Top 1200 Hockey Team Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I think that it is very interesting to write about a team because a team is a group of people who work in very close quarters and have very intense relationships so - in my days of playing sports, I was very rarely on a team that did not have it's own peculiar dynamic, and you wind up having very intense feelings for good and for bad about these people with whom you spend many hours a day.

I didn't want to be part of a tanking team. I just wanted to win and just work to be a good team.

My favorite NBA team are the houston rockets and favorite college team are the duke blue devils.

I don't want to be jumping from team to team.

I do not believe it is all about the leader. I think it's about the team, too. So we have one mission; we have one team; we are working to victory.

I am delighted to be at the heart of this team of radical reformers in Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, Nick Boles and many others. It's a team I believe will deliver the change Britain needs.

I was on the math team, and I was on the soccer team.

I honestly don't judge myself personally. I judge everything based off of my team, what my team is doing.

It's not easy to carry forward the national team because you have a whole country behind you. But I would be willing to take charge of the Argentina national team.

Sometimes it takes guys time to get acclimated, especially to a good team. You try to find out what's going to be your role on the team that's already good.

In football winning games is all that matters, but a team like West Ham and every team apart from Man City are going to lose games.

The difference between a good defensive team and a bad defensive team is as little as three possessions

When you are a coach, you are watching how the team is positioning itself on the field - if your team is in possession of the ball, you are already anticipating what could happen if you lose the ball.

Before I broke my back, I was really looking forward to playing hockey at the University of Michigan. That was my biggest goal.

Naming a transition team varies with the intentions of the candidate; some candidates have been careful to name a transition team as much as a year in advance.

When you have a team that has won for 20 years, the mentality is strong. When you don't play well, you still know you are a strong team.

This team just wasn't good enough today, but they had the unity I always wanted. To have an American team like this has always been a dream of mine.

Go make your mistakes in the first team. You'll learn more in a month in the first team than you will in two years in the reserves.

I've tried so far to learn as much as possible. I think I've got a good grasp of what a hockey GM needs to do.

When you are new, it is difficult to get momentum and get to know your team-mates when you are not regularly in the team.

This is a team sport, a team game.

It was always so nice to step away from figure skating and school with hockey. To this day I'm still a huge fan.

The fans are very, very important in the team's success. Instead of acting up, you're cheering for the team.

It's been amazing to me every day just putting on that Team U.S.A. gear. That's the team that I used to watch as a kid on NBA TV and now I'm a part of it! It doesn't get much cooler than that.

I want to be playing competitive first-team football every week and not reserve team football.

If a team needs new facilities, and they've been unsuccessful for a long period of time, and the local community is not being responsive, then I think it's a possibility that team might get a vote to relocate.

Visualize a wagon wheel as a complete team. A leader might be the hub of the wheel at the center. Now suppose the spokes are the connecting relationships the leader is building with people on the outer rim of the wheel. If the hub is removed, then the entire wheel collapses. In a situation like that, if a team loses the leader, the entire team collapses.

You can take a sidewards step in the Premier League, go to a team in the Championship or come to a team in League One.

Every season I think it's right every great team tries to improve the quality of the team.

I mean, I went to a Catholic boys school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.

I wanted to be Team UFC. But the more Team UFC you are, the worse you get treated, it seems like.

You never know from week to week how one team is going to attack you versus another team.

I like our whole team. That's the biggest thing about football. It's got to be your whole team. It just can't be one side carrying the other.

Everybody knows anything can happen in the Premier League: every team can beat every team.

Our team is the best team in the world, and I'm going to maintain that, and I'm not going to let anybody break that up.

You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast.

I think when you're a very good defensive team - it's very rare a team wins a championship when you're not a very good defensive team.

I tend to personally judge issue by issue rather than sort of endorsing this football-team mentality that we fall into in this country, where it's all about the team.

I love Punjab and really enjoy playing for the Punjab team in IPL, but when you have your own state team, anyone would like to play for that.

Usually when you play a team, you want to focus on one line. Pittsburgh is the only team where you have to focus on one player [Mario Lemieux]. When he's coming toward you, all you see is him.

Some of us love hockey not just for its ferocity and skill but for its underlying code of civility off the ice.

My parents, especially my dad, had a big influence on my hockey career. He introduced me to the game when I was younger, and I stuck with it.

If I learned one thing by playing professional hockey for thirty-two years, it's that you have to love what you do. And that's not just true for sports.

There's a very fine line between winning and losing. Every team in the NFL has talent,but attitude is the biggest thing that counts - that, and playing together as a team. If you can capture that feeling, then you'll have success.

When you're with your club team, every week you have a performance to judge. But when you're with the national team, it's a little different because you might not play for three or four months at a time. Things change constantly.

If a team lives up to its role as favorite, it will have earned the World Cup. By the way, Adidas grew by about 30 percent in Brazil even without sponsoring the national team.

The way we stop Mesut Ozil is as a team. He's a good player but only as a team can we stop him.

As a competitor, you always want to receive the best rewards. But you understand that it is a team sport, and you understand the better your team plays, the more you are rewarded.

You need to have the same ideas to work as a team, to have a good team spirit. And you don't get there in a day or even a month. It takes some time to get there.

Any team sport, there are certain team targets and those targets should always be in the forefront.

I mean, I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.

The Dutch public always wants to see a team that is trying to be dominant, trying to play attractive football, and after that, hopefully, a team that is winning.

There is no i in team, but there is no team without individuals.

I don't think there's ever been a team that ever scored more layups than that Blazers team.

I think I am the first hockey player in India to have a wax statue of his own. It is a great honour.

That's all our team is about. If we stop people, we're the most athletic team in this whole tournament and we can get out and get easy buckets.

I've had a lot of success by myself, but it's not good when you can't go and accomplish things as a team and have success as a team.

Halifax is a big hockey city. Everyone loves the game here and really enjoys anyone who has had success.

If a local market is supporting the team strongly, you're not going to have a lot of support for a team leaving that market.

The [Donald] Trump transition team is already functioning as the worst transition team we have ever seen. And the good news is the slower they do their work, the better off we are.