Winning Team Sayings

#1. Profile of a winning team - They play to win. They have a winning attitude. They keep improving. They make their teammates more successful.

John C. Maxwell

#2. We want to be on the winning team, but at the risk of turning our backs on the losers, no, it is not worth it. So we fight the long defeat.

Paul Farmer

#3. I consider myself the head coach whose job is to keep this winning team intact. I keep everybody focused and motivated.

Monte Lipman

#4. 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

#5. It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.

Carol Burnett

#6. Rule Six: The winning team shall be the first team that wins.

Douglas Adams

#7. The best way to create a winning team is to train them, give them everything they need to get the job done and second, make sure they know what the job is and what the job will be. So you connect strategy to resources.

Colin Powell

#8. The only difference between a winning team and a losing team is one game. The winning team can win two out of three games ... the losing team can only win one out of three.

Vin Scully

#9. If we can't have a great team and a winning team, then I will not be an N.B.A. owner very long.

Ross Perot Jr.

#10. To build a winning team, you must help your players and staff have amnesia about past outcomes and remember all the little things they did to get better.

Jon Gordon

#11. Each year the winning team of the Super Bowl loses some ground (yardage) throughout the game. Yet they always keep their minds fixed on the goal, push through the opposition, and, as a result, advance to victory in the end.

Lisa Morrone

#12. The old adage that you shouldn't change a winning team doesn't apply in modern international football because managers have to study the opposition and pick players who exploit their weaknesses.

Glenn Hoddle

#13. I always believed in shooting for the top, and to become an American is like becoming a member of the winning team.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#14. God made us for more than just barely getting by. We weren't meant to sit on the sidelines of life because with God, we are on the winning team!

Joel Osteen

#15. Things happen in baseball, even if, in theory, it's something you don't do. Stats are a tool, but it doesn't mean that's how a game is being played at that moment. There's more than one way to win a game, or have a winning team.

Jon Miller

#16. Feature in God's team of trainees and you will play for the winning team! This is your heritage that you will lay hands on the trophy!

Israelmore Ayivor

#17. To build a winning team you must create a positive culture where negativity can't breed and grow, and the sooner you start weeding it from your team the stronger and more positively contagious your culture and team will be.

Jon Gordon

#18. Patriots fan, huh? Typical. It's easy to be a fan of a consistently winning team. Try being a Cardinals fan. That takes grit, endurance, and years of disappointment.

Allison Morgan

#19. It's real nice and exciting for me to break the records, but it's more exciting for me to be on a winning team.

Dan Marino

#20. 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

#21. A winning team feels good and keeps winning. A team that hasn't won in a while gets demotivated and keeps losing.

Sam Altman

#22. It takes a lot of people to make a winning team. Everybody's contribution is important.

Gary David Goldberg

#23. Despite their inglorious end, the legions remain to this day, thousands of years after their creation, the most pre-eminent example of how detailed organization, tight discipline, and inspiring leadership can take a group of individuals and turn them into a winning team.

Stephen Dando-Collins

#24. As of today, you do anything that I feel is disrespecting our program in any way, you are gone! From this day forward, everyone will be at practice in uniform as we will either build this program into something or we will destroy it!

George M. Gilbert

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

Jeremy Hotz

#26. People here want the team to win and to do well. The thing is, we know when to shoot the puck.

Steve Yzerman

#27. To me, the team is more important than any individual member of the squad, and the players have to realise that and accept that my priority is to pick a side with the best possible chance of winning each match.

Gerard Houllier

#28. All I can do is go out there and play hard and try and help my team win, and that's what I'm going to keep doing.

Brian Urlacher

#29. 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

#30. I met Jay Jonhson. I won him the way poor people occasionally win the lottery: Shameless perseverance and embarrassingly dumb luck, and every time I see one of those sly, toothless, beaten-down souls on TV holding a winning ticket, I think, Go, team.

Amy Bloom

#31. Ju smiled condescendingly. I understand. I mean, I just got here. As long as we keep winning, the team will keep following your lead, right?

Scott Sigler

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

Bear Bryant

#33. Loyalty is uncommon, unconditional
and uncompromising. Every winning
team has it.

Dan McCarney

#34. Actually, the Kentucky moment was better than winning the two National Championships, because it was the epitome of what I try to get from a team in a crisis situation.

Mike Krzyzewski

#35. 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

#36. To achieve any group goal, individuals must work to improve themselves as a means to improve the group.

George M. Gilbert

#37. The problem here is that unless a team is playing well, winning things, filling their stadia, clubs simply cannot afford to alienate the very

Nick Hornby

#38. 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

#39. If our team is playing well and winning, it doesn't really matter to me if I am scoring points or not. For me though the more I can help offensively the better our chances are to win, so I just push myself to get better and hope it continues for the rest of the year.

Eric Staal

#40. Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses
they tie
who cares? And why?

Edward Abbey

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

Michael Jordan

#42. The best way to serve the individuals on the team is to see that the whole team wins.

John C. Maxwell

#43. As his team prepares, a coach's entire being must be concentrated on winning games.

Bobby Knight

#44. If you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.

Michael Jordan

#45. 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

#46. If Dhoni plays till the end, one thing is for sure..He will make his team Win.

Harsha Bhogle

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

Bill Parcells

#48. Each individual's success as a solo artist is pretty much a win for the whole team.

Frank Ocean

#49. In my heart of hearts, I thought, if we get a 1-0 win and the team doesn't perform well, that would feel good.

Landon Donovan

#50. The way I figure is we win as a team and we lose as a team, but I've got to figure out some way where I can have a better April and help the team get off to a better start. I normally heat up when it gets warm, but it would be nice to come out of April and everybody is chasing you.

Albert Belle

#51. In a tournament, even though there are team scores, it's calculated and it's a lot more individual. There is more honor to say you're not just better than the opposing schools' wrestler, you're the best wrestler in your weight class. Plus there are lot more awards to win in a tournament.

Bill Vaughan

#52. I wouldn't feel good about it at all. At the end of the day I'm here to win a team prize, and that's to win a championship, not an individual prize.

LeBron James

#53. 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

#54. There will be a time when everyone on the team is going to contribute to winning a pennant.

Joe Torre

#55. A coach's job is to put his team where it can function effectively and win,

Pete Carril

#56. My saying is; We win and lose together. I think that really does apply to both my fans, family and the team.

Lewis Hamilton

#57. Ideas are easy. Execution is everything. It takes a team to win.

John Doerr

#58. 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

#59. Education depends on the quality of the teacher, not the site or beauty of the buildings-- nor, I might add, does it depend on the winning record of the football team, and I like football.

Anonymous

#60. I know what to do when they give me the ball. I know what to do to give this team a chance to win.

Johan Santana

#61. The thing it taught me was that winning's a helluva lot more fun than losing. It also taught me that the team with the best players that worked together the best wins.

Jack Welch

#62. It takes a number of critical factors to win an NBA championship, including the right mix of talent, creativity, intelligence, toughness, and of course, luck. But if a team doesn't have the most essential ingredient - love - none of those other factors matter.

Phil Jackson

#63. Goals have never defined me as a player. What has defined me is my impact on the team. If that means passing or playing defense to win, I'll do it.

Mia Hamm

#64. Coaching is salesmanship. Coaching is winning players over and convincing them they have to play together. It takes a team conviction to play together to make things work.

Phil Jackson

#65. I'm very confident in the management team, very confident in the on-air people. That's the whole secret to everything. It's having people who love to work where they're working and want to win.

Roger Ailes

#66. Everything to me is about team football, and if we keep winning Super Bowl trophies, I'll be fine.

Justin Tuck

#67. I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold, but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time. It wasn't until 1980 - I think I was 12 years old - that I thought, 'Wow that's what I want to do. I want to be on the Olympic team.'

Dan O'Brien

#68. 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

#69. I try my hardest to do what I have to do to make my team win.

Derrick Rose

#70. It's a different thing when you play on a team that has to win, that doesn't consider it a good year unless you win the championship

Manu Ginobili

#71. Any team that does not win it's conference championship game should not play in the BCS title game

Nick Saban

#72. 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

#73. I want to concentrate on winning things with Barcelona and Argentina. Then if people want to say nice things about me when I have retired, great. Right now, I need to concentrate on being part of a team - not just on me.

Lionel Messi

#74. When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing

Bo Schembechler

#75. A team wins with the elimination of mistakes and with people who want to win and can't stand losing.

Lou Holtz

#76. 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

#77. 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

#78. I'm not thinking about my numbers. I'm just trying to do the best I can to help the team win.

Carlos Gonzalez

#79. The third year at a school for any head coach is the most important year for the program they are attempting to develop.

George M. Gilbert

#80. 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

#81. I think we had to hit rock-bottom in all facets of the program before we could ever start moving in a positive direction.

George M. Gilbert

#82. The team with the most talent usually wins.

John Wooden

#83. The Indians franchise is more than a century old. It's been called the Blues, the Bronchos, and the Naps. It's also been called a lot worse during hard times when the team wasn't winning.

Tucker Elliot

#84. I want to feel secure personally. Have a competitive team out there
I really want to win; I hate losing
and, I guess, I want to be treated like a normal person.

Pedro Martinez

#85. The passion to win games, the incredible, focused energy and also the camaraderie of the team were all things that I really loved.

Jerry West

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

Sam Walton

#87. You've got to have camaraderie or togetherness on a baseball team if you want to win.

Andy Pettitte

#88. 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

#89. I don't like to be compared to Joe Jackson. because Joe Jackson, I think, took money to throw World Series games. Well, I know I bet on my own team to win. There's pretty much a big difference there, but both of us were wrong.

Pete Rose

#90. The men can go away, the executives can go away, but what is really though in this society are the players who has been handed down the feel of winning, of being the absolute best, which isn't equal to any other team.

Gianluigi Buffon

#91. 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

#92. Sometimes, you lose (a game) and sometimes the other team wins.

Otto Rehhagel

#93. Humanity is in my heart. Do I suffer fools? No. Am I a stickler for my profession? Yes. I am a task master? Yes. My military background, football background, I'm a team player all the way, and I love winning.

Isaiah Washington

#94. Keep winning and get to the postseason, I won 20 games and they just dumped one beer on my head. It feels good because I'm helping my team win.

Dontrelle Willis

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

John Wooden

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

Zoltan Andrejkovics

#97. 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

#98. Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.

Bart Starr

#99. 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

#100. 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