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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."
"A small team of A+ players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players."
"I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband."
"A lot of players know how to play the game, but they really don't know how to play the game, if you know what I mean. They can put the ball in the hoop, but I see things before they even happen. You know how a guy can make his team so much better? That's one thing I learned from watching Jordan."
"I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed."
"One time I didn't leave my hotel room for four days, I was so stuck in my head. But now, with maturity and age, I've realized that winning isn't everything. It's very much about the journey, particularly in my sport. There are so many people on my team, and I've got to be conscious of them. So while winning is definitely the ultimate goal, the lessons learned when I don't win only strengthen me."
"Use different basketball offensive alignments to cause confusion for the other team."
". . . a jostling scrum of office buildings so mediocre that the only way you ever remember them is by the frustration they induce - like a basketball team standing shoulder to shoulder between you and the Mona Lisa."
"After you've had Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna as team-mates you don't give a **** who the next bloke is"
"A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time."
"American working men are principals in the three-member team of capital, management, labor. Never have they regarded themselves as a servile class that could attain freedom only through destruction of the industrial economy."
"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."
"You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I'll show you a pennant. I'll show you the New York Yankees."
"The Frankfurt Galaxy( The NFL Europe team) always had tremendous success, at that time there were 2,000 American football clubs in Europe playing the game from juniors through to adults."
"If that many people recognize how hard I go every night and what I put into my game, to make myself and my team better, it means a lot to mean. I'm fortunate; I'm blessed to be in the situation that I'm in right now."
"When employees unite, they form a union but when business owners unite, they form a team."
"True passion attracts. If you have passion in your business, the right people will be attracted to your team."
"The French don't have a baseball team. And if they did, there'd only be a left field, and no one would be safe."
"Indians in America are yet to be considered human beings, even though the Pope issued a papal bull in 1898 that declared us to be human beings. But to show you the institutional racism, the sports teams are still using the Indians as mascots."
"I've tried to do everything possible to prepare myself and prepare our football team to be great."
