Team Quotes - Page 16

• In the name of all competitors I promise that we will take part in these Olympic Games, respecting and abiding by all the rules which govern them, in the true spirit of sportsmanship, for the glory of sport and the honour of our teams.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Leadership, Sports, Games

  "The Olympic Idea: Discourses and Essays". Book by Carl Diem, 1970.

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• I don't think either team can win it.

  Warren Brown

  Leadership, Sports, Winning

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• I once said coaching a first-year team was a religious experience. You do a lot of praying - but most of the time the answer is NO.

  Bill Fitch

  Leadership, Sports, Religious

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• When you travel with the team and you eat with the team - you eat what the team eats.

  Vince Lombardi

  Leadership, Sports

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• Life is a game - sometimes serious, sometimes fun - but a game that must be played with true team spirit.

  Shelagh Delaney

  Leadership, Sports, Fun

  Shelagh Delaney (1963). “Sweetly Sings the Donkey”

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• I've swum for my country, I've swum for my coaches and my schools and my teams. I decided this time I was going to swim for myself.

  Janet Evans

  Leadership, Sports, Country

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• 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

  Leadership, Sports, Mistake

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• In a team sport like basketball, every time you help somebody else, you help yourself.

  Pete Carril

  Leadership, Basketball, Sports

  Pete Carril, Dan White (2004). “The Smart Take from the Strong: The Basketball Philosophy of Pete Carril”, p.70, U of Nebraska Press

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• 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

  Leadership, Sports, Flower

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• If there is something a coach might wish to see changed in a player or team, the first place to check and see if it could not be done better is in yourself.

  John Kessel

  Leadership, Sports, Player

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• You get a team that goes out there and they find a little bit of something that advantage is going to seem larger then it is if the rules were not as tight because it's harder for other people to find whatever that advantage may be. I'm not saying points leader Tony Stewart has a huge advantage. What they've got is that they are hitting everything exactly right. When they have everything working just right, that's how it shows to be dominant.

  Chad Knaus

  People, Leader, Hitting

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• I'll attend all my team's games

  Ranbir Kapoor

  Games

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• You know, I never looked down the road and said, 'Hey look, one day, the Hall of Fame.' It's always about playing each and every game 100 percent and I thank my teammates for getting me into the Hall because football is a team sport, not an individual sport.

  Jerry Rice

  Sports, Football, Games

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• I began my first Cabinet meeting since the terrorist attacks. As I stepped into the room, the team broke out in sustained applause. I was surprised, and I choked up at their heartfelt support. The tears flowed for the second time in two days.

  George W. Bush

  Two, Support, Heartfelt

  George W. Bush (2010). “Decision Points”, p.145, Random House

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• When it was my turn, I just skated out and heard this huge cheer. It was very touching considering the bad circumstances under which I had left the team and that I had been away for four years.

  Ted Lindsay

  Cheer, Years, Touching

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• The last few years I became a lot more into sports. Growing up, the sports I liked were independent sports, like skateboarding. I was really into skateboarding, and not necessarily team televised sports.

  Mark Hoppus

  Sports, Growing Up, Independent

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• It takes a number of critical factors to win an NBA championship, including the right mix of talent, creativity, intelligence, toughness, and of course, luck. But if a team doesn’t have the most essential ingredient - love - none of those other factors matter.

  Phil Jackson

  Creativity, Winning, Nba Championships

  Phil Jackson, Hugh Delehanty (2013). “Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success”, p.10, Penguin

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• The most DIFFICULT thing for individuals to do when they become part of a team is to sacrifice, it is much EASIER to be selfish.

  Pat Riley

  Selfish, Sacrifice, Individual

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• I'm lucky to be part of a team who help to make me look good, and they deserve as much of the credit for my success as I do for the hard work we have all put in on the training ground.

  Lionel Messi

  Hard Work, Training, Lucky

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• From the very start in 1969, I wanted to be a part of helping our Special Olympics athletes succeed. I wanted to be on Eunice Shirver's team as another set of eyes, another set of hands and a heart working to be there for them, finding a way to help them be the best they can be.

  Rafer Johnson

  Heart, Athlete, Eye

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• I am a believer in passing the ball on the ground, I was lucky to be part of teams like that at Arsenal, with the French national team and with Monaco and at Barcelona. I know you can win in other ways, but I believe that is the way football should be played.

  Thierry Henry

  Football, Believe, Winning

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• The morning we left South Bend, every student and professor was out of bed long before breakfast and marched downtown accompanying the team to the railroad station. It was the first time I'd seen anything like this mass hysteria generated on the Notre Dame campus over a football game.

  Knute Rockne

  Football, Morning, Games

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• If you asked Rahul Dravid to walk on glass for his team, his only question would be - 'How many miles?' That just shows you how great a man he is.

  Harsha Bhogle

  Men, Glasses, Would Be

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• God made us for more than just barely getting by. We weren't meant to sit on the sidelines of life because with God, we are on the winning team!

  Joel Osteen

  Winning, Made, Barely Getting By

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• Theres a place in my heart for every team I played on.

  Gary Carter

  Heart, My Heart

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