Teammate Quotes - Page 16

• If you're in the best team in the world, you or your teammate have to win.

  Fernando Alonso

  Team, Winning, World

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• A clean, hard-fought wrestling match is the most honest of athletic contests. There is no technological interventions, no teammates to blame, no panel of judges to bias the score. In wrestling, you compete or you quit. No alibis. I like that

  Dan Gable

  Wrestling, Judging, Athletic

  Gable, Dan (1998). “Coaching Wrestling Successfully”, p.25, Human Kinetics

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• The beach game taught me great lessons about how to elevate the play of my teammate, or teammates, and how to anticipate and expect the ball so much more than the indoor game ever could. It taught me - even forced me - to be a much better all-around player. That allowed me to help our USA Olympic Team in many more ways than I ever could have otherwise.

  Karch Kiraly

  Volleyball, Beach, Team

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• How good can we expect to be if our best player is not our best teammate

  Brad Stevens

  Basketball, Player, Nba

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• When you need a friend, you can always count on your teammates.

  Jim Brown

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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• I've never been a fan of individual awards because football is such a team sport. There's so many things that goes into making plays. It's about teammates trusting one another and working together.

  Troy Polamalu

  Sports, Football, Team

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• The greatest compliment to any player is he is a great teammate. We can't all be great players, but we can all be great teammates

  Jay Bilas

  Basketball, Player, Nba

  Jay Bilas (2013). “Toughness: Developing True Strength On and Off the Court”, p.28, Penguin

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  The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.

  Phil Jackson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

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• The team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

  Mia Hamm

  Soccer, Teamwork, Sacrifice

  Mia Hamm, Aaron Heifetz (2013). “Go For The Goal: A Champion's Guide To Winning In Soccer And Life”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• Messi not scoring? Great players aren't only great because of goals. If they don't score, they offer goals to teammates

  Bernd Schuster

  Player, Goal, Messi

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• I played on an all-boys team in the 8th grade, but they wouldnt throw me the ball even though I was on their team. One day I stole the ball from my own teammate and I made a basket. From that point on, everyone yelled Give the ball to the girl! I was the only girl on the whole league!

  Lisa Leslie

  Girl, Team, Boys

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• The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.

  Babe Ruth

  Teamwork, Business, Play

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

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• To be successful, you have to expose yourself to different situations-different styles of play, different teammates, different coaching.

  Sue Bird

  Successful, Play, Coaching

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• I was waiting for my teammates to embrace me and no one came, ... I told them, 'Come hug me or the referee isn't going to allow it.'

  Diego Maradona

  Waiting, Hug, Embrace

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• I may be 5 ft. 3 in., but my team makes me feel like I'm 10 feet tall, and it's a beautiful relationship. My teammates rely on me to lead and unite them with my words, and I love that my words make the boat go fast.

  Mary Whipple

  Beautiful, Team, Feet

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• You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Anger, Sunset, Discipline

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• Athletes are always talking about money at a time when everyone else is struggling so badly to make it. We all make way more than our fair share. And I just think it reflects poorly on myself and my teammates. I really do just want to win, and that has and will continue to be the reason that motivates me and is the biggest factor in my decision-making process.

  Tom Brady

  Struggle, Athlete, Winning

  "Tom Brady: Contract about winning", www.espn.com. February 27, 2013.

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• A passion for life is one of the most attractive qualities in a human being. If you want a teammate or a life mate who loves to be around you, all you need to do is love to be around.

  Denis Waitley

  Relationship, Passion, Quality

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• You need to work as hard to be a great teammate as you do to be a great player

  Jon Gordon

  Basketball, Player, Nba

  Twitter post from Oct 18, 2016

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• People do not get married planning to divorce. Divorce is the result of a lack of preparation for marriage and the failure to learn the skills of working together as teammates in an intimate relationship.

  Gary Chapman

  Divorce, Intimate Relationships, Skills

  Gary Chapman (2010). “Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married”, p.10, Moody Publishers

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• Commitment is a big part of what I am and what I believe. How committed are you to winning? How committed are you to being a good friend? To being trustworthy? To being successful? How committed are you to being a good father, a good teammate, a good role model? There's that moment every morning when you look in the mirror: Are you committed, or are you not?

  LeBron James

  Morning, Father, Believe

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