Famous Quotes & Sayings

Whitey Herzog

The rules are changed now, there's not any way to build a team today. It's just how much money you want to spend. You could be the world champions and somebody else makes a key acquisition or two and you're through.

Sara Bareilles

I have found so much joy and so much pride in contributing and being a team member, and then stepping back and watching someone else get the applause. That has been really satisfying in a way that I wouldn't have probably imagined.

Richard M. Nixon

I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team.

Rob Bell

The best team does not always win, it's the team that plays the best.

Richard Roeper

When we root-root-root for the home team, we're rooting for our home as much as the team.

Richard Rodriguez

In the Sacramento of the 1950s, it was as though White simply hadn't had time enough to figure Brown out. It was a busy white time. Brown was like the skinny or fat kids left over after the team captains chose sides. You take the rest — my cue to wander away to the sidelines, to wander away.

Tracy Hickman

One of the things about a great team is that the whole exceeds the sum of its partners.

Robert Reich

Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together.

Satya Nadella

I think playing cricket taught me more about working in teams and leadership that has stayed with me throughout my career.

Satchel Paige

One time I snuck a ball on with me and when I went to winding up, I threw one of them balls to first and one to second. I was so smooth I picked off both runners and fanned the batter without that ump or the other team even knowing it.

Sanath Jayasuriya

I want to convey a message to the Sri Lankan government that they should seriously consider sending Sri Lankan Cricket Team to Pakistan.

Warren Buffett

Having first rate people on the team is more important than designing hierarchies and clarifying who reports to whom.

Warren Buffett

The .350 hitter expects, and also deserves, a big payoff for his performance - even if he plays for a cellar-dwelling team. And a .150 hitter should get no reward - even if he plays for a pennant winner.

Vladimir Guerrero

As a ballplayer, you just want to feel respected. I like the way Washington presented the team to me and I feel good about what was being said.

Wayne Rooney

I just want to get in the team and show all of them what I can do. (on signing for Manchester united)

Ryan Seacrest

I am looking forward to being part of the E! team. This unique opportunity allows my company to take the next step in providing multimedia content.

Waqar Younis

I am happy that we are not favorites. To be very honest it's big pressure of being favorites. We were not favorites last time (in 2011) too but we played excellent cricket. Similarly this time, there are teams which play on those bouncy wickets like Australia and South Africa, and are probably bigger favorites than us. But we hope that with the type of resources we have we can do well.

Wayne Graham

There is nothing wrong with [pitching by committee] in mid-week [games]. It creates unique problems for hitters. I think it creates more problems for good-hitting teams than it does for the other teams.

Wayne Gretzky

When I played in a 21-team league, there were six or seven goalies who were just average, and the equipment and pads were smaller. I came in the right era. I played for the right team. It was all speed, and creativity and imagination.

Tony Stewart

I think when you look at our team, you have to say that the weak point is probably still the driver.

Tony Stewart

Daytona is a restrictor-plate race and, unlike Daytona, guys can't get in a line at Phoenix and go to the front. Daytona and Talladega (Ala.) have always just been two different forms of racing. With the draft being so important at those two tracks, it's more of a team deal than an individual deal. What happens at Phoenix and the races after that has to be done on your own. You can't help each other at Phoenix. You just have to go race.

Urban Meyer

I don't like disrespecting other teams.

Urban Meyer

You don't get 5 years to build a team any more. You get 2 if you're lucky.

Ursula Burns

I say to my team all the time that this is how I grew up: Always thinking that, at any minute, I could be unemployed. You have to scramble. You have to work hard and get ahead of things.

Tyrone Willingham

Years ago, when I was (at Stanford), you had maybe one or two teams -- at one time I was part of one of those teams -- you didn't have to worry about, ... Now it's not that way in the conference. A lot of the teams that were once at the bottom kind of have their games together and are making their way to the top.

Yannick Noah

It made me hungry. I feel like I'm in a program that really helped me individually as a player. I feel like I'm with a group of guys that are like my best friends.

Zack Greinke

I was actually hoping the Royals would pick me. It was the main team I wanted to go to. Their colors are Royal blue and that's my favorite color.?

Zach Braff

I don't think that other races are inferior, I just think that there's something special about white people. Sometimes, when I think about all the things white people have accomplished throughout history, I smile, and I nod, and I think to myself, 'Yeah, I'm glad I'm on that team.'

William H. Gass

How do we know, then, when a code's been cracked?when we are right?when do we know if we have even received a message? Why, naturally, when, upon one set of substitutions, sense emerges like the outline under a rubbing; when a single tentative construal leads to several; when all the sullen letters of the code cry TEAM! after YEA! has been, by several hands, uncovered.

William Baldwin

When I wrestled in College, my team was very good.

Wilford Brimley

I rope steers in team roping events. There's a header and a heeler on a roping team, and I'm the heeler.

Wasim Akram

Today, he showed the world why he is considered the best batsman around. Some of the shots he played were simply amazing. Earlier, opposing teams used to feel that Sachin's dismissal meant they could win the game. Today, I feel that the Indian players, too, feel this way.

William Standish Knowles

In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics.