Top 1200 Team First Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

I feel like I've always been doubted or slighted. Let's be honest. When you're a walk-on, you don't start for a No. 1 team, a national championship contender. You just don't. A walk-on is a guy who plays scout team, who's just happy to be on the team.

When a professional baseball team asks you to throw out the first pitch, that's an honor, and you do it.

When your great players are team players, everybody else follows their lead. The best team doesn't always win - it's usually the team that gets along best.

I did the utility thing at first out of necessity to find a place on the team.

Everyone wants to be in the first team, but you have to accept the situation and keep working hard.

Often, what I tell a new CEO asking for advice, or one of my own new leaders, is the two most important decisions that your team is going to watch is the first person you hire and the first person you promote - because you are saying that's the type of person I want.

I kick off every monthly team meeting with 'core value stories' - team members stand up and recognize how another team member exemplified a core value.

If the team's winning, I'm going to do whatever I can to help the team, whether that's from third-string role, backup, starter, it doesn't matter. I'm going to do what I can to prepare and help the team.

I've played for Liverpool's first-team pretty much every week for 16 years.

I am very happy to be at Fiorentina and I hope to help the team to fight for the first positions.

I do know it's great to have a support from a fan base of a team. Football is such a team game, such a team aspect to it... Good things happen, the praise is spread around; and bad things happen, usually it's not just one person's fault.

A team like Brooklyn has seen everything, they've experienced everything, they've had every atmosphere you can have in the playoffs and some of them have won championships. That's the advantage you have as an experienced team and the disadvantage you have as a young team.

I think fans are just obsessed with the 'Twilight' saga and then within it they might have preferences between if they're Team Jacob, Team Edward or Team Jasper. It just comes down to them loving the whole thing, and if they can get any of the boys from the book they are fine with that.

I joined Espanyol in 2011, and three years later I made my first-team debut.

I have always said being part of the team and winning a medal for my country was my first preference.

I'm a defender, and my first job is to make the team secure at the back; that's my primary responsibility.

In 1999, my team discovered that the star Upsilon Andromedae was circled by three gas-giant planets - the first distant multiplanet system ever found. That same year, other researchers observed the first 'transit' of an exoplanet - a planet blocking out a small fraction of the starlight as it passes in front of the star.

We are the best team of the tournament and deserved the title but luck did not favour us. I think the future of this team is good. If we play more friendly matches and target the SAFF Championship, I think this team can deliver that title.

I think always in F1 the team mate is the first one you get compared to - which is normal.

Managers come and go, and first-team coaches and players can leave suddenly.

To train a national team, you have to know what team you have at your disposal and what this team is capable of. You need to get the best out of them and take them as far as possible. Yet, sometimes, you can't achieve your goals.

I mean, if you pause over what it means at the age of 76 that Eleanor Roosevelt wrote, the happiest single day of her life was the day she made the first team at field hockey. Field hockey is a team sport. Field hockey is a knockabout - I mean, picture Allenswood, the swamps of north London. It's a messy sport. So she really enjoyed playing this rough-and-tumble sport in the mud of Allenswood, a team sport. And she was very competitive. And she loved being competitive, and she loved to win. And that, I think, was all of the things that Allenswood enabled.

I believe the team of Tony Abbott and Julia Gillard is the best leadership team for the Liberal Party and therefore part of the best leadership team of the Coalition for the country.

Often, entrepreneurs don't build a board until they are forced to by their VCs when they raise their first financing round. This is dumb, as you are missing the opportunity to add at least one person to the team who - as a board member - can help you navigate the early process of building your company and raising that first round.

The owners need to have some protection against players jumping from team to team. The fans have the right to expect some continuity on the team they support from year to year.

Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.

My thing is, when Barkley played basketball, he didn't practice, he wasn't a leader, he wasn't this or that, he just had natural talent so he got chosen to the Dream Team, All Star team because he had the talent and he was the franchise player on the team.

You cannot judge a team accurately on the basis of the first-innings leads they have secured.

We won the national championship. We went 40-0 - the first men's or women's team in history to ever do that.

Goal of mine is to make first team All-Defense. The way you do that is guarding the best players.

Ultimately, the team has to come first even though we all have individual goals and preferences.

If you want to scale-up, the first thing you have to do is to expand your own team.

I can remember 1987 when I had my first amateur fight in Michigan, weighing 64lb. I was 10 years old. I was the youngest and smallest guy on my team. I can remember what I ate. There was this restaurant called Ponderosa, and my dad made me eat a steak. I was happy. It was a first round knockout. I slept with my trophy for two weeks.

I still have very close ties to Houston and the Astros because that was my first team.

There was only a little spell at Wigan, when I first signed there, when I wasn't in the team every week.

In my day, 20-year-olds already had 150 first-team appearances under their belts.

You cannot compare the way someone plays for a club and for a national team. At a club, you spend every day with the same players. In a national team, you are with your team-mates for only a few days.

When you assemble animation teams the way you do a live-action film, you're often struggling a bit to get a cohesive team together, so if you have a team that works well together, you're hoping for another film so that you can refine the team.

I was a biology major. But I also happened to be captain of the basketball team and first chair in band.

I think the only thing that matters is you win as a team and you lose as a team. And so the team needs to understand that no one player is bigger than any other player. Everybody has a role... Every single role is important.

It would be great to win the Ballon d'Or, but first, I'm thinking about the team's interest and not my personal ones.

In his sophomore year Wilbanks tried out for the high school basketball team and made it. On the first day of practice his coach had him play one-on-one while the team observed. When he missed an easy shot, he became angry and stomped and whined. The coach walked over to him and said, "You pull a stunt like that again and you'll never play for my team." For the next three years he never lost control again. Years later, as he reflected back on this incident, he realized that the coach had taught him a life-changing principle that day: anger can be controlled.

The first step in changing a culture, I believe, starts with the senior leadership team - and with the CEO.

The fact is, an America's Cup team is more than a sailing team. It's anywhere from sort of 80 to upward of 100 people; of designers, engineers, boat builders, an incredible group of people, and there are a lot of nationalities in New Zealand's team.

I believe in work, in connections between the players, I think what makes football great is that it is a team sport. You can win in different ways, by being more of a team, or by having better individual players. It is the team ethic that interests me, always.

I was in seventh grade math class, and we had this thing called Number Sense. So, I wasn't on the track team. Wasn't on the football team. Wasn't on the basketball team. I was in the Number Sense Club.

If you want to be in the first team you have to show how much you're worth at U21 level.

At the 2012 Olympic Trials, I wanted to make a second Olympic team. I fell face first, and in a blink of an eye, my dreams of competing in a second Olympics were over. Even so, I got up, finished my routine, and saw twenty thousand people cheering. It was my first standing ovation.

Money has never won anything. You can spend as much as you want, but you must build a team first.

I want to continue to be a first-team regular here at Madrid. That is my long-term goal.

When you first assemble a group, it's not a team right off the bat. It's only a collection of individuals

You need to make sure you hire people who are capable of being strong team players. Team members should fit the company's culture, be committed to the team, and be capable of being genuinely vulnerable and selfless.

The most important thing for me is that I get regular first team action.

'The Look' is my first documentary, and I enjoyed the freedom of working within a small team.

I would love to see The IIconics become the first women tag team champions.

Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in afterlife the images first presented to it. The first thing continues forever with the child. The first joy, the first sorrow, the first success, the first failure, the first achievement, the first misadventure, paint the foreground of his life.

Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.

Of course, it is difficult to arrive at a big team in the first place, but it is even harder to stay there.

For me, the team always comes first, and without the help of my colleagues, I am nothing.

Paul Scholes would have been one of my first choices for putting together a great team.