Team Quotes
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You can’t really innovate for the past (your offering won’t be innovative and will be beaten easily by competitors). If you innovate for the future, then adoption will be slow until customers become ready. The trick is to task your insights team to provide guidance for the future present.
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Great leaders focus on equipping their team. It is unfair to expect what you did not equip.
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I am looking for somebody to really establish themselves as the quarterback, to take over and take off with the team.
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I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history.
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You can give a great film idea to a mediocre team and they may screw it up, but if you give a mediocre idea to a great team, they will turn it into a great film.
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We're the only dance in town. We don't compete with any professional teams for the entertainment dollar.
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Find out what the other team wants to do. Then take it away from them.
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Guys would take runs at me even if I didn't have the puck. On one occasion my coach told me that the other team were told to hit number 21 as hard as they could the first period, so we switched jerseys.
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I made my first Australian senior team when I was 16, first Olympics when I was 19, and I retired. I'm 32, I retired four years ago, so a good third of my life or nearly a third of my life has been all about running.
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You would not want me on your football team.
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I still think we haven't put it all together, and maybe that's good that we're still good enough to win. I told the guys, our 2000 national title team -- we won 12-7 here, and we went on to win out and play in the Orange Bowl. So a lot of things are setting up similarly.
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You can't really look at what other teams are doing. The rest of the season's in our hands.
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I have worked with countless organizations that exhaust energy adapting to the weaknesses of the leader. I had a leader announce to his/her team the other day that he/she was the smartest person in the room. It perhaps was true, but that is where self-regulation should come in. The days of one genius surrounded by a bunch of worker bees are hopefully done. I know Millennials won't buy into such a scenario.
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I want to win. I don't want to spend the rest of my career on a last-place team. That's not the kind of player I feel like I am.
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Most teams have one All-Star, whether that guy made it this year or earlier in his career, and some teams have two All-Stars. What theyre showing is that a group of five guys that play together and play hard will always beat a team with two All-Stars and three average players.
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How does humility manifest itself in leadership and in life? A humble person is more concerned about what is right than about being right, about acting on good ideas than having the ideas, about embracing new truth than defending outdated position, about building the team than exalting self, about recognizing contribution than being recognized for making it.
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Defense is gonna help me in particular and help my team, so that's what I've really focused on.
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I like this idea of identification with the local team. I think it's great. That's what an orchestra should be. It's an orchestra for its hometown, and it serves the people.
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If our team is playing well and winning, it doesn't really matter to me if I am scoring points or not. For me though the more I can help offensively the better our chances are to win, so I just push myself to get better and hope it continues for the rest of the year.
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I probably visualize myself, the shots I'm going to get in the game, how I'm going to play defense, what we have to do to stop the other team's best player, what it's going to take out of me, the whole aspect of the game.
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All three of us boys, we grew up playing soccer. It was all of our first love. One of my coaches actually wanted me to try out for the U.S. national team, but I decided to quit to pursue football.
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Bottom line is, if you turn the ball over to a team that isn't as good, you then have brought them up to your level.
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They're going to try to run the ball at us, ... They like their fullback they have, and they like their big running backs. They're a physical team, so we're going to have to try to shut down the run and force them to throw the ball.
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When we root-root-root for the home team, we're rooting for our home as much as the team.
