Quotes About Unity

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Most other competitions are individual achievements, but the Olympic Games is something that belongs to everybody.

A player who makes a team great is better than a great player.

Once I'm at the arena with the guys in the dressing room, and in the bus, and on the plane, I'm a player. And I sit in the back with the players and I play cards and try to take their money.

I've always had a great interest in sports that embody the values of commitment, hard work and teamwork - all values I strongly believe in.

If you played the game the right way, played the game for the team, good things would happen

In sports, teams win and individuals don't.

People have an opinion of Africa and it is not so good, but we have to let sport unite us all.

Sometimes, it's good to have a tremendous star, because everyone understands he has to get the ball.

Confidence is the invisible cement that binds a team together.

My favourite sport at school was rugby. All sports are teamwork, but rugby particularly is about teamwork and I think teamwork is the essence of this.

Life is a team sport; it's not about you.

The one man team is a complete and total myth.

Other than sports, only war and catastrophe can create this sort of national unity.

Wrestling is a team sport, and an individual sport all rolled into one.

This must be how the guys in Space Jam felt when MJ gave them their powers back through that old basketball.

Sitting here now today, I can forgive a lot of the English people because it only takes a hand full of bad people to do something stupid like that and it can make the whole country look bad.

A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.

Opponents confront us continually, but actually there is no opponent there. Enter deeply into an attack and neutralize it as you draw that misdirected force into your own sphere.

Sport is singularly able to give us peak experience where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.

As a player all you can do is play within yourself, even in the context of a team sport.

And that is the reason why this victory is great, because different players have made contributions to the win.

If we can't help our family, who are we going to help?

Commitment to the team - there is no such thing as in-between, you are either in our out.