Top 1200 Team First Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

For almost 20 years, I've reported on some amazing feats of athleticism for ESPN. But the one thing that stood out, game after game, is that it takes a team to win. When I got cancer, that lesson got personal. And Team Livestrong became my team.

I just think it's great in cricket to come into a team environment. It's the first time I've ever experienced it.

Any team that lets in 50 goals should never be in second position in the first place.

Tony Taylor was one of the first acquisitions that the Phillies made when they reconstructed their team. They got him from Philadelphia.

Real Madrid will be the first team to claim two Champions League trophies in a row.

I try to just focus on what feels right to me when I am conceiving it, conceptualizing, designing, etc. and then talk it through with the team and listen to what they have to say. This kind of thing is a team effort, and working with a great team is the most important part of filmmaking for me.

Being young, I've always wanted to just play first-team football as soon as possible.

To work with the kids and help them come through from the Academy to the first team would be brilliant.

I don't think I was a good enough coach to help an NBA team win a game when I first got to that league.

When I arrived at Le Mans nobody knew me, I had to work hard to get into the first-team.

The best goal I have scored for the national team would be during the 2002 World Cup against Portugal. It was my first World Cup and my first goal in the World Cup. It was like a dream, and that's why it was so memorable.

I signed for City in 2013 but I've never met Pep Guardiola or any of the first-team players.

I would go on record saying that there is probably one gay or bi-person in every football team. They're there, they are 100 per cent there. I think people that are gay or from that community definitely are very worried about having to shoulder the responsibility of being the first. I think once the first comes out, there would be loads.

It's definitely better to be a good league team than a good cup team. It shows consistency. The cup could be down to a lucky draw and might not show the value of your team like the league does.

Ideally when you set up for the first game of the season... to have put the team to bed would be the ideal situation.

My father, my first coach, would never let me punk out if I was capable of helping the team.

I'm from Cleveland, Ohio. And I'll tell you a real quick thing: we didn't have a pro hockey team when I was growing up, so I adopted the Red Wings as my hockey team just so I could, you know, be amused and enjoy playoff hockey every single year. I really get into it. Detroit is my team.

I mean the first thing you think about when you hear the Cowboys is that star, 'America's Team,' and all of that. It's a great franchise.

I had very good players around me in the team, like in the German national team. Andreas Brehme was one of my best partners in the team because he had good eyes; he could always hit the best ball.

It is an important duty at Arsenal for the experienced players to show the younger ones that there is a chance to make it into the first team.

To score a goal for Liverpool is always special but the fact it was for the first team makes it even better.

I once said coaching a first-year team was a religious experience. You do a lot of praying - but most of the time the answer is NO.

When you become a professional footballer, there's no written contract that says you have to strive to play first-team football.

I want to play for a team that has a strong defensive reputation. One that relies on a system and where assists are valued. And a team that needs what I do - making other guys better, leading a team, being a defensive stopper every night. I want to be a good fit.

It's hard to tell yourself to get ready when it's like, 'I need to make this freaking team first.'

Team chemistry is what really matters, your team chemistry and team toughness.

The Prime Minister and the Chief Ministers are one team. The Cabinet Ministers and the State Ministers are another team. The Civil Servants at the Centre and the States are yet another team. This is the only way we can successfully develop India.

It is clear that for any player of Barcelona's youth squad their dream is to play for the club's first team.

I'll always be thankful to Villa for giving me the chance to play first-team football regularly.

I help my team win. That's overall what I do best. If you watch me play, I'm usually going to be on the winning team. Whether it's scoring enough points or rebounding enough or guarding the best player on the other team, I'm gonna do what it takes to win.

For me, Manchester United is the biggest club. I came here to play with the first team and win trophies.

At Palace, I feel like a first-team player, and I have got the opportunity to play every week.

I'm afraid that if they bring the Sonics back, what kind of team are they going to put on the court? Are they going to put the effort out? If they bring the team back, are they going to really put a good team out there? Or do we just want any team?

When you're an undrafted guy, it's hard because... you're not going to have the first- or second-team reps all the time, obviously.

At Euro 2004 - my first as a player - Greece won the title. A team nobody thought could win it.

We strive for a culture of constant communication. Team members know in real time if there are performance issues. Team leaders know in real time if a team member is unhappy.

Every day you are in the media for good or for bad and sometimes this is not helping the driver or the team to control the driver in the best way as well. But Ferrari is Ferrari and the biggest, most famous team in Formula One, so you have a lot more pressure there than at another team.

The Saints are Louisiana's team and have been since the late '60s when my predecessor Pete Rozelle welcomed them to the league as New Orleans' team and Louisiana's team. Our focus continues to be on having the Saints in Louisiana.

Whenever you can get a competitive, first-grade person to join your team, you never know what happens.

If I'm called up by any England team, I'm willing to go. I'm not going to pull out of any England team. Ask any young kid who wants to play for their national team, and everyone's the same. We're all dying to do it.

I think I had a superb campaign team. And I know it's always expected that if you lose, people point to the campaign team and say, 'Gee, they didn't do their job well.' If you win, they're all brilliant. And the team, in my view, did a superb job.

It's about getting experience and developing. The best way to do that is to go out on loan to play first-team football.

When I did my first media interviews after I was announced as a team principal, the first question was, what qualifies you for the job? The second question was, did your husband place you in the role? And the third was, how are you going to do your job as a mother? I was speechless to think that we were not making any progress.

When a child signs up for tennis, he or she is put on a team. I put them in a circle and then I make sure they name their own team. I would have them do their skill drills as a team and their fun drills together as a team, then they have to have a match at the end of every week. They can't just have what they call a lesson today every week.

We go out to practice every single day and we have fun out there, but at the same time, we're getting work done. We're going hard. If it's reps for the scout team, we're giving them good reps. If we're getting reps for the first team as a tight end group as a whole, we try and go out there and put our best out there as a group effort.

I think the first victory is always memorable because that is where my journey started in the IPL and I was part of the team.

Going into my first Ryder Cup, my big fear was that I would contribute nothing to the team and that we'd lose.

I still feel like that girl making my first junior national team. And here I am 12 years in.

If we are encouraging kids to go into academies, then presumably we are selling them the dream that they can play first-team football.

To be successful in football, you have to do things that put the team first. Everyone has to play their role, and if they don't do it, you're not going to win.

The team was going into transition. The team that we had could not continue to exist. Because of age, injury, it could not get to that same level. It had to change. I wish this team could have been frozen in time for 10 years, but that's not the reality.

It had never been a decision to choose between the French national team or the Senegalese national team because I was growing up in France and playing in the French youth national team, so it was something really normal.

Nobody who is a Penn & Teller fan thinks of us first and foremost as magicians, but as a comedy team.

It's my belief that Barcelona are successful because they have a number of youth teams alongside the first team. They are where it begins.

Work hard - beat out half the team. Be committed, play fair as a team player - Beat out another quarter of the team. The last quarter is your desire and beliefs, and where you are playing.

In the early IBM team, that was a racially diverse team, a gender-diverse team.

Obviously, I have to do what's best for me and my family; I've got to put that first. But I definitely want to be on a team that's in contention.

A football team is like a piano; you need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.

If the Cincinnati Reds were really the first major league baseball team, who did they play?

It took a lot of work to go from the 'Not Top 10' to being selected for the NBA All-Rookie First Team.