Quotes About Team

No person can overcome a lousy team.

The game of basketball] impressed me as a glut of scoring, with few patterns of attack, and almost no defense anymore. The players, in a sense, had gotten better than the game, and the game became uninteresting. Moreover, it attracted exhibitionists who seemed more intent on amazing a crowd with aimless prestidigitation than with advancing their team by giving a sound performance. A quote from John McPhee from _A Sense of Where You Are_

I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.

The town, the team, it's a family. That has helped. For some people who have had to deal with some of the problems I have had to deal with don't have football as an out.

If The Muppet Show had a basketball team, the score would always be Frog 99, Chaos 98." (Jerry Juhl on the crazy workload of The Muppet Show)

IDEATION ITERATION CODIFICATION EXPANSION Dream / Idea Experiment Convictions Welcoming Team? Learn? Disciples? Sending

Traditional managers worry about how to get things done, while leaders worry about what things get done…(and trust their team to figure out how to do it).

In short, you should care because if you don't put effort into building and maintaining your culture, your team will eventually be overtaken by a strong personality who cultivates his culture in your team.

An engineer's skills are like the blade of a knife: you may spend tens of thousands of dollars to find engineers with the sharpest skills for your team, but if you "use" that knife for years without sharpening it, you will wind up with a dull knife that is inefficient, and in some cases useless.

There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.

I have a good team around me. I have people I trust around me. If I go the wrong way, they will yell at me. Just as they have in the past.

Abbott Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third. Costello That's what I want to find out.

You need a name." I covered the receiver for a moment. "We need a team name." "Hunters," Raphael said. "Valiant Knights of the Fur," Dali said. "Justice Group," Jim said. "Since Justice League is taken." "Fools." Doolittle shook his head. "Fools," I said into the receiver.

Look, he isn't even concerned." I poured the tea. "He's concerned, Mother. He just doesn't panic, because he's in charge and if he panics, everybody else will panic." "I can jog around the room pretending to scream if you would like," Jim offered.

I was so happy to be out of there. "Barabas, if you weren't batting for the other team, I'd marry you." He grinned. "If I weren't batting for the other team, I would accept your proposal. You had me at 'No comment.' If all my clients were this smart, my life would be much easier. Much, much easier.

If you ask a young man from my team, 'Would you rather deal with police or with White?' they'll tell you 'police' every time.

A team is a group of young men playing together. The program is the entirety of that.

I am always amazed at how many guys in the NBA have never met an owner much less ever been to an owner's house. We bought the team so that we would be able to be a positive force, so that they in turn would be a positive force to young people everywhere.

I know the feeling of being in a city - and a team winning a championship - as a young person, and then seeing the impact in the community, seeing the excitement for days, for weeks, for long stretch of time, and how special it can be.

Pakistan is a great team to be a part of and to see the emergence of young players is exciting.

There are a lot of young players here right now, and these guys are going to eventually learn as they go. Next year we can't use that as an excuse that we had so many young players on the team.

It's very important that Manchester United have four or five young players every year from the youth system.

The Cowboys have done a good job at developing young players.

It's every manager's dream, I suppose, to build a team by coaching young players of 15 to 17. That's why I started a youth scheme.