Sports Team Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Living, dying, and thinking ... they're all team sports.

Timothy Leary

#6. 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

#7. In Gym, the kids on my team learned not to pass me the ball and to step quickly in front of me if the other team tried to take advantage of my weakness. I happily stayed out of their way.

Stephenie Meyer

#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. You don t get the breaks unless you play with the team instead of against it.

Lou Gehrig

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

Max McKeown

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

Bonnie Bassler

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. The modern athlete is an individual corporation. I'm not quite sure it's very good for sport, or good for team work, or those different things that sport says it's about. This is about business.

LeBron James

#21. 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

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

Don Yaeger

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. If teams had to name themselves honestly, they'd all be the Pimple-Faced Teenagers.

Eric Berlin

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

Franz Beckenbauer

#29. Business and investing are team sports.

Robert Kiyosaki

#30. 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

#31. The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported.

Novak Djokovic

#32. 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

#33. There is no cheap way to achieve the ability to turn pro in tennis; it unfortunately is more expensive than team sports.

Martina Navratilova

#34. 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

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

Brian Clough

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. 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

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

Mia Hamm

#40. If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.

Michael Mandelbaum

#41. Any team sport, there are certain team targets and those targets should always be in the forefront.

Sachin Tendulkar

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. No matter the disappointment, you simply cannot divorce your favorite team.

Kevin Walker

#46. 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

#47. Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference.

Robert Griffin III

#48. 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

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

Robert Kiyosaki

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team.

Don Shula

#55. 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

#56. 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

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

Jamie Bamber

#58. 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

#59. 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

#60. 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

#61. 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

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

Bill Watterson

#63. 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

#64. Maybe I am the eye candy on the team, but the only mouth I plan on melting in is hers.

Collette West

#65. 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

#66. If you don't demand that your people maintain. High performances to remain on your team, Why should they be proud of the association?

Lou Holtz

#67. The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn't really compete against another team.

Cal Thomas

#68. 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

#69. When your government, employer, landlord, merchant, banker and local sports team gang up to picture, digitize and permanently record your every activity, you are placed under unprecedented control.

William Safire

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

Emmitt Smith

#71. It's amazing how two thin pieces of clothing can hold such deep memories. Laughter, pain, victory, defeat, friendship, fatigue, elation ... they're all there, but only to the person who's worn the uniform

Wendelin Van Draanen

#72. 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

#73. I grew up on North American sports teams as well as English soccer clubs.

Ian Astbury

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

Celso Cukierkorn

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

Jeffrey Katzenberg

#76. 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

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

Biz Stone

#78. 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

#79. 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

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

Genesis Rodriguez

#81. 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

#82. 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

#83. I would never tell anybody to give up hockey - the great sports we have here - basketball, lacrosse - rugby coming into its own - we've got so many great team sports, and I say hold on to them.

George Vecsey

#84. The team that keeps winning is not the most talented but the most hard-working.

Zoltan Andrejkovics

#85. 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

#86. Basketball is sort of an interesting sport that, you know, the top player on your team makes so much more of an impact than the top player in any other sport.

Daryl Morey

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

Lou Holtz

#88. I was not good at team sports, I have to say. I'm quite good at individual sports, but I was not good at team sports, so I wasn't good at baseball and football.

Tom Ford

#89. 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

#90. I enjoyed being involved in team sports and making close friendships.

Brian McBride

#91. 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

#92. Whatever sport you're looking at, it's usually the team that makes the least mistakes that has the most success.

Joe Torre

#93. 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

#94. 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

#95. 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

#96. 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

#97. Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.

Doug Collins

#98. 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

#99. Acting is probably the number one team sport in America as far as I'm concerned.

Neal McDonough

#100. 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