Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Woo

When I made 'Hard Boiled,' I had no idea that it would be released to an international audience. I just wanted to make a film to team up my two favorite actors, Tony Leung and Chow Yun-Fat.

John Wooden

Lead, don't drive. And give credit. Don't blame. If an officer on your team suggested something and it worked well, give them credit. If it doesn't work well, you take the blame because you made the decision.

John Wooden

The team with the most talent usually wins.

John Wooden

You cannot attain and maintain physical condition unless you are morally and mentally conditioned. And it is impossible to be in moral condition unless you are spiritually conditioned. I always told my players that our team condition depended on two factors / how hard they worked on the floor during practice and how well they behaved between practices.

John Wooden

The best players don't win championships. The best team players win championships.

John Wooden

You better play together as a team or you sit.

John Wooden

Constantly be aware and observing. Always seek to improve yourself and the team.

John Wooden

Place the team above yourself always.

John Wooden

The best way to improve your team is to improve yourself.

John Wooden

Kindness makes for much better teamwork.

John Wooden

Selfishness is the greatest challenge for a coach. Most players are more concerned with making themselves better than the team.

John Wooden

When you choose to become part of a team, you cease to exist as an individual.

John Wooden

There are three things an athlete must do. You must be in physical condition ... You must execute properly and quickly the fundamentals ... and you must have eagerness to sacrifice personal interests or glory for the welfare of the team.

John Wooden

Confidence comes from being prepared.

John Wooden

Make sure that team members know they are working with you, not for you.

John Wooden

Opponents are working very hard to defeat us. Let's not do it for them by defeating ourselves from within.

John Wooden

Each of us must make the effort to contribute to the best of our ability according to our individual talents. And then we put all the individual talents together for the highest good of the group. Understanding that the good of the group comes first is fundamental to being a highly productive member of a team.

John Wooden

A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group, that's teamwork.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

You will see a very diversified team of people.

And now they get to go home, and I think they're a different team at home.

Howard Schultz

All we want is what the other two teams have already been given.

All we can be thinking about is Montreal. That's the team we're trying to catch.

David Grant

All the teams at the sectional will be tough. We're just going to have to wrestle our best.

Willie Randolph

A lot has to do with how the team is playing.

Their athleticism is what makes them so good. They are outstanding athletes, but they are not a better team than we are.

This is our negotiation team in its infancy.

Eric Hobsbawm

The imagined community of millions seems more real as a team of eleven named people.

Reorganizing can be a wonderful method for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.

Peyton Manning

It goes without saying, winning against a good team in a hostile crowd on the road, it's just an absolutely huge win.

Peyton Manning

It's kind of boring to me if teams never throw the ball.

Peyton Manning

Touchdowns to me means that you're scoring points and helping your team win games. You can have a lot of yards and not have points and not win games. So, this only means something because it has helped our teams win games and we won the division today in a competitive AFC West, that's a good thing.

Pharrell Williams

I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.

Peter Crouch

I've got my own targets... To establish myself in the team and once you are a regular for Liverpool then England, recognition comes from that and hopefully this will prove the case.