Gibernau

#68. It's kind of boring to me if teams never throw the ball.

Peyton Manning

#69. I had the opportunity to go with some other teams. But I didn't consider those teams to be contenders, and I was right.

Pedro Martinez

#70. Players win games, teams win championships.

Bill Taylor

#71. Well-coached teams are never surprised; they can adapt to anything they see.

Jack Ramsay

#72. In these times of self-directed teams, empowered employees, and "boundaryless" organizations, your worth as an individual employee will also get measured by your work group's collective results.

Price Pritchett

#73. I think everybody has to be better, right from me out. Everybody has to step up their games for us to be successful here. I've been lucky to be on some good teams over the years and that's what it takes, everybody contributing night after night.

Ed Belfour

#74. Teams can't prepare for me in batting practice. They can't find anyone who throws as slow as I do.

Dave LaPoint

#75. In our experience, what we have found is the rare commodity is a good management team. And good management teams manage through good and bad cycles and manage to grow their business over a long period of time.

Warren Stephens

#76. The Daytona 500 is a career-winning race. It defines careers for drivers, crew members, crew chiefs and race teams. It has that power.

Jimmie Johnson

#77. But if you look at teams that want to share more revenues, they're teams that don't have a lot on the table. They've long since not had any serious investment in their team.

Jerry Jones

#78. When there's a clear vision, and you've got the creative teams working toward that goal, each on their own, it can then come together quite elegantly at the endpoint.

Greg Rucka

#79. As long as research data is stored as tacit knowledge in people's minds or buried in interview transcripts, teams will experience difficulty synthesizing what has been observed and learned.

Bella Martin

#80. I made a decision that year, to start mattering in a way that had nothing to do with sports teams or plastic crowns, and the reality is, I might have made that decision without her, or if I'd never fallen in love with a girl who considered love to be the biggest disaster of all.

Robyn Schneider

#81. Today, he showed the world why he is considered the best batsman around. Some of the shots he played were simply amazing. Earlier, opposing teams used to feel that Sachin's dismissal meant they could win the game. Today, I feel that the Indian players, too, feel this way.

Wasim Akram

#82. There's three parts to football: offense, defense, and special teams. You'd no more ignore special teams than you would offense or defense.

Marv Levy

#83. A lot of teams, I think, are just happy to make the post-season. Here, you have to win.

Derek Jeter

#84. Members of trusting teams admit weaknesses and mistakes, take risks in offering feedback and assistance, and focus time and energy on important issues, not politics.

Patrick Lencioni

#85. Most of the teams who traded for me or signed me needed me to fill a hole in the puzzle. I feel good about that. You've got to roll with it, live your life day-by-day. Tomorrow's not promised to anyone.

Kenny Lofton

#86. The best teams are team in any sport that lose themselves in the team. The individuals lose their identity. And their identities come about as a result of being in the team first.

Mike Krzyzewski

#87. There are teams that are fair-haired, and those that aren't so fair-haired. Some teams are named Smith, some Grabowski. We're Grabowskis!

Mike Ditka

#88. When I grew up, all of our news, weather, and sports came from America. The people where I grew up rooted for American teams as opposed to Canadian teams.

Lori Lansens

#89. He's (George Steinbrenner) the one who gave me a chance to get to the World Series. This is where I wanted to be all along. We had a couple of nice offers from other teams, but I tied my agents' hands. I told them I wanted to be a Yankee.

Roger Clemens

#90. I remember going to see my dad pitch against other coal-mining teams, and he was successful with the knuckleball. I saw how bad guys would look like swinging, and how guys talked about how he could throw every day and didn't hurt his arm. That's how I grew up learning.

Phil Niekro

#91. The hi-tech industry is not a monolithic thing. If you look on a timeline of a company, you see that in the beginning, you have to come up with an idea and to be willing to take risk. You have to grow fast, you have to think fast, and you have to do this usually in small teams.

Yossi Vardi

#92. For our teams that do great work, we have a tradition of giving Rolex watches. If you see all the key guys with their Rolexes, that's sort of our Medal of Honor if you do something big.

Ross Perot Jr.

#93. If I were the commissioner of all sports media I would issue an immediate ban on three-person announcing teams on telecasts of live sporting events. In almost all cases three is one voice too many.

Al Bernstein

#94. We've had such thorough training, we've had an excellent team on the ground. With the minor glitches that have occurred, we've been able to take care of them. And the teams on the ground are getting tons of incredible data.

Laurel Clark

#95. This city has two great teams - Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.

Bill Shankly

#96. Overcoming barriers to performance is how groups become teams.

John Katzenbach

#97. I only started concentrating on football as a career when I left school at 18. I played golf for the Scottish and British boys' teams.

Alan Hansen

#98. The game is in a neutral country for both teams.

David Beckham

#99. Your team will get stronger when you begin to build yourself. Teams are made up of individuals who work together ... and get their own job done. What are you doing to be sure that your job is being done perfectly?

Jeffrey Gitomer

#100. When you assemble animation teams the way you do a live-action film, you're often struggling a bit to get a cohesive team together, so if you have a team that works well together, you're hoping for another film so that you can refine the team.

Brad Bird