Famous Quotes & Sayings

Red Auerbach

And I have been very blessed, having coached some of the greatest that have ever played the game. But if I had to start a team today, the greatest player and the one guy I would take would be Larry Bird.

Rob Bell

The best team does not always win, it's the team that plays the best.

Richard Roeper

When we root-root-root for the home team, we're rooting for our home as much as the team.

Richard Rodriguez

In the Sacramento of the 1950s, it was as though White simply hadn't had time enough to figure Brown out. It was a busy white time. Brown was like the skinny or fat kids left over after the team captains chose sides. You take the rest — my cue to wander away to the sidelines, to wander away.

Tracy McGrady

Great execution. That's what you have to do when you're playing great teams.

Tracy Hickman

One of the things about a great team is that the whole exceeds the sum of its partners.

Sandra Day O'Connor

We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.

Rogers Hornsby

I've cheated, or someone on my team has cheated, in almost every single game I've been in.

Robert Schumann

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Roger Goodell

This is an opportunity to create a better future for the NFL, to improve the game for our fans, and to expand the economic benefits for the players and teams. Staying with the status quo is not an option. The world has changed for everyone, including the NFL and our fans. We must get better in everything we do ... If both sides compromise and give a little, everyone will get a lot, especially the fans.

Satya Nadella

I think playing cricket taught me more about working in teams and leadership that has stayed with me throughout my career.

Satchel Paige

One time I snuck a ball on with me and when I went to winding up, I threw one of them balls to first and one to second. I was so smooth I picked off both runners and fanned the batter without that ump or the other team even knowing it.

Sanath Jayasuriya

I want to convey a message to the Sri Lankan government that they should seriously consider sending Sri Lankan Cricket Team to Pakistan.

William Standish Knowles

In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics.

Walter Isaacson

Vision w/o execution is just hallucination. You need the right combination of visionary + team that can execute

Walter Isaacson

Most of the collaborations of technology were done by teams...Collaboration is key to creativity

Yishan Wong

I'm not looking to step in and make 'big, bold changes' - I think reddit is great, and the team has a lot of good features already in the pipeline to improve functionality for users and mods, help with subreddit discovery, improve the API, and help bring reddit to more people.

Yogi Berra

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Winston Churchill

When you're going through hell - just keep on going!

Winston Churchill

The Golcondas were considered incomparably the best team in Southern India ... [But] we defeated [them] by 9 goals to 3. On succeeding days we made short work of all other opponents, and established the record, never since broken, of winning a first-class tournament within fifty days of landing in India.

Winston Churchill

If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary.

Willie McGinest

They need to do two things if they’re going to be great and win a championship: take the ball away and keep teams out of the end zone. You have those two things, that’s the recipe for a championship.

William J. H. Boetcker

It is not what people do when they work, but what they do when they don't work that causes all their troubles.

Vinny Testaverde

Nobody is expecting us to do anything. We can't let that perception become our reality, because with the ability on this team, if everybody can pick it up a notch, we'll be fine. It's not going to be Brooks coming in saving the day, or myself. It's got to be everybody as a unit playing consistent. If it happens, it's going to be great. It will be something like I've never experienced.

Virender Sehwag

Nothing is more thrilling than winning a match for your team.

Woody Hayes

It's never an upset if the so-called underdog has all along considered itself the better team.

Woody Hayes

Even the best team, without a sound plan, can't score.

Woodrow Wilson

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Yannick Noah

It made me hungry. I feel like I'm in a program that really helped me individually as a player. I feel like I'm with a group of guys that are like my best friends.

Wilma Mankiller

Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward.

Will Self

Regard yourself as a small corporation of one. Take yourself off on team-building exercises (long walks). Hold a Christmas party every year at which you stand in the corner of your writing room, shouting very loudly to yourself while drinking a bottle of white wine. Then masturbate under the desk. The following day you will feel a deep and cohering sense of embarrassment.

Wes Walz

We're just a fragile team right now. It seems like when we have a little bit of adversity, when something goes wrong, you can feel it on the bench, it kind of sinks. Unless we get a goal or something really positive happens, it's tough. I think falling out of the playoff race takes the wind out of your sails for sure.

Warren Farrell

Although our grammar schools are teaching a whole generation computer language to adjust to the technological needs of a Stage II [post survival-focused] society, we have neglected to teach this generation relationship language and conflict resolution skills to address the social and psychological needs of a Stage II society. And when it is taught, in countries like Germany, although called social competence it focuses on workplace teamwork -- still on survival, breadwinner oriented work goals.