Dawn Staley Quotes

We were rattled. A team like Rutgers, they play in spurts, and they didn't have a large spurt. We certainly knew we had it in us to get back in the game if we stayed focused.

Dawn Staley

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• 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
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• 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
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• I had been on this improv team at this really great improv theater. It's called iO now. It used to be called Improv Olympic. They have showcases for Lorne Michaels and other writers and people who work at 'SNL' usually about once a year, although I don't know if it always happens.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
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• 'The Hunger Games' has something for everyone.

  

  Natalie Dormer
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  • Hunger

• Of course managers win ball games.

  

  Walter Alston
  • Win
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• Throughout my entire life, I've always been a captain. I was the captain of my high school team. I was the captain at Oklahoma State University. I was the captain of the 2008 Olympic team.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• 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

• You have to build trust among team members so that people feel free to admit what they don't know, make mistakes, ask for help if they need it, apologize when necessary, and not hold back their opinions.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Help
  • Free

• The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • People
  • World
  • Team

• I played lots of fantasy games. I would create these worlds, and I would believe in them.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Believe
  • Games
  • Create

• I remember the first time I played the triple-A Yankees when I was 20 years old, and Darryl Strawberry was on that team. It was the first time I actually got goose bumps playing against another team.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Team

• You can never take a day off, because there's an All-Star on every team.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • You
  • Team
  • Day

• A good team, like a good show, comes into being when the separate individuals working together create, in essence, another separate higher entity - the team - the show - which is better than any of those individuals can ever be on their own.

  

  Gary David Goldberg
  • Good
  • Together
  • Team

• Like every mom, you try to juggle, but I also want people to know that you don't have to be a superhero. I'm not a superhero; I have a team of people who help me. I have a great family support system.

  

  Kimora Lee Simmons
  • People
  • Great
  • Family

• Technology can be biased in how it's developed if coders aren't careful. There are apps that are clearly made by companies with no people of color on their team.

  

  Kimberly Bryant
  • People
  • Team
  • Technology

• My own little rule was two for one. If one of my teammates got knocked down, then I knocked down two on the other team.

  

  Don Drysdale
  • Team

• I don't like it when a player says, 'I like freedom; I want to play for myself.' Because the player has to understand he is part of a team with 10 other players. If everyone wants to be a jazz musician, it will be chaos. They will not be a team, and nothing will be possible.

  

  Pep Guardiola
  • Freedom
  • Team
  • Player

• Our team at Duolingo is really cohesive, but this did not just happen. I made a concerted effort to hire people who are going to play nice.

  

  Luis von Ahn
  • People
  • Team
  • Nice

• It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.

  

  Alfred Loisy
  • God
  • Personality
  • Reflection

• I am one of those faces that it's sometimes, 'Oh my God, you look so familiar, but I can't pinpoint it.'

  

  Lindsey McKeon
  • God

• I think if you get your fifth script made, that's the fast track. But there's no guarantee any of them will get made.

  

  Geoffrey S. Fletcher

• The thought of flight has melted me, I am less solid than liquid, then I'm going up and going invisible like steam.

  

  Elizabeth Knox
  • Thought
  • Flight
  • Melted

• When I was writing the script, I knew didn't want to make a sports movie. I was very clear that I wanted to make a sibling rivalry story. So when I was writing the script, the football was getting in the way of the drama. One day, I saw Michael Haneke's Funny Games, which is probably the most violent film I've ever seen - but the violence is off camera. When I finished watching the film, I said, 'Hey, that's what I have to do.' Haneke gave me this solution.

  

  Carlos Cuaron
  • Solution
  • Script
  • Sibling

• We were rattled. A team like Rutgers, they play in spurts, and they didn't have a large spurt. We certainly knew we had it in us to get back in the game if we stayed focused.

  

  Dawn Staley
  • Team
  • Games
  • Focused