Team Sports Quotes

The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones. — Lou Holtz

I grew up on North American sports teams as well as English soccer clubs. — Ian Astbury

Some teachers feel that if they ask for emotional help, they're a failure. But teaching is a team sport. — Erin Gruwell

I took some important things with me from sports. Rock and roll is a team sport. You're only as good as your weakest link. — Jon Bon Jovi

If you're a sports fan you realize that when you meet somebody, like a girlfriend, they kind of have to root for your team. They don't have a choice. — Jimmy Fallon

I have a fond place in my heart for Seattle, so I hope that an NBA team comes back to this great city, this great sports city. — Magic Johnson

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

It's the nature of the beast, playing sports on the ski team and how competitive all of us are. I want to beat everybody's time. — Ted Ligety

In the 1970s, professional sports found a different breed of team owner in George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees. — Don Yaeger

I enjoyed being involved in team sports and making close friendships. — Brian McBride

Every guy should have a fantasy sports team. — Genesis Rodriguez

Players win games, teams win championships. — Bill Taylor

The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported. — Novak Djokovic

The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team. — Phil Jackson

The more baseball the better. It is a healthful sport and develops team play and initiative, plus an independent attitude. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

If you don't demand that your people maintain. High performances to remain on your team, Why should they be proud of the association? — Lou Holtz

Football is an honest game. It's true to life. It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life. — Joe Namath

I played a ton of team sports growing up, and team wins are just incredibly gratifying. — Jason Bateman

A fan without a team is like a hog without truffles - she has nothing to root for. — Carol Tavris

I was a team sports guy, but I don't do that anymore. When I work out, it's alone. — Jamie Bamber

The team has come along slow but fast. — Casey Stengel

Movies are a team sport now, and I want to play singles. — Terry Hayes

Kids on a team are like flowers in a bouquet, there is always one that wants to face a different way than the arranger desires. — John Kessel

Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball. — Ken Harrelson

Animation, by necessity, is a team sport, and the fewer people with input into my work, the better I like it. — Bill Watterson

The tragedy in sports is seeing a team beaten not by a better team, but by themselves. — Bud Grant

I don't think either team can win it. — Warren Brown

Whatever sport you're looking at, it's usually the team that makes the least mistakes that has the most success. — Joe Torre

I put the team on my back doh. — Greg Jennings

I love team sports - they give me something to focus on rather than the fact that I can't breathe or my muscles are aching. — Sanjeev Bhaskar

Journalism is a team sport. Writing novels is golf: it's you and the ball. — Pete Hamill

Some sports teams hate each other in the locker room and that's what makes them great. — Ira Kaplan

The great thing about playing team sport is you win and lose together, and the pain is never as bad when you share it. — Brian O'Driscoll

In a team sport like basketball, every time you help somebody else, you help yourself. — Pete Carril

The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable. — Wendell Pierce

Football is a team sport, and there is no one individual who is bigger than the next person. — Emmitt Smith

We had a good team on paper. Unfortunately, the game was played on grass. — Brian Clough

Any team sport, there are certain team targets and those targets should always be in the forefront. — Sachin Tendulkar

One man cannot make a team. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

A smart entrepreneur knows they cannot run a business on their own. They know that business is a team sport. — Robert Kiyosaki

I am very slow to warm. I've always been sort of a loner. I didn't play team sports. I am better one-on-one than in big groups. — Rooney Mara

The coach is the team, and the team is the coach. You reflect each other. — Darrell Royal

I used to play sports in school, but it was hard to do that because you're part of a team and you don't want to let your team down. — Elle Fanning

Sports are an acceptable way for men to show emotion. A guy who won't hug his kid will slip a guy a tongue in a sports bar when his team wins. — Richard Jeni

But the tricks I use are ones that will hopefully benefit the team. — Cristiano Ronaldo

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport. — Michael Keaton

I love winning and any team I'm on, I expect to win. — Landon Donovan

Every member of our baseball team at West Point became a general: this proves the value of team sports. — Omar N. Bradley

I'd like to coach the Liberty. That's my dream. But maybe I'd coach a college team. Either way, I'd like to stay involved in sports and to coach. — Sue Wicks

I love this game, I love this sport, I love this league. Why don't I get my own team? (English Premiership football club) — Roman Abramovich

A few mistakes don't worry me; what worries me is when you make the mistakes and then forget your role on the team and start to worry about your ego. — Digger Phelps

If you can pick up a ground ball you'll play for any team you want. — Marcus Holman

Theater and sports are connected. You've got your team - or ensemble - your goal and your determination to win. — Kevin Daniels

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

Having a woman on the team is stirring things inside me that I never felt before while on the job. — Collette West

What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination. — Jeffrey Katzenberg

[When asked how someone 6'3 had dared take up golf:] I was too tall to make the chess team in my high school, so I tried golf. — Carol Mann

To be as good as it can be, a team has to buy into what you as the coach are doing. They have to feel you're a part of them and they're a part of you. — Bobby Knight

An "eye" on the vision is more important than an "I" on the vision. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

A player who makes a team great is better than a great player. — John Wooden

I support the French team - I go to all their matches - but I don't want to use sport for politics. That's not good for sport or for politics. — Francois Hollande

People here don't identify themselves by their sports team. — Michael Wilbon

It was what made him good at team sports: soccer, basketball, politics. Miller — James S.A. Corey

Team guts always beat individual greatness. — Robert Zuppke

I talked to the team a lot about staying power. You never find out if you have that until you've been beaten down a few times. — Bill Parcells

The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn't really compete against another team. — Cal Thomas

Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference. — Robert Griffin III

Sports were a big part of my life. I was the captain of the basketball team in high school, and captain of the basketball team at Princeton. — John W. Rogers Jr.

I was a huge athlete as a kid. I was on every sports team. — Bonnie Bassler

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team. — Bud Wilkinson

Anytime you play a team sport, the success of the team really makes everything better. It's nice. — Ricky Williams

Today, we are the only people who are more likely to own a professional sports team than to play for one. — Celso Cukierkorn

Baseball is a team sport played by individuals for themselves. — Joe Torre

This team is one execution away from being a very good basketball team. — Doc Rivers

I hated golf when we first started, but a big part of the training process was falling in love with this sport, so I went on tour with the UCLA Team. — Shia Labeouf

If you make it into an Olympic team, you're good; if you make it into an Olympic final, you're great; and if you win an Olympic medal you're a freak. — Raelene Boyle

True champions are team players. — Alan Cohen

My dad bought the team when I was little. I've been around guys like you my whole life. I'm over the whole 'jock-and-awe' thing. — Jaci Burton

Business is a team sport. — Greg Brenneman

There is no cheap way to achieve the ability to turn pro in tennis; it unfortunately is more expensive than team sports. — Martina Navratilova

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

Always have a 'Plan C — Zoltan Andrejkovics

When it comes to matters of pro sports, politics or palate, disparate sides claim their party, team and cola to be superior. — Jen Lancaster

We have a heard of gold, and that's what this medal is right here. It's a team that will never give up. — Joseph Hagerty

I think team sports probably teach you more about giving - about being unselfish and being flexible. — Chris Evert

Coaches need to have the ability of tact - to teach the team to rub out mistakes rather than to rub them in. — John Kessel

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field? — Jim Bouton

In any team sport, the best teams have consistency and chemistry. — Roger Staubach

When I used to play sports, I'd be the one cheering the team on, 'Come on, we can beat these guys!' That's just in me. — Joel Osteen

Faded like morning fog in the rising sun, sports team logo on a cheap T-shirt, ninety-nine dollar paint job on a Chevy. — Dennis Vickers

Acting is probably the number one team sport in America as far as I'm concerned. — Neal McDonough

Business and investing are team sports. — Robert Kiyosaki

As someone who played a team sport, I feel a bit uncomfortable being ranked as an individual so high — Franz Beckenbauer

If teams had to name themselves honestly, they'd all be the Pimple-Faced Teenagers. — Eric Berlin

I've liked the Yankees since I was a kid. I grew up in Canada so I kind of identified with New York sports teams. — Ian Astbury

Isn't cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport. — Sachin Tendulkar

This team just wasn't good enough today, but they had the unity I always wanted. To have an American team like this has always been a dream of mine. — Bela Karolyi

Winning is about having the whole team on the same page. — Bill Walton

You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I'll show you a pennant. I'll show you the New York Yankees. — Bill Lee

I only want my team to play to its potential, as I perceive it to be. I really don't have any regard for anyone else's perception. — Bill Parcells