Top 1200 Team First Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I just want to play well, have the people in Chicago enjoy watching soccer. You have a very good baseball team, a very good ice hockey team, and a very good football team. Hopefully you'll have a very good soccer team.

I scored my first goal with the national team against France.

I think I've achieved some good things; doing the first genome in history - my team on that was phenomenal and all the things they pulled together; writing the first genome with a synthetic cell; my teams at the Venter Institute, Human Longevity, and before that Celera.

When I first started playing in a youth football league, I was the worst kid on the team. I quit the first year. And then the next year, I was still the worst kid - I didn't even play.

I have ambitions to play for the first team. Of course, that is the ultimate goal.

I love playing and I'll do everything to be a first-team regular.

It's always good to bat at the top, where you get more opportunities, but sometimes crucial 30s and 40s can be very helpful for the team. Ultimately it is a team sport. Personal records don't matter much if your team ends up on the losing side.

A team is not made up of isolated individuals. Always stay in the game. Don't be passive. Football is a team game. No one plays alone. Success depends on your whole team being a single unit.

When you are asked to play for Arsenal, and for the first-team at that, it is very hard to say no.

My dream since 2007 has been to wear the shirt of the first team.

On a good team there are no superstars. There are great players who show they are great players by being able to play with others as a team. They have the ability to be superstars, but if they fit into a good team, they make sacrifices, they do things necessary to help the team win. What the numbers are in salaries or statistics don't matter; how they play together does.

Why don't you think we should dream of an African team winning the World Cup for the first time? People never allow this thought to cross their minds, and it is shameful. When you try to even say it, people look at you as if you're joking, but they forget that dreaming is the first step to success.

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.

Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third.

Recognize and reward players who put the team first, not just the gifted ones.

You should be thinking about the team first, and that's the mind-set.

We can find athletes. The biggest challenge is personality. It's finding charisma. In most sports, they tell you to turn down the personality. Look like everyone else on the team. It's the team; it's not you. In this, it's the opposite. It's you, not the team. We want you to become the big star.

My hope is to be the first disabled swimmer on an able-bodied team at the Y Nationals.

I got to play first-team men's football from a young age.

Obviously I have personal goals in my mind, but I put the team first.

But the atmosphere of being part of the Indian team is totally different from any other team. People start looking at you in a different way. But the senior players and support staff really helped me in ease into the team.

When I first came up in the wrestling business, there was a movie called 'The California Dolls' about a female tag team - girls who are struggling trying to make it in the wrestling world. I started out in a tag team, and my name was Britani Knight, and my dad named us after The California Dolls. We were called The Norfolk Dolls.

The very first thing I tell every intern on the first day is that their internship exists solely on their resume. As far as I am concerned, they are a full-time member of my team. For all the negative stereotypes about millennials, you would be astounded by how hard they work when they believe their contribution matters.

My first aim is to stay healthy and help the team.

I remember my first meeting with my management team when I became Indonesia's Minister of Finance. I was the youngest person and the first woman ever to hold that job. Everybody else in the room was male. I knew then that I had to work harder than any man to prove to them that I was capable.

I made my first World Championships team at 12.

One thing I'm amazed at is the younger generation of female broadcasters and what they've achieved, and the first person to come to mind is Candace Parker. I remember Candace when she first joined the TNT team, and I marveled at how comfortable she was right away in the television environment.

My criteria for choosing a film are first the story and the team that I'm working with.

A first-place team? You're always excited to become a part of that.

Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know's on third...

It will be a tough task to break into the first team at Chelsea.

People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.

I have a great race team, great grew members, awesome health care team, endocrinologist, nutritionist, and of course family and friends. It truly is a team effort, both when you are dealing with diabetes in regular life and also on the racetrack.

My first dream as a young boy was to be a gymnast and my first memory of football is of watching Ajax win the European Cup in 1971. It was a time when a great philosophy was being developed at Ajax, making rounded players who were there as a complete team rather than as 11 individuals.

We are all ambitious but important for me first is to have a stable spine to the team.

I wasn't trying to make First Team All-NBA. I just wanted to win.

I respect and love every team and cheer for every team and hope every team in Washington, D.C., do well just like they do for us.

I had to create a team of people who had worked in this industry for other banks. What I brought to that team was ICICI's strategic thinking, but when it came to domain knowledge or product nuances, I had to learn from the team.

If a team concedes a goal, then the first question is always of the goalkeeper.

Now, everybody always says there's no 'I' in team, but there is an 'I' in win, because the individuals make the team what it is, and how they think and what they do is important to the team. So when you act like the individual is not important, well, it is damn important who these people are and what they are.

If somebody on this team actually gets to first base, I'll stand there naked.

Our priority as a team is to finish first and second, irrelevant of the order.

Being with the first team is a reward for me. I'll take the opportunity with everything I have.

At City it is very hard to get into that first team.

I was playing first-team football at Cardiff at 16.

Carlo Ancelotti is a good coach and a good man. I worked with him for just three months at Parma, before I left for Chelsea, although I had worked with him before with the national team. In my first game for the national team I played with him.

A lot of people, a lot of players, come to the league knowing 'I can do that, I can do this, I can do a lot of stuff.' But at the end of the day, what the team needs from you is what makes sense for the team. You have to do what's best for the team.

One of the first lessons I learned in football is that it takes a team to win a game.

I started to study psychology but had to stop when I got into the first team.

I guess the second-term team is not quite as adoring as the first.

I can open the floor for other guys. I've always put the team first.

Now, everybody always says there's no 'I' in team, but there is an 'I' in win, because the individuals make the team what it is, and how they think and what they do is important to the team. So when you act like the individual is not important, well, it is damn important who these people are and what they are.

The 2011 Cubs were the oldest team in the division, the most expensive team in the division, and the worst team in the division. And we really needed to start over.

If I wasn't aiming to break into the Arsenal first team, that wouldn't be the correct mindset.

I spent my first twenty years in Morocco, where I coached the national team.

During my first season at Manchester, the team was not performing, and I was the scapegoat.

Team leaders have to connect with their team and themselves. If they don't know their team's strengths and weaknesses, they cannot hand off responsibilities to the team. And if they don't know their own strengths and weaknesses, they will not hand off responsibilities to the team.

I feel like a first-team Premier League player at Palace.

The team comes first. Not one person is more important than the other.

Chelsea is the main goal for me, I want to play in their first-team.