Top 100 Team Game Quotes
#1. Politics has come to resemble a cynical team game played by politicians, while the public has been pushed aside as if sitting on the seats of a stadium in which passion for politics is gradually making room for blindness and desperation.
Edi Rama
#2. Basketball is a team game. But that doesn't mean all five players should have the same amount of shots.
Dean Smith
#3. I've figured out that life in general is a team effort; it's a team game.
Joe Namath
#4. I don't get caught in the match-ups, trying to outduel somebody. It's a team game.
Paul Pierce
#5. This is a team game and one man doesn't win and one man doesn't lose. In the end, the best team usually wins.
Wilt Chamberlain
#6. I've always been taught that basketball is a team game and greater than the sum of its parts.
Len Elmore
#7. A lot of players think the game is all about individual performances when it's really all about a team game.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#8. There are several insights at the heart of the A's system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it's a team game. That no one player is going to make that much of a difference to your team, so for god's sake don't go blow a quarter of your budget on one guy.
Michael Lewis
#9. Cricket is a most precarious profession; it is called a team game but, in fact, no one is so lonely as a batsman facing a bowler supported by ten fieldsmen and observed by two umpires to ensure that his error does not go unpunished.
John Arlott
#10. 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
#11. I'm not a person or a selfish player, but we have to move the ball more, and we have to look further the team game, because we have enough talent to use different players.
Pau Gasol
#12. Football is an honest game. It's true to life. It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life.
Joe Namath
#13. I'm a point guard, so I want to see everybody else score and be happy. I don't necessarily need to score at all. I could be happy with zero points as long as it was a team game and everybody contributed.
Rajon Rondo
#14. Football is a team game. So is life.
Joe Namath
#15. A team is not made up of isolated individuals. Always stay in the game. Don't be passive. Football is a team game. No one plays alone. Success depends on your whole team being a single unit.
Pele
#16. Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it's a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players roam around, in baseball everyone has their little plot of the field to tend. When the action comes to you, the spotlight is on you but no one can help you.
Chad Harbach
#17. The correct way to play chess is to develop each and every piece (chess is a team game!), get your King safely castled, and only then begin more aggressive maneuvers.
Jeremy Silman
#18. Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.
Bill Veeck
#20. Cricket is a team game where individuals inspire each other to achieve performances which surpass what might otherwise be beyond them.
Richard Lloyd Parry
#21. Basketball, more than any other sport, is a team game ... about the thousands of small, unselfish acts, the sacrifices on the part of the players that result in team building.
Dean Smith
#22. I do know it's great to have a support from a fan base of a team. Football is such a team game, such a team aspect to it ... Good things happen, the praise is spread around; and bad things happen, usually it's not just one person's fault.
Andrew Luck
#23. D-Bo had a great game, so now a lot of teams, they're not sure what to do. They can't just key on me. They've got to key on both of us. D-Bo had a coming-out party.
Calvin Johnson
#24. It was tough to get up for teams from the West. This will put a lot of interest back in the game.
Martin Brodeur
#25. I love the game. It's fun to play, period. I love running around and getting sweaty. I love trying to lead my team. I love facing the challenge of another team that's better.
Jamila Wideman
#26. What I've been telling everyone that loves Carolina football is that we are going to put a team out there that, number one, is in good shape. We're going to be fit, we are going to be able to play the whole game and we're not going to poop out.
Steve Spurrier
#27. Because Naughty Dog relies on their facial team to hand animate the faces of each game character and they do such a remarkable job, I think you can be more realistic with your acting. It gives the story and what's happening to you the feeling that it's a game.
Nolan North
#28. 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
#29. In basketball, you can be the greatest individual player in the world and still lose every game, because a team will always beat an individual.
Bill Walton
#30. The name of the game is 'kill the quarterback.' Every football team tries to knock the guy out of the game that's handling the ball.
Joe Namath
#31. If anything, game development is even more of a team effort than making a movie, so for individuals to get credit for making a game is absolutely insane.
Warren Spector
#32. 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
#33. Basketball is a game of conditioning and fatigue. That's why I believe in practicing a team to train when it's exhausted.
Pat Riley
#34. When things are not going right, where are the leaders to pull this team together? That leadership sometimes, you just can't find it. If one of your leaders is the guy who throws five interceptions [in one game], you have an issue.
Marshall Faulk
#35. We always had to play the game and play for the team. It is a Kent tradition.
Frank Woolley
#36. An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.
Robert Benchley
#37. At the end of the game the team with the most points on the board is going to win.
John Madden
#38. Unlike a lot of other game companies that, once they launch a game, downsize their teams radically, our plan is to keep the team together and continue to focus on building content.
James Ohlen
#39. I think this can be a championship team. But we do have to take it one game at a time. You can't look at the end of the road before you get the next foot in.
Michael Strahan
#40. Obviously, the only reason I'm where I am is because God has gifted me and He has seen fit to put me where I am. I have to honor that by using my influence and my status on the team and in the game of baseball for good and to His purpose.
Lance Berkman
#41. 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
#42. He continues to give more than 100 per cent and his schoolboy-like enthusiasm for the game is something I envy and admire. For the team he is the best available coaching manual.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
#43. We didnt come out with any energy. We know were not good enough to let the game come to us. We have to come with high energy, play hard team basketball and do everything the right way. Coming into the season, we all knew we didnt have too much room for error.
Chris Bosh
#44. The biggest scandal I was ever involved in was - in high school, at a basketball game, I shot and scored for the other team.
Darby Stanchfield
#45. I basically try to visualize the team doing good things on the court the night before the game. I get shots up. There's not actually a pregame ritual that I do. I'm still trying to figure that out. I say a prayer. I go out with confidence.
Trey Burke
#46. I have loved football as an almost mythic game since I was in the fourth grade. To me, the game wasn't even grounded in reality. The uniform turned you into a warrior. Being on a team, the mythology of physical combat, the struggle against the elements, the narrative of the game.
Steve Sabol
#47. Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.
Bill Parcells
#48. 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
#49. The analysis of statistics is a big part of the modern game, and it's important as a modern manager to embrace areas that can help your team and players improve.
Brendan Rodgers
#50. We had a good team on paper. Unfortunately, the game was played on grass.
Brian Clough
#51. I'm a leader. I'm the leader of this team, and they look for me at any point in the game, and that's not just scoring-wise, I do other things.
LeBron James
#52. I'm the head coach at LSU. I will be the head coach at LSU. I have no interest in talking to anybody else. I got a championship game to play, and I'm excited for the opportunity of my damn strong football team to play in it. Please ask me after. I'm busy. Thank you very much. Have a great day!
Les Miles
#53. It doesn't feel different being here (at the All-Star Game) I feel like I'm on an All-Star team everyday.
Derek Jeter
#54. You become a champion as a team. I understand that. I know the history of the game.
LeBron James
#55. The truth of basketball is done in competition and fundamentals and team, but there's a lot of other junk that goes around the game.
George Karl
#56. When he's at the top of his game, there's not a team in the world that can handle Giggs' speed and penetration
Alex Ferguson
#57. And I have been very blessed, having coached some of the greatest that have ever played the game. But if I had to start a team today, the greatest player and the one guy I would take would be Larry Bird.
Red Auerbach
#58. The thing we found out was, when you get to a Super Bowl, both teams are treated the same, talked about in glowing terms. But when the game is over, only the team that won matters.
Don Shula
#59. I've cheated, or someone on my team has cheated, in almost every single game I've been in.
Rogers Hornsby
#60. The financial game is a team sport. God established a covenant with Noah after the flood, and later he established a covenant with Abraham. A covenant is an agreement between two parties. In order to prosper, you must establish what I call a "carevenant" with your family
Celso Cukierkorn
#61. I think that my IQ level grew as a player. I think that I [run] the game a little bit better. I'm waiting for the game to come to me, and I'm picking and choosing my spots instead of just going out there and just doing whatever because I don't have to do that with this team.
Derrick Rose
#62. Certain people who care about me a lot have said 'You don't play the game, and if you don't play the game, you don't get picked for the team all the time.
Rosie Perez
#63. Any team that does not win it's conference championship game should not play in the BCS title game
Nick Saban
#64. It's hard [arriving just before the game], but it's more mental than anything. I think I prepared myself as I was coming over mentally, to not think about being fatigued or anything, just to be ready to help the team.
Cappie Pondexter
#65. Baseball and American football and hockey are all ahead because they have a history. The MLS is kind of new. So hopefully, in time, and with players coming and trying to develop the game, and the U.S. team also doing well - at the last World Cup, they finished above England and created some buzz.
Thierry Henry
#66. Rather than opera, football is more like ballet or a chess game. You can really see it in a team like Arsenal, especially when Dennis Bergkamp was playing. He seemed to be able to read the game like a chessboard and knew where a player would be several seconds later and put the ball there for him.
Marcus Du Sautoy
#67. No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.
Reid Hoffman
#68. It's part of my game to occasionally send a message, one that may be unpopular to the outside world, but can be important for the team.
Oliver Kahn
#69. We are a team. We share the ball, we share the game, we share the worries.
Bill Shankly
#70. Just think about the game. Think about playing great, having a great time. Helping my team win.
Deion Sanders
#71. If you keep your team in the game and give them a chance to win each and every start, what could be better than that? That, to me, is my main goal.
Mark Mulder
#72. I don't know any other couple who has been to hell and back more than the two of us. I feel like everything we've been through has only made us stronger. We've had to learn to work together. To be a team. To support each other and stand by each other.
J. Sterling
#73. Every first-class season is important; every game is crucial, irrespective of whether you are in the Indian team or not.
Rohit Sharma
#74. I've never had a problem finding a team, a league, or a pickup game. Actually, I'm not sure I want soccer to get bigger. We have so many teams in San Francisco that there aren't enough fields.
Rabih Alameddine
#75. Larger game teams are often a bit more experienced at working with writers, which is often a huge relief. However, it also means that there are more people wanting to wander around the narrative kitchen telling you how you should be making your story pies.
Rhianna Pratchett
#76. Maybe I am the eye candy on the team, but the only mouth I plan on melting in is hers.
Collette West
#77. If you played the game the right way, played the game for the team, good things would happen.
Ryne Sandberg
#79. Christian guys had a reputation for being soft or not being tough enough to play the game. But every chapel we've had, our team fighter has been in there. Stu Grimson is very outspoken. Dan Bylsma, the head coach at Pittsburgh, was one guy that really helped me a lot.
Matt Cullen
#80. Sometimes, you lose (a game) and sometimes the other team wins.
Otto Rehhagel
#81. A star can win any game; a team can win every game.
Jack Ramsay
#82. 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
#83. This really isn't a game we really should be proud of. This game is liking taking your kids to the zoo. You're supposed to take your kids to the zoo. You're a father. So a team like that, we're supposed to beat them like this.
Shaquille O'Neal
#84. One thing about this game: It's really frustrating. In hockey, if you team's losing, you can start a fight. You can get your frustrations out.
Eric Gagne
#85. It hurts because you want to try to get out there and help the team win, and I wasn't able to do that. Injuries are part of the game, but I'm over that now, hopefully.
Pokey Reese
#86. My job has changed over the years, 22 years roughly I've been cooking professionally. When I was younger, I aspired to be the star player. Now, it's more I like to sit in the dugout and make sure the team wins the game.
Wylie Dufresne
#87. For PSP, we play the 'SOCOM' game as a team on the plane, and it's pretty cool because you can connect to everyone.
Patrick Kane
#88. I'm doing whatever I have to do to help my team win. So, instead of being focused on anything from the outside, I'm focused on winning and that next game.
Elena Delle Donne
#89. I never understood that when I heard people retire - they said they missed being around the guys. I don't have a need to make a play in the ninth inning of a game anymore. But being on the inside and being part of a team is something that you really do value and you really do miss.
Cal Ripken Jr.
#90. Ninety percent of the time, the game is going to be decided in the final five minutes. When two teams are evenly matched, the better conditioned team will usually execute better when fatigue set sin, and will probably win.
John Wooden
#91. In a game like this, the team that makes the least amount of mistakes prevails. We made a couple today. But it's all about the brotherhood. We all go down together.
Chuck Darby
#92. 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
#93. You have to lose yourself in the team and you have to lose yourself in the game
John Calipari
#94. We are a terrible defensive team right now. We're not putting forth the maximum effort that we need to put forth, especially in our position. You'd think that we'd put forth that maximum effort to not only win the game, but to get a good rhythm to get into the playoffs.
Jermaine O'Neal
#95. Baseball's best teams lose about sixty-five times a season. It is not a game you can play with your teeth clenched.
George Will
#96. The point of the game is not how well the individual does, but whether the team wins. That's the beautiful heart of the game, the blending of personalities, the mutual sacrifices for the group success.
Bill Bradley
#97. Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.
Paul Brown
#98. I have some very special guests tonight, and I would like to give a big welcome to the Wayne State men and women's rugby team for coming to the game tonight and to be on my TV Show
Mark Cuban
#99. If you're a creationist reading this, and you want to remark something like, "Well, that's the way he did it," I'll tell you right back, that is just not reasonable, nor is it satisfactory. If we were playing on a team right now, I'd say, "Get your head in the game.
Bill Nye
#100. I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.
Tom Landry
