Team Captain Sayings

#1. I don't view myself as a team manager, but a team captain. I'm part of the team, but everybody else as well.

Kevin McCarthy

#2. I was captain of the netball team, captain of the hockey team and I did my sprinting, but I would push myself. That's why yoga is really good for me because it actually slows me down and finds some sort of space for me.

Jayne Middlemiss

#3. I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box.

Lois Lowry

#4. In high school, my sister went out with the captain of the chess team. My parents loved him ... They figured that any guy that took hours to make a move was okay with them.

Brian Kiley

#5. 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

#6. Pick any player of the world. Make him the captain of India. I can assure you that the results will still be the same. MS Dhoni just not lucky enough to have the kind of bowlers that top teams like Australia, South Africa and New Zealand have.

Sourav Ganguly

#7. I always wanted to see why Captain America was on this team of Avengers. He's got to have a reason - he can't just be really fast and punch really hard.

Chris Evans

#8. I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.

Gautam Gambhir

#9. Sports were a big part of my life. I was the captain of the basketball team in high school, and captain of the basketball team at Princeton.

John W. Rogers Jr.

#10. You need a lot of leaders, but a hockey team needs a voice, not only in the community, but more importantly between the coaching staff and the players. There are always ups and downs in a season; the captain is the guy players look to in those situations.

Joe Sakic

#11. I went over before the British Open and played Valderrama thinking that I might make the team, might be a captain's pick. I made the effort to go over there.

Payne Stewart

#12. The prime minister's job is to captain his team, his party and his government.

John Bercow

#13. I was captain in Atletico at 19, playing in the same team as Demetrio Albertini, who won three Champions Leagues, and Sergi Barjuan from Barcelona, who had won everything, and they were 32, 33. I was a kid as captain, so I wasn't the real captain, just a kid learning from them.

Fernando Torres

#14. Hey, I said we don't carry weapons, I didn't say we couldn't defend ourselves." Captain Stanley Memphis, head of alien team disguised as pint-sized critters on a quest to learn if humans are savage bastards or a benevolent tribe.

Delilah Jean Williams

#15. It made me feel almost giddy, like a high-school girl watching the captain of the football team worked up his nerve to ask for a date. You mean me? Little old me? Oh my stars, really? Pardon me while I flutter my eyelashes.

Jeff Lindsay

#16. Don't date the captain of the football team; be the captain of the football team.

Courtney Love

#17. Cedric Diggory was an extremely handsome boy of around seventeen. He was Captain and Seeker of the Hufflepuff House Quidditch team at Hogwarts.

J.K. Rowling

#18. That's my No. 1 goal. I want to be part of (captain) Tom Lehman 's team.

Fred Funk

#19. I can say now that fear has no place in my daily life. I'm confident that I can handle whatever comes my way, just like the Carolyn Harris I was at fourteen--the karaoke loving captain of the Science Olympiad team, the steadfast friend, the girl who dreamed big...the Girl Most Likely to Succeed.

Lily Foster

#20. Talking of first times Stephanie, I bet your first time was really memorable for you and the captain ot the football team .. and the basketball team .. and the softball team, the track team, the chess club and the pool boy!

Chris Jericho

#21. Steven Gerrard would be the captain of my World XI dream team.

Francesco Totti

#22. I didn't win prom king. By that point, I'd quit sports except for soccer, so I was really just a theater guy. I totally lost to the captain of the football team.

Patrick Wilson

#23. Part of my job being a leader and captain of the team is not just to play well and lead well but find a way to make everybody around me better.

Andrew Whitworth

#24. My sports were team sports: ice hockey and baseball. The whole team dynamic is similar in business. Leadership is earned - the captain earns that role; it's not because he's the coach's son. These are all things we know, but in today's world, it's not a bad idea to remind ourselves.

James McNerney

#25. 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

#26. As a teenager, I was always this strange mixture of kind of vice-captain of the rugby team and sensitive artist type the rest of the time. I was sent away to this public school in the middle of nowhere, and I think we managed to completely miss out on normal youth culture.

Mark Haddon

#27. Everything a captain does in a team room is done to keep the team loose.

Beth Daniel

#28. I had thirty weeks of prep on 'Captain America.' I have a small team of qualified, supportive, creative producers who are actually helping me achieve my vision of the film. I had a dream cast headed by Chris Evans. I had the best designers, artists, sculptors, craftspeople.

Joe Johnston

#29. I do what I'm coached to do. That's part of being a team leader and captain. The job will change week in and week out, and it's not for you to question what your job is - it's to go out there and execute your assignments.

Larry Fitzgerald

#30. And it was where I learned how to play tennis and eventually became captain of the tennis team at the school and was on the Junior Davis Cup in New York City.

Sanford I. Weill

#31. I think, at the end of the day, filmmaking is a team, but eventually there's got to be a captain.

Ridley Scott

#32. When I was a teen, I was never really into the captain of the football team or the student body president. The guys I liked were quirky and different: They listened to music I'd never heard of, never had lunch or gas money, and could always make you laugh.

Sarah Dessen

#33. There's the pressure of being a No. 1 on the call sheet, being a lead actor. There's almost this feeling like being captain of the team. You want to put a bit of energy into actually setting a good example.

Joel Edgerton

#34. I actually was the captain of the football team. I went to Catalina Foothills High School, and I played football all four years. I started on Varsity my sophomore year, and senior year I was captain.

Parker Young

#35. The only way I'll ever make the Ryder Cup team is when I become captain; then I can name myself to the team.

John Daly

#36. I had played in a tournament with the captain of the University of Minnesota's golf team, and he thought I was good. He called his coach, and the coach called me and recruited me. A five-minute phone call changed my life.

Tom Lehman

#37. I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#38. Every team that I've played on, I've either been the captain or co-captain.

Julius Erving

#39. Okay, I know he was captain of the football team and he could bake a cake - that didn't mean I was ready to suck his finger. I was picky about what I put in my mouth. "I'll wait," I told him. "Wouldn't want to spoil my appetite.

Janet Evanovich

#40. The team should have implicit confidence in the captain's decisions.

Lord Mountbatten

#41. I think everyone in their life has some point on their life wanted to be like everybody else or wanted to be like the captain of the football team.

Marc-Andre Grondin

#42. I was the captain of the latent paranoid softball team. We used to play all the neurotics on sunday morning. Nailbiters against the bedwetters, and if you've never seen neurotics play softball, it's really funny.
I used to steal second base, and feel guilty and go back.

Woody Allen

#43. I don't need a captain's band to lead a team to victory.

Hope Solo

#44. He was the captain of the rugby team and he was built like a fucking gorilla. He had the personality of a fucking gorilla, too.

S.A. Tawks

#45. I was captain of the volleyball team and the basketball team, and I ran track.

Sarah Shahi

#46. IMAGINE! See it, feel it, believe it!
You can do anything, if you truly believe in yourself."
Ronaldo's Grandad
Former captain of the North Pole Flying Team, and very wise reindeer.

Maxine Sylvester

#47. We stay as a team. I might be England captain, but that doesn't mean I get treated differently.

David Beckham

#48. I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.

Gautam Gambhir

#49. It's LeBron's team. He's the captain. This is the time in my career where I can fit in. I'm now in the security business. My job is to protect the King, and that's what I'm here to do.

Shaquille O'Neal

#50. Keep driving," said a soft voice in my ear. "She will not bite if you keep driving."
Fuck that. Fuck that idea like the fucking Captain of the Thai Fuck Team fucking at the fucking Tour de Fuck.

David Wong

#51. I've gone from being a brilliant captain of a TV soccer team to an average rugby player on a real team. I've gotten so used to ruling the roost and just saying whatever the hell I wanted, and I had to get back to reality.

Tanc Sade

#52. I played lacrosse for a hot second, but I was mainly a swimmer - captain of my swim team.

Grace Gummer

#53. I've been playing American football since I was six years old. I was a captain of my high school team, playing strong safety.

Gabriel Luna

#54. As captain, I must always be an example to my team-mates. I'm calm and I don't have any problem with the coach or with the club. My only goal is to be ready whenever I have the opportunity to play.

Alessandro Del Piero

#55. I pick first my best team, and my captain from that team and I only pick players that are on form.

Rudolph Straeuli

#56. It soon became clear, however, that Abraham Lincoln would emerge the undisputed captain of this most unusual cabinet, truly a team of rivals. The powerful competitors who had originally disdained Lincoln became colleagues who helped him steer the country through its darkest days. Seward

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#57. I don't know if I expected to be a captain of an All-Star team. It's pretty cool.

Patrick Kane

#58. At 17, I already had responsibility because I took care of my family, but in the football I was young; I wasn't experienced or the captain - I was just in the team.

Pele