Team Quotes - Page 26

• None of the teams that actually probably were offering me a job from the getgo, actually in spring training, are in the playoffs right now.

  Pedro Martinez

  Jobs, Spring, Offering

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• Everything we talk about is about beating the Packers, the Bears and the Vikings. Obviously there are other teams in the league, but if you can dominate and be on top of your division you are always in the playoff hunt. It's time for us to win that thing.

  Steve Mariucci

  Winning, League, Division

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• Really, throughout my career, what I've done is taken teams with bad records and with every situation I've made them better.

  Don Nelson

  Taken, Careers, Done

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• When you have bad teams, you've got to be creative to win games you're not supposed to win.

  Don Nelson

  Winning, Games, Creative

  "Nelson: 'Luckiest guy in the world'" by Marc Stein, www.espn.com. September 6, 2012.

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• It's fun to work the robotic arm in part because it's really a team effort.

  Ellen Ochoa

  Fun, Effort, Arms

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• Even on the greatest teams, there's always one role player.

  Keith Olbermann

  Player, Roles

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• Roc Nation is such an incredible, unique team, especially in the music industry. Everyone genuinely loves and cares about each other.

  Rita Ora

  Unique, Care, Incredibles

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And Barry Levinson is insanely funny. I don't know if you know this, not everyone does, but he and Craig T. Nelson were a comedy team back in the coffeehouse days of the late '60s.

  Kevin Pollak

  Doe, Comedy, Late

  Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. March 8, 2012.

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• Managing can be more discouraging than playing, especially when you're losing because when you're a player, there are at least individual goals you can shoot for. When you're a manager all the worries of the team become your worries.

  Al Lopez

  Player, Goal, Worry

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• But then southern hemisphere teams are more skilful than their northern hemisphere counterparts, which means games can be easier to referee.

  Alan Lewis

  Mean, Games, Southern

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• I do my own analysis on the teams I am refereeing. I will know some of the personalities, the players who could be difficult customers in a scrum situation, the ones I am going to have to really work hard on early in the game to get what I want.

  Alan Lewis

  Hard Work, Player, Games

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• It is pretty amazing. My parents, who came from Nicaragua to the U.S. - who would have thought that they would have American kids on the Olympic team? I think that's the epitome of the Olympic dream.

  Diana Lopez

  Dream, Kids, Thinking

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• Not to be narcissistic, but I truly believe in order to make yourself better, you should see what you did before and what was good about that and what wasn't - same way a football team plays a game and then they go back and watch film.

  Jake Owen

  Football, Believe, Order

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• It's always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone - sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.

  Alain Prost

  People, Helping, Language

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've been around enough to know what it takes to get a team to reach its potential, and I want players who want to reach their potential.

  Bill Parcells

  Player, Want, Enough

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• To have been selected to represent Team South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the individual 400m and the 4x400m relay is a real honor and I am so pleased that years of hard work, determination and sacrifice have all come together.

  Oscar Pistorius

  Determination, Real, Hard Work

  "'Blade runner' Pistorius handed dream double Olympic ticket", www.cnn.com. July 5, 2012.

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• I have a phenomenal team behind me who have helped get me here and I, along with them, will now put everything we can into the final few weeks of preparations before the Olympic Games, where I am aiming to race well, work well through the rounds, post good times and maybe even a personal best time on the biggest stage of them all.

  Oscar Pistorius

  Race, Games, Preparation

  "London 2012 Olympics: Amputee Oscar Pistorius picked for men's 400m" by Owen Gibson, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2012.

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• To distract from the president's disappointing record, Team Obama has decided to base their entire campaign on attacking the private sector and Mitt Romney's career as a successful businessman.

  Reince Priebus

  Successful, Careers, President

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• I was writing very early, like I was involved in our high school literary magazine, which was called 'Pariah.' The football team was the Bears, and the literary magazine was 'Pariah.' It was great. It was definitely a real sub-culture. But I wrote stories for them.

  Tom Perrotta

  Football, Real, School

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• If I had tried the Olympics any younger, I wouldn't have been as prepared as I am right now. But there are definitely a ton of juniors out there, all around the world and in the USA, that if there was no age limit, they could definitely make the Olympic team.

  Aly Raisman

  Usa, Age, World

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• When I first turned elite in gymnastics, when I was 14, that's when I really became more inspired than ever. I just always kept that in the back of my mind, and always thought about making the 2012 team.

  Aly Raisman

  Gymnastics, Mind, Firsts

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• As a former member of President Obama's economic team, I have a soft spot for the fiscal stimulus legislation he signed just a month after his inauguration.

  Christina Romer

  President, Months, Economic

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• I really feel like that concept of enjoying the now and not worrying about the future is what my coach has been trying to teach me for 14 years - and that is what has made me such a different athlete 10 years later, and that is what has made me strong enough mentally to make this Olympic team.

  Melanie Roach

  Strong, Athlete, Years

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• I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan making Super-8 movies.

  Sam Raimi

  Kids, Michigan, Actors

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. June 29, 2004.

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• I've worked in network and cable on and off for a number of years, and you just understand what your parameters are. A lot of times, I think the best work that my team has come up with comes from having to deal with certain boundaries.

  Shawn Ryan

  Thinking, Years, Numbers

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