“What I found interesting about Slava Fetisov was that he went through three different generations of Soviet hockey. In the late 70's, he experienced the Miracle on Ice, and then in the 80's became with his teammates the Russian Five, the most dominant team in the history of hockey, and then helped bring down the hockey system when the Soviet Union collapsed and became one of the first players to play in the NHL, and then ultimately came back to Russia.” FirstsDifferentPlayThreeFoundInterestingFivePlayerGenerationsTeamLateMiracleUnionsRussiaIceHockeySovietDominantSoviet UnionTeammateNhlDifferent Generations Author:Gabe Polsky
“First figure out your partners, then figure out what ideas to pursue. The most important thing isn't the market you target, the product you develop or the financing, but the founding team.” FirstsImportantIdeasTeamFiguresProductsImportant ThingsPartnersPursueTargetFoundingFinancing Author:James C. Collins
“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.” IfsFirstsI CanAbleTeamFaultsRoundsMotivatedBest Of The Best Author:Jermaine O'Neal
“A first-place team? You're always excited to become a part of that.” FirstsTeamExcited Author:Justin Morneau
“[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?” WorldGivingFirstsOpportunityTeamAngelFirst TimeSeriesWhy NotPlayoffsWorld Series Author:Bobby Abreu
“For me, it's not about sacking the quarterback. It's about changing the course of the game. It's causing a crucial fumble at a crucial time. It's making a tackle for a loss when the opposing team needs to gain one or two yards for the first down. I look at myself as a sudden-impact player.” NeedsFirstsLooksTwoCoursesGamesLossPlayerTeamGainsImpactCrucialYardsOpposingQuarterbackSacking Author:Simeon Rice
“The best thing that a coach can have is experience. The first time that you're going out to lead a team on the field, you have certainly thought about what you're going to say, but it gets easier as you go. You'll learn what works and what doesn't, not just about what you do on the field but what you say to players to get them motivated.” FirstsPlayerTeamFieldsEasierFirst TimeCoachesBest ThingsMotivatedGoing Out Author:Vince Kehres
“Scholes was probably the best English midfielder since Bobby Charlton. He was such a brilliant long passer that he could choose a hair on the head of any team-mate answering the call of nature at our training ground. Gary Neville once thought he had found refuge in a bush, but Scholesy found him from 40 yeards. He inflicted a similar long-range missile strike, once, on Peter Schmeichel, and was chased round the training ground for his impertinence. Scholesy would have made a first class-sniper.” FirstsLongMadeFoundClassTeamHairTrainingRoundsStrikesBrilliantRangeMatesPeterRefugeMissilesFirst ClassGaryScholesSnipersImpertinenceTeam MateMidfieldersAnswering The Call Author:Alex Ferguson
“My first baseman is George "Catfish" Metkovich from our 1952 Pittsburgh Pirates team, which lost 112 games. After a terrible series against the New York Giants, in which our center fielder made three throwing errors and let two balls get through his legs, manager Billy Meyer pleaded, "Can somebody think of something to help us win a game?" "I'd like to make a suggestion," Metkovich said. "On any ball hit to center field, let's just let it roll to see if it might go foul."” IfsThinkingFirstsMadeSaidTwoHelpingMightThreeGamesWinningLostTeamNew YorkFieldsTerribleBallsErrorsSeriesLegsManagersGiantsThrowingSuggestionsFoulPiratePittsburghCatfishCenter FieldersCenter Field Author:Joe Garagiola
“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.” WayTryingFirstsPlaySoundPerfectPlayerTeamBaseballPreparationTenacityBaseball PlayerFanfareTeam First Author:Ned Yost
“There is a whole separate filmmaking team that's doing it, but that's part of what's great about the Brain Trust and about the inspiring leadership of John Lasseter. He leaves it up to that creative group of individuals to help each other elevate each thing that they're working on to only try to make it better and to share what you've learned on the first one.” TryingFirstsWholeHelpingIndividualBrainCreativeGroupsTeamShareFilmmakingHelping Each Other Author:Klay Hall
“I pick first my best team, and my captain from that team and I only pick players that are on form.” FirstsFormPlayerTeamPicksCaptainsBest Team Author:Rudolph Straeuli
“My best career moments have come being a fan first. Because that's why we love sports, and that's why I got into sports - those highs and lows on that roller coaster ride that I don't want to get off - because I enjoy the highs as much as I enjoy the lows. The highs are even better when you experience the lows, and that can apply when rooting for your favorite sports team or your career. It's also important not to get too high or too low, and it's also important not to listen to the noise. You just have to do it for you in those career moments because they're gonna come.” WantFirstsImportantMomentsSportsEnjoyCareersTeamFansLowsNoiseRoller CoasterYour FavoriteCoastersSports TeamHighs And LowsFavorite SportsRoller Coaster Rides Author:Linda Cohn
“he first make-up crew had three test runs, so by the time we were shooting, they got it down to three hours. They switched make-up crews for Eclipse and they never had any test runs, and they had to figure out what the other team had done, so the first day, I was in the chair for eight hours. But, they adjusted the scar from New Moon to Eclipse. The first time, there was more pullage on my face, so I had a hard time eating. It didn't hurt, but it was uncomfortable.” FirstsHardDoneRunningFacesThreeHoursHurtTeamFiguresMoonEatingFirst TimeTestsEightShootingUncomfortableHard TimesChairsScarCrewEclipseNew Moon Author:Tinsel Korey
“When you join this club as a young player you know you've got a mountain to climb to get yourself into the first team. (on Manchester United)” KnowsFirstsYoungUnitedPlayerTeamMountainEnglandClubsClimbsManchesterManchester United Author:Gary Neville
“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.” ThinkingFirstsI CanCan DoTeamFootballSeasonsSpainEnglish Football Author:Luis Garcia
“I'm an avid hockey fan and I've been playing for about 17 years, and somebody recently told me that the first organized hockey teams in Canada were all black. Telling those stories would be cool.” YearsFirstsStoriesWould BeBlackTeamFansOrganizedCanadaHockeyBeing CoolAvidAll BlackHockey TeamHockey Fan Author:Cuba Gooding, Jr.
“I have been privileged to be briefed and to know that we have been visited [by aliens]. I do not have first hand experience in this regard, but I have been on investigating teams and I have been briefed by insiders who do know.” KnowsFirstsHas BeensHandsKnowingTeamExperienceRegardPrivilegeAliensInvestigationPrivilegedAstronautUfoVisitingInvestigatingInsidersBriefingFirst Hand Experience Author:Edgar Mitchell
“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.” KnowsWayYearsFirstsJobsPayKnow HowTeamFootballGolfCoachesCoachingScoreMaryVansTournamentsWrecksAssistants Author:Lou Holtz
“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.” FirstsFourPlayerTeamLandCollegeBasketballFinalsCoachesApprovalStampsBasketball PlayerCollege Basketball Author:Mike Krzyzewski
“You guys have to understand that I started in as deep of waters as there is. I've been the underdog since the first time I put gloves on. I love my fans but I don't give a crap about who thinks who is gonna win or not. This isn't a team sport. I'm the one that has to deal with the person fighting in front of me.” ThinkingGivingFirstsPersonsGuyFightingWinningSportsWaterDealsTeamFansFrontsFirst TimeCrapGlovesUnderdogSports Team Author:Joe Warren
“Having first rate people on the team is more important than designing hierarchies and clarifying who reports to whom.” PeopleFirstsImportantTeamDesignRateReportsHierarchyClarifying Author:Warren Buffett
“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.” TryingFirstsDoeI CanHomeHandsTeamFansHonorBasesLeagueSacramento Author:Steve Ballmer
“And she [Eleanor Roosevelt]loves being a star. And she loves being a teacher and a leader and a mentor and a big friend. Also, she's tall. She's one of the tallest girls in the school. And she's an athlete. And she writes many years later, at the end of her life, she writes that the happiest day, the happiest single day of her life was the day that she made the first team at field hockey. And I have to say, as a biographer, that's the most important fact. I” WritingYearsFirstsMadeImportantEndsFactsBigsSchoolGirlStarsLove IsLeaderTeacherTeamFieldsAthleteTallHockeyMentorEleanorBeing A TeacherBiographersField Hockey Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook
“I mean, if you pause over what it means at the age of 76 that Eleanor Roosevelt wrote, the happiest single day of her life was the day she made the first team at field hockey. Field hockey is a team sport. Field hockey is a knockabout - I mean, picture Allenswood, the swamps of north London. It's a messy sport. So she really enjoyed playing this rough-and-tumble sport in the mud of Allenswood, a team sport. And she was very competitive. And she loved being competitive, and she loved to win. And that, I think, was all of the things that Allenswood enabled.” IfsThinkingFirstsMeanMadeAgeWinningSportsTeamFieldsLondonEnjoyedRoughHockeyPausesMudMessySwampsEleanorSports TeamField Hockey Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook
“I was an ambassador for Betway during the Rugby World Cup and at the moment I'm working as an ambassador for Artemis Investment Management. I also organised the first Rugby Aid in 2015. We had celebrities playing rugby against former England team players and raised a ton of money for Rugby For Heroes [a charity for former servicemen and women]. Only one celeb got crunched quite badly - Jaime Laing from Made in Chelsea ended up with cracked ribs.” WorldFirstsMadeMomentsPlayerTeamHeroMen And WomenEnglandManagementCharityInvestmentRaisedAidsCupsFormerCrackedRugbyAmbassadorsWorld CupRibsArtemisChelseaOrganisedTeam PlayerServicemenCelebsPlaying RugbyInvestment Management Author:Mike Tindall
“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.” FirstsGuyNextSilenceFiveTeamMinutesNew YorkTerribleIceBrokeSatInterviewsBusFive MinutesRangersFirst Date Author:Steve Rushin
“If you want to lead a family/team/organization, learn to lead/manage yourself first.” IfsWantFirstsLeadershipTeamOrganizationManage Author:Bradford Winters