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Cris and I made a good team, me with my reverence for the classics and him taking the piss.

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• I think that any time you're able to get a guy like Carmelo Anthony to be on your team, you're going to be a step up.

  

  Earl Monroe
  • Up
  • Time
  • Guy

• 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

• Baseball is a team game.

  

  Eddie Murray
  • Game
  • Team
  • Baseball

• I never really felt I had the same respect as my male team-mates. My opinion wasn't worth as much. I used to sit quietly in meetings and not say anything, as I knew my opinions would be disregarded. And that's after I had become Olympic champion and multiple world champion.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • World
  • Team
  • Respect

• Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster, as the National Audit Office has confirmed.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Money
  • Bad
  • Team

• The good news for us is the NHL has never been stronger, never been more popular, and that, I guess, has led to a lot of interest being expressed from a number of places, an interest in getting an expansion team, and Las Vegas happens to be one of those places.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Good
  • Team
  • Popular

• I've been on a team that won the world championship of barbecue. But barbecue's interesting, because it's one of these cult foods like chili, or bouillabaisse. Various parts of the world will have a cult food that people get enormously attached to - there's tremendous traditions; there's secrecy.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • World
  • Interesting

• I never really hated any particular sport but out of all the sports, I used to prefer the team games to running and sprinting and those types of things.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Team
  • Running
  • Never

• Companies generally work better when they are smaller. It's always worth spending time to think about the least amount of projects/work you can feasibly do, and then having as small a team as possible to do it.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Time
  • Work
  • Small

• I know that any group of people can become a team if they do the right things, but I came to realize over time that if you acquire or develop the right kind of people, that process of building a team is going to be much more effective and easier.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Time
  • Team

• Yet as a team, we can pull together to do some incredible work.

  

  Randy West
  • Work
  • Together
  • Team

• How you deal with adversity says a lot about the kind of players you've got and the kind of team we've got.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Team
  • Kind
  • Adversity

• I like being part of a big company's executive team. It's fun to stretch other parts of my brain, considering questions like, 'How should we think of acquisitions?' I get to be privy to things that would never come up at a small company.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Small

• Team members need to be able to admit their weaknesses and mistakes, to acknowledge the strengths of others, and to apologize when they do something wrong.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Team
  • Need
  • Mistakes

• The team which handles the pressure best, carries the day.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Team
  • Day
  • Best

• Throughout the day, I'm always thinking about 500, the team, and how we can do things harder/better/faster/stronger.

  

  Christine Tsai
  • Thinking
  • Team

• Really the team often will take on the personality of its coach.

  

  Mark Messier
  • Team
  • Personality

• You need a lot of leaders, but a hockey team needs a voice, not only in the community, but more importantly between the coaching staff and the players. There are always ups and downs in a season; the captain is the guy players look to in those situations.

  

  Joe Sakic
  • Guy
  • Team
  • Community

• I was disappointed in everything - my start and the team's start. People got down on me, but I never got down on myself. I still believed I could be the type of player everyone, including me, thought I was going to be.

  

  Eric Davis
  • People
  • Team
  • Player

• In a democracy, you can be right and still lose power.

  

  James Wolfensohn
  • Power
  • Democracy

• Snow White gets a Social Security card. She gets a job building houses out in California. Picks oranges.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Building
  • Picks
  • Snow White

• Look for someone who has a complete life without you in it. If you have a person you don't need for anything, that's ideal. You're just together because you really want to be.

  

  Kirstie Alley
  • Life
  • Together

• I just work - however people feel about it, I mean, at the end of the day, if I'm waiting for accolades, I could be waiting all my life, but I don't need that stuff to validate me. I just do what makes me happy.

  

  Nick Cannon
  • People
  • Mean
  • Waiting

• Cris and I made a good team, me with my reverence for the classics and him taking the piss.

  

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  • Piss