Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patrick Roy

Usually when you play a team, you want to focus on one line. Pittsburgh is the only team where you have to focus on one player [Mario Lemieux]. When he's coming toward you, all you see is him.

Patrick Dixon

You will learn more about the people you work with in three minutes by asking them what they do for nothing, than by working with them for three years in the same team

Patrick Dixon

Mission is at the heart of what you do as a team. Goals are merely steps to its achievement.

Patrick Ewing

The greatest players fit with the team. They play within the team's style, rather than asking the team to change its style.

Frank Lampard

Everyone's got unfinished business with Barcelona. They're the greatest team in the world.

Frank Lampard

They're a very offensive team and even without Thierry Henry they can still do damage to you all over the pitch. (on Arsenal)

Frank Lampard

But to be fair, Arsenal are a quality side. They're not where they are by chance - they are not top of the league and unbeaten because they are a bad team.

Frank Lampard

Remember every team wants to beat Chelsea, probably even more than Manchester United or Arsenal because they believe we have an unfair advantage.

Frank Lampard

Of course, there will be few people who are sympathetic but you don't become a great team overnight, no matter how much money you have at your disposal.

Frank Lampard

Barcelona are my favourite team in Spain, let's put it that way.

Lynn Swann

If a player demonstrated that he is the best, and a team decides, even so, we don't want to pay him, as in any other business, he should be able to play elsewhere.

Guus Hiddink

You can't have three defenders moving up and one going back. The decisions a team makes are important. As a whole.

Guus Hiddink

I am responsible for the team and a journalist should be responsible for his article.

Greg Brown

Teamwork is not a matter of persuading yourself and your colleagues to set aside personal ambitions for the greater good. It's a matter of recognizing that your personal ambitions and the ambitions of the team are one and the same. That's the incentive.

Gordon Taylor

Nobody could say it is not gross misconduct to fight on the pitch with team-mates and get yourself sent off.

Gordon Strachan

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.

Gordon Strachan

He [Sir Alex Ferguson] used to play tapes of Bill Shankly talking. I remember that and a singer he liked. I don't know who it was but it was crap. He played it on the team bus too, and all the boys hated it. Until one night it got chucked away. If he's still wondering who threw that tape off the bus, it was me. So maybe he was right and I'm not to be trusted.....

John Cleese

There are 3 basic differences between we British and you Americans. One, we speak English, and you don't. Two, when we have a "World Championship", we invite teams from other nations. Three, when you meet the British head of State, you only have to get down on one knee.

John Cleese

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

John Breaux

Congress should not be like the Super Bowl where you have to have one team that's going to win and another team that's going to be a loser.

Lupe Fiasco

My whole team, it wasn't about putting the album out, it was about getting off the record company and going independent or going to another label. To the point we were like, 'Listen, just take 'Lasers.' You can have whatever percentage off the next ten records I do for the rest of my life. I just do not want to be here anymore.'

Luis Garcia

When playing against big teams, it's the small details that count.

Luis Suarez

In the Premier League you never really know what is going to happen. There is very little between the teams.

Luis Suarez

I know what my strengths are and what theirs are and what the three of us do is play for the good of the team.

Luis Suarez

I worry when I can’t help the team with everything I have to offer.

Luis Suarez

I've got a magnificent relationship with Leo (Messi) and Ney (Neymar). They drive the team, with Andres Iniesta as well - what a player. You know if you have a good relationship with them off the pitch it will be that way on the pitch too. They took it as a sign that I had come to help them, not to compete with them.

Luis Suarez

I'd have to say I enjoy myself a lot more, really. I don't feel so much responsibility as I did in other teams. It felt sometimes at Ajax and Liverpool that it had to be me. Now, every time I go out on to the pitch, I enjoy myself and laugh. I have gone through too many difficult times in my career and I don't want to keep thinking about them.

John Cena

I hate any match that isn't a traditional Tag Team Match or a traditional Singles Match, because anything can happen. It's truly one of those deals where it's all about being in the right place at the right time.

Henrik Sedin

You could feel it on the bench. The team was so much more relaxed.

Matt Hasselbeck

The Seahawks have only been around since 1976, so our fan base is relatively young. You talk about the Patriots, or the Celtics or, obviously, Red Sox and Bruins. Your grandfather's father was a fan of that team. People have lived there their whole lives.

Matt Holliday

You get into pro ball and you realize all the guys were the best players on their teams. You have to keep moving forward.

Meg Whitman

People ask me, how is managing in the New Economy different from managing in the Old Economy? Actually, it's a lot the same. It's about the financial discipline of the bottom line, understanding your customers, segmenting your customers by their needs, and building a world-class management team.

Max de Pree

Without forgiveness, there can be no real freedom to act within a group.