Jerry West Quotes

Everyone always says you have to be on the best team, the team that wins. Oh, no, no, no. I disagree with that.

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• The Olympics were great, because you had to make the team, and then go to the games. Now, I don't know, these guys today don't want to do anything like that.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Great
  • Today
  • Team

• I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • World
  • Women
  • Today

• I have a great team at WME.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Great
  • Team
  • Great Team

• I come from Nigeria, and we live by the idea that it takes a village. So my entire team. I live by my team: my friends, my neighbors, my teachers - they're the people who taught me how to be a free actor.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • People
  • Live
  • Friends

• Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.

  

  Bart Starr
  • Team
  • Support
  • Winning

• Whenever I get an audition to do something that is sci-fi-related, it makes me really happy because I realize that I can continue doing the work that I'm doing and continue meeting people all over the world. It does baffle my management team sometimes, though!

  

  J. August Richards
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• Sometimes you're going to have someone on your team who's just not comfortable with being open. You have to ask yourself, 'Is this person going to allow us to be a real team?' Maybe they're not right for your team. You have to be willing to lose someone sometimes.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Real
  • Team
  • Sometimes

• It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.

  

  Cam
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• As a hockey player, playing for an Original Six team at Madison Square Garden, where it's packed every night, there's nothing like it.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Night
  • Team
  • Player

• There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• Sometimes you can press a little bit and you're trying to do too much and you're trying too hard. You want to win so bad and you want to help the team so badly that you end up trying too much instead of letting the play come to you.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Bad

• It was the best job I ever had. I just left because my whole team was leaving and the new guys were coming.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Job
  • Team
  • Best

• I have to take care of my family, my team, and my legacy.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Family
  • Team
  • Legacy

• We haven't had the success we had hoped to achieve. Josh McDaniels is the head coach of the Broncos and you always strive for stability at that position. However, with five games left in the 2010 season, we will continue to monitor the progress of the team and evaluate what's in the best interest of this franchise.

  

  Pat Bowlen
  • Success
  • Team
  • Best

• A collection of strong-minded individuals who have learned how to dismiss mistakes, disappointments and problems in their personal life make up a strong team. If the majority of the team have that then, as a unit, you are almost impossible to beat.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Life
  • Up
  • Strong

• I had a lot of times with Wales as well when we were getting beat - and beaten well - and you learn to deal with it. You learn that next time it happens, you roll your sleeves up and give everything for the team.

  

  Gary Speed
  • Up
  • Time
  • Team

• 'Planet Earth' was such an extraordinary series and the 'Making Of'... is fascinating: the creatures and stories behind the camera are just as fascinating as those in front. It's a bit of a dream come true to be a part of the team in some small way.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • True
  • Dream
  • Earth

• If you're on the varsity team, the responsibilities are a lot bigger and there's more stress, but you also walk around feeling probably like you can hold your head high.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • High
  • Feeling
  • Team

• He's a coach, but he shows humility as well. He doesn't claim to know everything. He gives guys ownership of the team as well, and when guys feel like they have ownership, they feel responsible if the team wins or loses.

  

  Bart Scott
  • Team
  • Humility
  • Coach

• 'Make your plate look like a Christmas tree,' I tell people, 'mostly green with splashes of other bright colors.'

  

  Victoria Moran
  • People
  • Tree
  • Green

• I know that many in Germany think we have a merry financial policy over here.

  

  Paolo Gentiloni
  • Think
  • Know
  • Financial

• That utterance of Jesus, "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's," is one of the most revolutionary and history-making utterances that ever fell from those lips divine. That utterance, once and for all, marked the divorcement of church and state. It marked a new era for the creeds and deeds of men.

  

  George W Truett
  • Church
  • State
  • Utterances

• Everyone always says you have to be on the best team, the team that wins. Oh, no, no, no. I disagree with that.

  

  Jerry West
  • Team