Quotes About Teams

The best teams of Europe play in the Champions League.

I really think just the honor of playing on five championship teams in seven years is the best thing.

I think all 32 teams have the goal of winning a championship, that goes without saying.

I have friends who play for Chelsea, Liverpool, and Manchester United.

I would have loved to play for Liverpool, Manchester United or Chelsea.

I used to watch United, Manchester City, Chelsea and Arsenal, when Gilberto Silva used to play there.

I like the Bulls, the Bears - Chicago.

After I see in OKC, I see this is how NBA teams are. You know how you're like in a dream and you have a superpower and just don't want to open your eyes and end the dream? Oklahoma City's been like that to me.

For years, we've asked our suppliers to prioritize the talent and diversity of their sales teams calling on our company.

I have memories of watching the Champions League as a kid in France. We all supported different teams and they were intense moments. Great memories.

We want our teams to be able to entertain the supporters - they're such an important part of the industry, sometimes forgotten a bit. At the Amex they'll be very important for us. So we'll try and entertain. At the same time I know we're in the results business. I'm not naive.

You go to Madrid, you have four or five teams at the maximum level. You go to Milan, and it's the same. Napoli is similar to Newcastle in terms of everyone supporting one club in the city. It's positive and unique when you have that.

There are a lot of programs, a lot of teams now that have the backing of federations, the growth of the game domestically. You see this with Holland; you see this with Italy. It's a matter of time. I had to leave my home country to go and experience the game. Now, it's delightful that these countries are actively supporting women's football.

Of course the Premier League is the most difficult league in the world because it's so even. I think you can't really compare other leagues with the Premier League. In the Premier League, every team can beat every team, and in football, that's something where you can have surprises.

There are always surprises in the Champions League.

For entertainment there were only Mao Thought Propaganda Teams, who sang Mao's quotations set to raucous music.

Delta to Control, any sniper teams to the south of Embry? Any Gears at all?

Many players want to make as much money as they can and change teams for ten grand. How is that going to make much difference to their lives?

That's the nature of sport, if you look at how Europe has performed they have found a way to win but golf is cyclical and there's not much between the teams.

You also need to give people a role in dealing effectively with the transition process itself. The easiest way to do this is to be sure that everyone has some role on one of the planning task forces, climate survey groups, problem-solving circles, or transition monitoring teams.

Hierarchy often breaks down in the neutral zone, and mixed groupings, such as task forces and project teams, are often very effective. People may have to be given temporary titles or made "acting" managers.

I'd also designate twelve additional days as "growth days," holding intensive sessions with leadership teams to help them think through various growth or operations initiatives.

One of my favorite techniques is to require that teams provide me with a summary page at the beginning of the meeting or beforehand so that I could get the gist of the issue up front as well as the team's recommendations rather than waiting for the story to unfold.

One of my top priorities as CEO was to eradicate the BS and reinvent planning. Every year, starting in 2003, I required teams presenting to me to write a three-to-four-page executive summary that highlighted the basic plan. That document would allow us to cut through the pages of obfuscating charts and bullet points.