Quotes About Team

Governor is not the position to have in Oklahoma. It is the head coach of Oklahoma or Oklahoma State or Tulsa.

I always thought, it would be neat to make the Olympic team.

I can't believe that I'm on the Olympic team.

I was fortunate enough to coach the U.S. Olympic team in Australia.

When I took the job as the manager of the Olympic team, I didn't take it because I was a Dodger. I did it because I was an American, and I wanted to bring that gold medal where it belongs in baseball, the United States. And that's exactly what our team did.

I'm proud to be part of any Olympic team.

I saw a chance to make the 1988 Olympic boxing team and forgot all about football.

If I can inspire at least one per cent to live what I lived being a part of the Canadian Olympic team then I'm very happy with that.

And in nineteen seventy two I almost wasn't, on the team, but I knew about it just before Olympic Games for three months before this why this is was not very good for me. I'd been ready to go, you know.

Russell joined the team in December, 1956, following the Olympics.

You show up at the Olympics, and you're no longer you; you're an American Olympian. You're part of this greater whole, and the individual doesn't matter.

It's quite an honor to be selected to represent my country in the Olympics.

Everyone wants to make the Olympics. Everyone wants to pretty much just play on the team or at least try out.

Whenever you put on the Canadian jersey, it's an honor and it would be a huge honor to represent us at the Olympics.

I informed the team three years before the Olympics that I was retiring from indoor. It's not as if I left six months before the Olympics and left them with a gaping hole to fill. I retired in July of '89. The Olympics were July of '92.

I'm more mature, my game is more mature, and I can do a bunch of things on and off the court to fully maximize this team's potential.

I used to give out Mickey Mouse awards to people. I like Mickey Mouse because he represented certain values. He invested in people, was good to his friends and hard on his enemies. Once a year, I would have our management team from each division come to an offsite, and I would talk about Mickey Mouse.

No one country has a team that hold a monopoly on the league like Maccabi does in Israel.

I was the guy who didn't get a cool little apartment. I took one for the team. I liked having the place we could make noise in, the place that could be the center of the music. I sat down and calculated it one day, and over the years, I've had something like 38 roommates.

One of the things that is very important to me is how I feel about my team. And not just what their jobs are but what they mean to one another.

If you win one or two matches at home on good wickets, on grassy wickets, you'll develop confidence automatically.

If you sign nine new players at one time that could destroy the whole chemistry of the team.

I developed my game a lot and learned how to score off the dribble. I learned how to play team defense and one-on-one defense.

Every Olympics, when I was growing up and playing basketball, my parents and I made it a point to sit down and watch the U.S.A. compete. To join that team later, and play and practice one-on-one with David Robinson, Larry Bird, Chris Mullens and all these guys I looked up to, was a dream come true.