Team Quotes - Page 35

• Life is a team sport; it's not about you.

  Sue Enquist

  Sports, Life Is, Sports Team

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• I say to my team all the time that this is how I grew up: Always thinking that, at any minute, I could be unemployed. You have to scramble. You have to work hard and get ahead of things.

  Ursula Burns

  Hard Work, Thinking, Grew

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• You never compete with the people in your crew; you have your own team. Competition is only with those people whose film is releasing alongside on Friday and never with one's own team.

  Emraan Hashmi

  Friday, People, Competition

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• That helped us nurture not only the game's traditions but to develop its mythology: America's Team, The Catch, The Frozen Tundra.

  Steve Sabol

  Games, America, Frozen

  "Steve Sabol dies at age 69". www.espn.com. September 19, 2012.

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• There is no such thing as good enough. You, your team, and your equipment must be the best. That is how you will win victories.

  Gene Kranz

  Winning, Victory, Being The Best

  Gene Kranz (2009). “Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• If you’re chopping and changing the team you don’t get that word I can’t pronounce beginning with ‘C’.

  Paul Merson

  Chopping, Ifs, I Can

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• In the wake of the Cultural Revolution and now of the recession I observe a mounting pressure to co-operate and to promote "teamwork." For its anti-individualistic streak, such a drive is of course highly suspect; some people may not be so sensitive to it, but having seen the Hitlerjugend in action suffices for the rest of your life to be very wary of "team spirit." Very.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Teamwork, People, May

  "The strengths of the academic enterprise" by Edsger Dijkstra, www.cs.utexas.edu. February 9, 1994.

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• When you have five or six potential hall of famers on your team ... that's when you win penants and championships. The only thing you have to be concerned about is getting the ballplayers to bed on time.

  Joe DiMaggio

  Winning, Bed, Six

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• Anyone who has actually had to take responsibility for consequences by running any kind of enterprise whether economic or academic, or even just managing a sports team is likely at some point to be chastened by either the setbacks brought on by his own mistakes or by seeing his successes followed by negative consequences that he never anticipated.

  Thomas Sowell

  Sports, Running, Mistake

  "Ego and Mouth". www.realclearpolitics.com. November 2, 2008.

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• I have always had my doubts about any form of divine intervention in sports contests. The power of prayer may be remarkable in many other arenas, but why should God want my team to win instead of the other side? Isn't it insulting to request God to even take an interest in baseball?

  Roger Ebert

  Sports, Baseball, Prayer

  Roger Ebert (1995). “Roger Ebert's video companion: 1996 edition”

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• In high school, my sister went out with the captain of the chess team. My parents loved him... They figured that any guy that took hours to make a move was okay with them.

  Brian Kiley

  Moving, School, Guy

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• During my stage shows, I am so energetic. It's constant! I just don't stand still. I actually got given a mic stand from my team to say 'Just calm down. Stand still for at least two songs.' But now I just pick it up and walk around with it.

  Jessie J

  Song, Two, Calm

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

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• Trust is the glue that holds everything together. It creates the environment in which all of the other elements win-win stewardship agreements, self-directing individuals and teams, aligned structures and systems, and accountability can flourish.

  Stephen Covey

  Winning, Self, Agreement

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.243, Simon and Schuster

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• A new study found that students who are taught abstinence end up with better math scores. Of course, if you join the math team, the abstinence takes care of itself.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Math, Care, Taught

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• You can't hit my team in the groin and expect me to smile about it.

  Spiro T. Agnew

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• By the end of his career, he [Steve Jobs] has proven that he can do the impossible, and he has gathered probably the most loyal team of eight players of any business in America.

  Walter Isaacson

  Jobs, Player, Eight

  "Steve Jobs Biography Examines How Rule-Breaker Tied ‘Artistry to Engineering’". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. October 28, 2011.

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• I like to be a team player. All the projects I do are collaborations. And I want to solicit the opinions and help of other people. I'm not interested in being the one in charge.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Player, People, Collaboration

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• My job is to try to figure out how to fix things, and I'm going to fix things as best as I can. I'm going to get a team together to fix things. And I can't sit around and worrying what the heck the chairman of the Republican Party thinks about what I'm doing.

  John Kasich

  Jobs, Party, Thinking

  Source: time.com

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• Damian Lillard is having a better year than Chris Paul. Lillard got snubbed when he was left off of the USA Men’s Basketball team, and now the All-Star team.

  Kenny Smith

  Basketball, Stars, Men

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• At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter how good your PowerPoint slides are or your strategy or concept. What it really comes down to is your team. How motivated and willing are they to reinvent your organization and how much do they understand the evolving consumer need?

  Jeremy Gutsche

  Organization, The End Of The Day, Needs

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• Teams use trust as currency. If it is in short supply, then the team is poor. If trust abounds, the members of the team have purchase power with each other to access each others’ gifts, talents, energy, creativity, and love. The development of trust then becomes a significant leadership strategy. Trust creates the load limits on the relationship bridges among team members

  Reggie McNeal

  Creativity, Bridges, Limits

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• The thing about special teams - and I think football in general - is sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you.

  John Harbaugh

  Football, Thinking, Special

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• If I can impact an executive and his or her team, I can help to change the culture of an organization.

  Srikumar Rao

  Impact, Organization, Culture

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• Although I will deeply miss the talented team at SCEA and the passion demonstrated every day by our fans, I'm very excited about starting the next chapter of my career. I want to thank the employees, partners, and customers for their tireless commitment to the PlayStation brand and, of course, to our fans who have pushed us to new heights of innovation and entertainment over the past two decades. I leave PlayStation in a position of considerable strength and the future will only get brighter for PlayStation Nation.

  Jack Tretton

  Passion, Commitment, Past

  "Jack Tretton To Step Down As President And CEO Of Sony Computer Entertainment America". Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., www.prnewswire.com. March 06, 2014.

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• In the NFL, 31 players have been arrested just since the Super Bowl. In fact, a lot of teams are switching to the no-huddle offense because players aren't allowed to associate with known felons.

  Jay Leno

  Football, Player, Nfl

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