Quotes On Winning Teams

#1. All winning teams are goal-oriented. Teams like these win consistently because everyone connected with them concentrates on specific objectives. They go about their business with blinders on; nothing will distract them from achieving their aims.

Lou Holtz

#2. Winning teams at the NBA level, the college level, and the high school level all play team basketball. Championship teams have five players on the same page at all times.

Hubie Brown

#3. Even championship-winning teams don't play well all the time.

Teddy Sheringham

#4. I think there's an awful lot of ball players with great skills, but whether or not they're going to be on winning teams is not going to be answered until you see how they fit in to a team or a program. If they don't, it may be their fault or it may be their coaches.

Tex Winter

#5. We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup winning teams throughout the past few seasons, when they needed to play defense, they did it. If you can play defense, that's when you know it's game over.

Steve Yzerman

#6. Winning teams have the least amount of distractions. They have a really tight group of people working towards the same common goal.

Larry Dixon

#7. I'm so very happy to be here, ... My lifelong dream is to win, and I was accustomed to winning before I got to Cincinnati. From Bantam League, to middle school, high school and at Auburn, I was always on winning teams. I just want to win again.

Takeo Spikes

#8. Players win games, teams win championships.

Bill Taylor

#9. One of the biggest gaps in sports is the difference between the winning and losing teams of the Super Bowl. They don't invite the losing team to the White House. They don't have parades for them. They don't throw confetti on them.

John Madden

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

Derek Jeter

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

Rodney Harrison

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

Lou Holtz

#15. Earlier on in the season I'd have been very surprised to think we could win this competition because there were some fantastic teams in it.
(on the Champions League)

Steven Gerrard

#16. When I was a teenager and my brother Frank was in the World Series in '57 and '58 against the Yankees, Braves winning in '57 and the Yankees in '58, little did I know the next time these two teams would meet in the World Series, I would be managing the Yankees.

Joe Torre

#17. 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

#18. The teams in the Bay Area have created a culture of winning, but the Cubs and Metsneed to learn how to win.

Eric Byrnes

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. A lot of teams aren't going to let me beat them. I just try to do something each game to help us win. If you do something like that, whether it's a walk or a hit, your numbers will be there by the end of the year.

Ryan Zimmerman

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

Derek Jeter

#23. Trust is the glue that holds everything together. It creates the environment in which all of the other elements win-win stewardship agreements, self-directing individuals and teams, aligned structures and systems, and accountability can flourish.

Stephen Covey

#24. It is totally different. But once we went to 12 teams, that's just the way it was going to be. It's just a reality. But I don't think it's beyond the realm of possibility that some team can win four games in four days and win the whole thing.

Skip Prosser

#25. Clubs are all about winning. National teams, however, have an additional function: to incarnate the nation.

Simon Kuper

#26. In my teams, when we win, we all win, and when we lose, I lose

Jose Mourinho

#27. Stellar teams are invariably made up of quirky individuals who typically rub each other raw, but they figure out - with the spiritual help of a gifted leader - how to be their peculiar selves and how to win championships as a team ... at the same time.

Tom Peters

#28. They need to do two things if they're going to be great and win a championship: take the ball away and keep teams out of the end zone. You have those two things, that's the recipe for a championship.

Willie McGinest

#29. Look at great teams like Detroit a couple of years ago; they win the Stanley Cup and guys only score 25 goals, nobody has a really big season.

Peter Bondra

#30. The Spurs really are a family. They have a bunch of good guys that want to win, and the way they play is so unselfish. I'm looking forward to being involved in it. I feel that teams with players who are very close end up winning.

LaMarcus Aldridge

#31. It's my dream and I see no point in speaking about other teams when I have these dreams. I think other people know that about me; I'm just hungry to win with Arsenal and that's it.

Robin Van Persie

#32. Listen, involve, synergize at work. Then you will bury the old and create an entirely new winning culture which will unleash people's talents and create complementary teams where strengths are made productive and weakness are made irrelevant through the strengths of others.

Stephen Covey

#33. It's a reality here. We're a team that at this time of the season, with teams trying to get to the playoffs, it's going to be difficult to win.

Nate McMillan

#34. Both teams want to win and they want to do everything possible. You don't think about the fatigue factor. You're just trying to grind it out to get the win.

Paul Pierce

#35. Winning and losing was suddenly elevated to be about things that had no score and no teams and no uniforms; just one player at a time dealing with his life, his own struggle, his own triumph and torment.

Dan Groat

#36. None of my teams win anything. They are an extension of my personality.

Jeremy Hotz

#37. Any time you've got big teams winning, you've got big stars.

Pete Rose

#38. At Alabama, our players don't win Heisman Trophies. Our teams win National Championships.

Bear Bryant

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. We're not winning because of talent. We're just beating bad teams.

Michael Jordan

#42. You are anxious before every game because you had to win it. If you didn't you went down the ladder. I felt proud of the way we beat some teams in tough games.

Sourav Ganguly

#43. Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

Bill Parcells

#44. 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

#45. Eighty per cent of teams who score first in matches go on to win them. But they may draw some - or occasionally lose.

David Pleat

#46. To be able to have winning in your blood growing up, whether it was pounding my little brother or trying to beat my dad in something, or just competing on teams with my friends, it was nonstop.

Jordan Spieth

#47. To be the ultimate team, you must use your body and your mind. Draw up on the resources of your teammates. Choose your steps wisely and you will win. Remember, only teams succeed.

Jose Mourinho

#48. You always want to have good balance. That's the key to winning a Super Bowl. You look at the teams who have won championships, you got to have balance. So, to be able to run the ball effectively and throw the ball effectively is what gives you the chance to win a world championship.

John Elway

#49. 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

#50. That's one of the great oddities of baseball: Success is relative. A hitter who fails 70 percent of the time at the plate is a potential member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and many World Championship teams lose more than 70 games during their title-winning seasons.

Don Yaeger

#51. Individuals don't win in business, teams do.

Sam Walton

#52. 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

#53. I think that winning creates chemistry, as opposed to other way around. I've been on a lot of friendly teams that couldn't win, trust me.

Joe Torre

#54. Our titles would not have been possible without the unselfishness displayed by all our teams, the team wins, not the individuals

John Wooden

#55. 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

#56. 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

#57. 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

#58. Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into ideological teams that fight each other as though the fate of the world depended on our side winning each battle. It blinds us to the fact that each team is composed of good people who have something important to say.

Jonathan Haidt

#59. During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Bobby Knight

#60. Practically every consultant, or 96% of the sample, pointed to "chemistry" as the key factor for winning. But what exactly is chemistry? Generally speaking it is simpatico between the client and agency teams.

Peter Levitan

#61. 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

#62. 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