Team Quotes
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I think myself and this team are definitely in store for a great season. We're ready to step up and claim that role of being one of the best teams in the East. That's pretty close to a guarantee. I don't make guarantees, but if I wanted to bet, I'd bet we'd make the playoffs this year.
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I know what will be written, but we're a work in progress, ... We're fighting that. We're going to keep pushing and making improvements each week, and if we do that, we have a chance to have a good team.
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They're the best team in the league right now, one of the best teams in the league the last three or four years. It's a test to see where we're at.
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The Burning Imperative is a sharply defined, intensely shared, and purposefully urgent understanding from each of the team members of what they are “supposed to do, now,” and how this works with the larger aspirations of the team and the organization.
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I'm trying to teach my children not to cry. That's the big thing. No crying. Because I think we can all agree that crying is, for the most part, for sissies. If my team loses, I'm going to cry. And I'm going to want my kids to see me crying. Not because I think sports are so important, but because I bet so much money on the game that we'll probably lose the house if my team doesn't win. That's something to cry about.
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We talked about being fast, about being physical. Everyone on our team is fast. Everyone on our team is physical. ... Everybody understands what coach Dungy wants out of the defense. Once we figured it out, it was easy for us to go out and play fast, play hard.
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I've got a great team around me. They keep me working hard; they keep me focused.
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It's too bad that we gave up that goal at the end, but that's going to happen. We found a way to come back and win it, which is a sign of a team that is desperate, but we're still on a mission.
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If a team intimidate you physically and you let them, they've won.
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The role of the leader is to foster mutual respect and build a complementary team where each strength is made productive and each weakness irrelevant.
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The Yankees are one of the best teams. I want to stay with them forever.
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I was really short in high school. I was stuck on the bench in the baseball team, so I just thought I'd try out theater, and that was the last time I did sports.
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These guys got to know each other. They had already become a team before we got here.
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We were a good team, but the reason why we won 100 games was the manager.
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Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don't forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.
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I grew up as a part of the team that helped to field M-1s and M-60-A3s to the army back in 1980s.
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Night baseball isn't an aberration. What's an aberration is a team that hasn't won a World Series since 1908. They tend to think of themselves as a little Williamsburg, a cute little replica of a major league franchise. Give me the Oakland A's, thank you very much. People who do it right.
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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't really look at what other teams are doing. The rest of the season's in our hands.
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Every team that wins has a guy like Andy.
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My interest is in the Wests Tigers. Nobody can support a team that is all the time on the bottom; that's a waste of time.
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The way my team are doing, we could get Wilt Chamberlain in a trade and find out that he's really two midgets Scotch-taped together.
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That's fundamental, basic football that we can be better at. That's what we've got to get across to our team. To me, the biggest factor is we can play smarter than we're playing. We can play harder. Our guys wanted to play, they were prepared to play, but we have to learn to play at a higher tempo when we're playing.
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If your heart is bigger than the biggest guy on the team, then you're the biggest guy on the team.
