Best Team Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

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Author:Michael Lewis

“Team Obama is exploiting the power of high government office to intimidate lawful, peaceful contributors who support limited-government causes.”

Government Causes Support Team Office Peaceful Intimidating Limited Government Contributors

Author:Michelle Malkin

“I had the opportunity to go with some other teams. But I didn't consider those teams to be contenders, and I was right.”

Opportunity Team

Author:Pedro Martinez

“None of the teams that actually probably were offering me a job from the getgo, actually in spring training, are in the playoffs right now.”

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Author:Pedro Martinez

“Everything we talk about is about beating the Packers, the Bears and the Vikings. Obviously there are other teams in the league, but if you can dominate and be on top of your division you are always in the playoff hunt. It's time for us to win that thing.”

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Author:Steve Mariucci

“Really, throughout my career, what I've done is taken teams with bad records and with every situation I've made them better.”

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Author:Don Nelson

“When you have bad teams, you've got to be creative to win games you're not supposed to win.”

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Author:Don Nelson

“It's fun to work the robotic arm in part because it's really a team effort.”

Fun Effort Team Arms Robotics Team Effort

Author:Ellen Ochoa

“Even on the greatest teams, there's always one role player.”

Roles Player Team

Author:Keith Olbermann

“Roc Nation is such an incredible, unique team, especially in the music industry. Everyone genuinely loves and cares about each other.”

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Author:Rita Ora

“And Barry Levinson is insanely funny. I don't know if you know this, not everyone does, but he and Craig T. Nelson were a comedy team back in the coffeehouse days of the late '60s.”

Ifs Knows Doe Comedy Team Late Nelson

Author:Kevin Pollak

“Managing can be more discouraging than playing, especially when you're losing because when you're a player, there are at least individual goals you can shoot for. When you're a manager all the worries of the team become your worries.”

Individual Goal Worry Player Team Losing Managers Discouraging Individual Goals

Author:Al Lopez

“But then southern hemisphere teams are more skilful than their northern hemisphere counterparts, which means games can be easier to referee.”

Mean Games Team Easier Southern Counterparts Hemisphere Referee

Author:Alan Lewis

“I do my own analysis on the teams I am refereeing. I will know some of the personalities, the players who could be difficult customers in a scrum situation, the ones I am going to have to really work hard on early in the game to get what I want.”

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Author:Alan Lewis

“It is pretty amazing. My parents, who came from Nicaragua to the U.S. - who would have thought that they would have American kids on the Olympic team? I think that's the epitome of the Olympic dream.”

Thinking Dream Kids Parent Team Epitome Nicaragua

Author:Diana Lopez

“Not to be narcissistic, but I truly believe in order to make yourself better, you should see what you did before and what was good about that and what wasn't - same way a football team plays a game and then they go back and watch film.”

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Author:Jake Owen

“It's always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone - sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.”

People Sometimes Helping Speak Language Bits Team Direct Contact Mentality

Author:Alain Prost

“I've been around enough to know what it takes to get a team to reach its potential, and I want players who want to reach their potential.”

Knows Want Enough Player Team

Author:Bill Parcells

“To have been selected to represent Team South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the individual 400m and the 4x400m relay is a real honor and I am so pleased that years of hard work, determination and sacrifice have all come together.”

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Author:Oscar Pistorius

“I have a phenomenal team behind me who have helped get me here and I, along with them, will now put everything we can into the final few weeks of preparations before the Olympic Games, where I am aiming to race well, work well through the rounds, post good times and maybe even a personal best time on the biggest stage of them all.”

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Author:Oscar Pistorius

“To distract from the president's disappointing record, Team Obama has decided to base their entire campaign on attacking the private sector and Mitt Romney's career as a successful businessman.”

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Author:Reince Priebus

“I was writing very early, like I was involved in our high school literary magazine, which was called 'Pariah.' The football team was the Bears, and the literary magazine was 'Pariah.' It was great. It was definitely a real sub-culture. But I wrote stories for them.”

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Author:Tom Perrotta

“The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.”

Sports Community Team Sports Team Indescribable

Author:Wendell Pierce

“If I had tried the Olympics any younger, I wouldn't have been as prepared as I am right now. But there are definitely a ton of juniors out there, all around the world and in the USA, that if there was no age limit, they could definitely make the Olympic team.”

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Author:Aly Raisman

“When I first turned elite in gymnastics, when I was 14, that's when I really became more inspired than ever. I just always kept that in the back of my mind, and always thought about making the 2012 team.”

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Author:Aly Raisman

“As a former member of President Obama's economic team, I have a soft spot for the fiscal stimulus legislation he signed just a month after his inauguration.”

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Author:Christina Romer

“I really feel like that concept of enjoying the now and not worrying about the future is what my coach has been trying to teach me for 14 years - and that is what has made me such a different athlete 10 years later, and that is what has made me strong enough mentally to make this Olympic team.”

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Author:Melanie Roach

“I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan making Super-8 movies.”

Kids Actors Team Filmmaker Michigan

Author:Sam Raimi

“I've worked in network and cable on and off for a number of years, and you just understand what your parameters are. A lot of times, I think the best work that my team has come up with comes from having to deal with certain boundaries.”

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Author:Shawn Ryan

“I always read about these stories of entrepreneurs - it’s like they’re in the desert with no water, and they’re the ones that survive. But I’ve been really fortunate to have people on my team who are optimistic about the future and who know that if you work through hard times that there’s usually something good at the end.”

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Author:Ben Silbermann

“I’d never managed anyone before, so I don’t have a lot of experience. But I’m lucky - I have a lot of team members who have a really honest relationship with me.”

Team Honest Lucky Members Team Member Honest Relationship

Author:Ben Silbermann

“Growing up I definitely looked up to Dominique Moceanu. She was my favorite gymnast and she was on that '96 Olympic team. She was always so fun to watch. I kind of wanted to model my career after hers.”

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Author:Alicia Sacramone

“The cast of 'Vikings' is a real team, a true ensemble. It's a mad, eclectic, great bunch! But we support each other and trust each other completely. There are no egos.”

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Author:Clive Standen

“I had a great editor, Rebecca Corbett, from the time I was a city reporter right through to the years I worked on the 'Sun's' enterprise reporting team.”

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Author:David Simon

“You work enough with someone and you develop a shorthand. You know how he likes to work through the day and he knows where you're vulnerable and where your weaknesses and strengths are, so it makes for a good team, a team that knows who's over there behind your back.”

Knows Enough Behinds Know How Team Weakness Likes Vulnerable Strength And Weakness Good Team Shorthand Behind Your Back

Author:David Strathairn

“I've seen teams spend £150 million and get nowhere near the Champions League. It has taken Manchester City a billion to get there. There are no guarantees.”

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Author:Gordon Strachan

“I work hard and I have a standard of excellence - and I expect everyone at the Interior Department to meet that same standard. I delegate a lot. I might appear to be doing a lot of different things, but there's a strong team helping me. I believe we're going to have the strongest team of any agency in the Obama administration.”

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Author:Ken Salazar

“If all the members of a team have synchronized their energy and they have all subordinated their egos to success of the team, then we have a functioning unit. If we have a lot of hotshots who want attention, you won't really play that well.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Whenever I am losing, it's like, 'It's his fault'. And whenever I'm winning it's like, 'That's us'. That's the team, the people.”

People Winning Team Losing Faults

Author:Marat Safin

“For me, honestly, it's not about individual accomplishments, individual award. It's about what I've got to do and how I can contribute to the team.”

I Can Individual Team Honestly Accomplishment Awards

Author:Sheryl Swoopes

“I have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with a world-class team of engineers to turn science fiction into reality.”

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Author:Sebastian Thrun

“General Petraeus is not a miracle worker. He can not be successful unless the president creates greater confidence within his own team about the decisions which the president has himself made.”

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Author:Jim Talent

“I've always enjoyed interleague play. It gives you a chance to see different clubs, to go to different places. It gives you a good chance to see where you are, where you stand with other teams.”

Giving Different Play Chance Team Clubs Enjoyed Where You Are Different Place Good Chance Where You Stand

Author:Jim Thome

“But I loved doing the physical stuff for 'Dredd.' I have to give a shout-out to the stunt team that I worked with.”

Giving Stuff Team Shout Out

Author:Olivia Thirlby

“I think the preponderant opinion clearly was that St. Louis could be a great football city if it had a team of its own that they could really root for.”

Ifs Thinking Cities Opinion Team Football Roots Great Football

Author:Paul Tagliabue

“I am a former sabre fencer and fenced as part of the Uzbek republic team.”

Team Former Republic

Author:Alisher Usmanov

“I never thought then I'd be doing what I'm doing now. At my high school, being on the girls soccer team was the cool thing to do, but that was definitely never going to happen for me, so I played music. Not because everyone thought it was awesome, but for the love of it.”

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Author:Kate Voegele

“In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.”

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Author:Sam Wyly

“I mean, I've always said I have an amazing team and network of friends and people that I work with that, you know, inspire me and enable me to do what I do.”

People Knows Mean Said Team Inspire

Author:Alexander Wang

“I've always said I'm not the kind of designer who likes to lock himself away in a studio and let the rest of the company deal with it. I work very closely with everyone on the team.”

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Author:Alexander Wang

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