Top 100 Team First Sayings
#1. Players who are committed to the team first will find a way to help when things are going bad, they will do whatever it takes. Kids that are more into themselves will not do that. They will take care of themselves and get more individual when things are tough.
Dick Bennett
#2. Recognize and reward players who put the team first, not just the gifted ones.
Don Meyer
#3. In order to have a winner, the team must have a feeling of unity; every player must put the team first ahead of personal glory.
Bear Bryant
#4. People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.
Abby Wambach
#5. The bottom line, in the professional level, no matter where you go, there's going to be competition. That's what it is. At the end of the day, you're trying to put team first and make each other better.
Scott Tolzien
#6. 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
#7. I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed.
LeBron James
#8. Rolen's the perfect baseball player. It's his tenacity, his preparation, the way he plays. He tries to do everything fundamentally sound. And he puts the team team first-there's no fanfare with him.
Ned Yost
#9. When a professional baseball team asks you to throw out the first pitch, that's an honor, and you do it.
Bubba Watson
#10. For a college basketball player or coach, to reach the Final Four is la-la land. You've achieved, you've got your stamp of approval. My first team to do that was in 1986. Then we did it in '88, '89 and '90.
Mike Krzyzewski
#11. 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
#12. I'm glad we were able to win this last one. I saw some good things tonight, ... It's just preseason, but we ran the ball good. I'm happy about that, and the first-team offense was pretty sharp.
Bill Parcells
#13. The worst weapon of your enemy, rival, competitor, distractor is creating self-doubt in you and/or your team. They cannot win you without first destroying your self-worth.
Assegid Habtewold
#14. One thing we've talked a lot about, even in the first leadership meeting, was, what's the purpose of our leadership team? The framework we came up with is the notion that our purpose is to bring clarity, alignment and intensity.
Satya Nadella
#15. My team can't agree on our first design. So, your team is made up of dynamic, creative minds that think differently. Congratulations!
Greg Nudelman
#17. I am a defensive tackle that no matter the situation, even if it is in nickel, I can go in there and rush the passer. And I can help the team out on first and second, too. I will get pressure.
Darius Philon
#18. I think the best thing you can do is be aware that as a first time founder you are likely to be a very bad manager.
Sam Altman
#19. If I was discovered by anyone, it would be Stephen O'Neil, who saw me in a play at Williamstown and introduced me to my team who I'm still with today. He was the first person to introduce me to the film and TV world. Other than that, I just assumed I would be a theater actor my whole life.
Logan Marshall-Green
#20. If the Cincinnati Reds were really the first major league baseball team, who did they play?
George Carlin
#21. I still have very close ties to Houston and the Astros because that was my first team.
Joe Morgan
#22. All Marines, sailors and civilian Marines, regardless of sexual orientation, are Marines first. Every Marine is a valued member of our war-fighting team.
James F. Amos
#23. Others first. Whatever your corporate mission, paint a clear and compelling picture that others can understand and embrace. State your mission in terms that appeal to your team's best instincts. Persuade and empower as if you are leading and mentoring volunteers.
Tony Dungy
#24. Football's about the young players, bringing youth team players through to the first team and hopefully getting the best out of them so they can go on to play for their country.
Wayne Rooney
#25. In my first season I was learning about English football in a new team. I scored 13 which isn't bad, but I think I can do better.
Luis Garcia
#26. I couldn't let how the team was doing affect my mindset on my rehabilitation because I sort of believe I had to take it upon myself that my rehabilitation and getting myself 100 percent healthy had to be first and foremost, before the team, in my mind,
Tedy Bruschi
#27. It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject; the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.
Alexander Fleming
#28. 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
#29. I never would say a player stinks. Ever. I'll tell you their team stinks, and first of all, they know their team stinks. And the fans know their team stinks.
Charles Barkley
#30. Go make your mistakes in the first team. You'll learn more in a month in the first team than you will in two years in the reserves.
Alex Ferguson
#31. Many years ago, I think I got my first insight on how an incredibly diverse team can work together and do astonishing things, and not just misunderstand each other and fight.
John P. Kotter
#32. I am excited about Indian Grand Prix F1 race. I will support the Force India team. I have friends like Michael Schumacher but I will support Force India because that is the Indian team and country comes first.
Sachin Tendulkar
#33. During my freshman year at Cornell, I joined my dorm's intramural football team. At the first practice, upper classmen pointed out I was tall, so I should try playing QB. Well half an hour later, it was abundantly clear that I should not be the QB.
David Einhorn
#34. It does not at first appear that an astronomer rapt in abstraction, while he gazes on a star, must feel more exquisite delight than a farmer who is conducting his team.
Isaac D'Israeli
#35. If my team isn't motivated, it's my fault. I can't consider myself the best of the best until my team is able to get out of the first round.
Jermaine O'Neal
#36. I spent my first two years as a professional with Mapei in Italy, on their youth team. We rode in minor races. Doping wasn't an issue. S
Patrik Sinkewitz
#37. The first thing about Houston is it's an organization run from a different perspective. In Cincy, the team lives off money it earns from football. Houston's owner has other business interests, and he controls the money.
Johnathan Joseph
#38. Just because we want our favorite team to win does not mean there's any lack of toughness when a player chooses family first.
LZ Granderson
#39. I shave my legs twice a week. It's hard the first time you do it. But I'm very lazy. For a team photo in December I just did the fronts.
David Millar
#40. 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
#41. I guess what really made me a Dodgers fan from the beginning was that the team had Jackie Robinson, the first 'Negro' in the major leagues.
Cheech Marin
#42. It's hard to dismiss the obvious symmetry between Longo [Evan Longoria] and the franchise for which he's now the poster-child: for the player, Hondo Junior College to MLB All-Star ... for the team, worst to first.
Tucker Elliot
#43. I want to be a starter again, I would really enjoy playing for the Phillies again, but my first consideration in making my decision is finding a circumstance that is right for me. I want to play for the Phillies again, but I also wouldn't mind joining a team I've never played with before.
Chan Ho Park
#44. Building a cohesive leadership team is the first critical step that an organization must take if it is to have the best chance at success.
Patrick Lencioni
#45. After his first training session in heaven, George Best, from the favourite right wing, turned the head of God who was filling in at left back. I would love him to save me a place in his team, George Best that is, not God.
Eric Cantona
#46. When you join teams that changes lives, yours will be the first.
Todd Stocker
#47. I can tell you first-hand from my experiences with Sacramento, the league does try to honor the fan bases it has, and encourage teams to stay in their home markets.
Steve Ballmer
#48. Every first-class season is important; every game is crucial, irrespective of whether you are in the Indian team or not.
Rohit Sharma
#49. So guess what, if I ever have my own team I am picking everyone first even the worst kid and the kid with the stutter like a skipping record 'cause I know all of us are scratched, even if you can't hear it when we speak.
Andrea Gibson
#50. 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
#51. Paul Scholes would have been one of my first choices for putting together a great team - that goes to show how highly I have always rated him. An all-round midfielder who possesses quality and character in abundance.
Marcello Lippi
#52. To be a leader, you must first be a team player, and you must care for the men you lead.
Dick Couch
#53. One time I snuck a ball on with me and when I went to winding up, I threw one of them balls to first and one to second. I was so smooth I picked off both runners and fanned the batter without that ump or the other team even knowing it.
Satchel Paige
#54. My first year of pro ball I played in the Northwest league and made the all-star team, and the next year I played I led the team in hitting and was third or fifth in the league.
Kurt Russell
#55. I'm pretty sure most of them sincerely believe that the First Amendment actually means they can say anything they want without consequences. Like no, that does not protect your butt when you say something ignorant on Facebook and end up getting kicked off the football team or whatever!
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#56. My focus was always first and foremost to stop the puck. I never let the other players on the other team get to me.
Andy Moog
#57. I've witnessed first hand the impact the Benchmark team has had on new ventures, and I believe their commitment to the entrepreneur and dedication to building companies of lasting value really set the firm apart.
Mitch Lasky
#58. Tony Taylor was one of the first acquisitions that the Phillies made when they reconstructed their team. They got him from Philadelphia.
Jerry Coleman
#59. I think there is more pressure at trials when you are trying to make the team and you have to come first or second, and you have to go under qualifying time.
Stephanie Rice
#60. Tottenham are trying tonight to become the first London team to win this cup. The last team to do so was the 1973 Spurs team.
Mike Ingham
#61. There are certain things in life that just suck. Pouring a big bowl of Lucky Charms before realizing the milk is expired, the word 'moist,' falling face-first into the salad bar in front of the entire lacrosse team ...
Lauren Morrill
#62. I was in Charlotte, N.C., when they launched the NBA team there, the Charlotte Hornets. And the first guy to roll into town was Carolina native Michael Jordan.
Hannah Storm
#63. Before you and your spouse can work as a team raising your children, you must first work as a team in your marriage.
Jim George
#64. If you want to lead a family/team/organization, learn to lead/manage yourself first.
Bradford Winters
#65. Winning is the first priority. Individual development is important, but if each guy gets better, the team gets better
Lawrence Frank
#66. 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
#67. Typically, my eighteen-month plan sets goals on two fronts. First and most important, I set targets for what my team can accomplish. Employees who concentrate on results and impact are the most valuable - like
Sheryl Sandberg
#68. We didn't think we were a fourth-place team. For us to beat the first-place team in the West and the first-place team in the East shows the dedication and determination that we had.
Cobi Jones
#69. If you compromise in the first five, ten hires it might kill the company.
Sam Altman
#70. The off-the-record reaction of the First Human Contact Team upon meeting the di'Taykan had been, "Holy fuk, they're elves!" To the horror of right thinking xenoanthropologists everywhere, the name stuck.
Tanya Huff
#71. It wasn't until I was at 39 that I joined my first real hockey team. Which was great. I scored a couple of goals here and there, but I wasn't the most graceful thing you've ever seen.
Aden Young
#72. I brought a lot of my own pieces of clothes to the design room when I first met with the design team just so they could see what my style was like.
Nastia Liukin
#73. First, how could I protect my team from the incessant demands of the business and achieve what the Agile community now refers to as a "sustainable pace"? And second, how could I successfully scale adoption of an Agile approach across an enterprise and overcome the inevitable resistance to change?
David J. Anderson
#74. The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
Jacob Bronowski
#75. Rule Six: The winning team shall be the first team that wins.
Douglas Adams
#76. And remember, Liverpool reserves are not just any team. Liverpool reserves are the second-best team in the land, son. The only team better than the Liverpool reserve team is the Liverpool first team.
David Peace
#77. My first time performing was in the black box theater of my high school's basement as a member of 'Clownaz,' the school's improv team. We charged money for tickets, saying the proceeds went to our school's recycling program. Then, immediately after the show, we divided up all the money and kept it.
Joe Mande
#78. My role models in the business were the older guys on my team when I first got there: Gray Scott, Adrian Smith, Roland Taylor. These were the guys who took me under their wing, and really schooled me in terms of what the business was about.
Julius Erving
#79. I was able to represent my country and put on the red, white, and blue - how many people in the world get to do that? Standing on the podium with my teammates, and being the first women's gymnastics team to win this gold medal, it was life-changing!
Dominique Moceanu
#80. I spent my first twenty years in Morocco, where I coached the national team.
Just Fontaine
#81. I guess the second-term team is not quite as adoring as the first.
Peggy Noonan
#82. AirBnB spent 5 months interviewing their first employee, before they hired someone and in their first year, they only hired 2 people.
Sam Altman
#83. My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn't much, so to get $300 more per year, I agreed to coach the golf team. I didn't even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments.
Lou Holtz
#84. for the average team, insisting on writing tests first, before functional coding, improves quality.
David J. Anderson
#85. My first interview at SI, I sat in silence next to Guy LaFleur for five minutes on the New York Rangers team bus until he finally broke the ice. Those early interviews, every one of them was like a terrible first date.
Steve Rushin
#86. 'The Look' is my first documentary, and I enjoyed the freedom of working within a small team.
Angelina Maccarone
#87. My first act after being named head coach of the Bulls was to formulate a vision for the team. I had to take into account not only what I wanted to achieve, but how I was going to get there.
Phil Jackson
#88. Being successful means good results for the national team at first in the regional competitions like the Asian Cup and keeping in mind to go for Gold at a World Cup in the future.
Berti Vogts
#89. I remember my first meeting with my management team when I became Indonesia's Minister of Finance. I was the youngest person and the first woman ever to hold that job. Everybody else in the room was male. I knew then that I had to work harder than any man to prove to them that I was capable.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
#90. I had no idea what was in store for me this season. This is the first time I've been a part of a true team sport, and there's someone else counting on you. You can't let that person down, and that's what drives me.
Lauryn Williams
#91. I am very happy to be signing for the best team in the world and especially proud to be the first Portuguese player to join United.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#92. In my teams, the goalie is the first attacker, and the striker the first defender.
Johan Cruijff
#93. Figure out what you do best, and build a team second to none around that ... # 1 Requirement in building first class companies.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#94. All right, team ... This is our first game of the season ... If we all show the right spirit, I think we can win this one. Let's try to encourage each other ... Let's hear a little chatter out there, okay?"
"YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL, KID!
Charles M. Schulz
#95. At the moment we've only got 16 first-team players and my initials stand for Mick McCarthy, not Merlin the Magician (the new Wolves manager gets the excuses in early!)
Mick McCarthy
#96. You don't have to hurt somebody just to make sure they don't hurt you first." Hawkeye, in one of his less cynical moments.
M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team
#97. I pick first my best team, and my captain from that team and I only pick players that are on form.
Rudolph Straeuli
#98. [The Angels are] a team that gives you an opportunity always to be in the playoffs. This time, my first time with them, I was very close to getting to the World Series, so why not stay?
Bobby Abreu
#100. 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
