Team Quotes

There's nothing like being involved with a team that can go that distance.

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

You work enough with someone and you develop a shorthand. You know how he likes to work through the day and he knows where you're vulnerable and where your weaknesses and strengths are, so it makes for a good team, a team that knows who's over there behind your back.

Home base is the support system where we have a culinary team, my own writers because of the shows and the books and stuff, we have a culinary team of about six people. Marketing, public relations, accounting and all that sort of stuff.

But when I stopped facing Sandy, I had to face Don Drysdale. No one on my team wanted to face him.

Their argument, and I think it's a correct one, is that they'll make more money from the trades and the hardcovers if nobody messes with the creative team.

You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.

Obviously every one of them was special to that particular team, all the people that were involved with it.

The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on.

We didn't think we were a fourth-place team. For us to beat the first-place team in the West and the first-place team in the East shows the dedication and determination that we had.

When you're talking about a trade you're saying, 'Is it good for this team or that team, did they give up too much?' That kind of debate is great for the game.

You have to be a good team, but you have to be lucky and stay away from injuries.

The team that is going to win is the one that does its homework the best by studying its opponents.

I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.

You can't do anything to help your team win when you don't play.

That was my dream, to drive for Ferrari, but I am not a kid any more. If Ferrari is the best team and if I get the chance to drive for Ferrari, it would be with pleasure.

There are so many great things about this business. Almost everybody is on the same team. It is all for one-friendly competitiveness. No one is out to hurt anyone.

My very good friend, Rahm Emanuel, made it very clear to me on several occasions that I was, quote, unquote, not a team player; that I was not - that I didn't not have a future.

I can't think of any NBA team over the last few years that lost three starters. And we replaced them basically with three guys who really haven't played in this league.

So many people wanted an adventure. It was really more about finding the cast that I wanted for 'Expedition Impossible,' so it had good diversity, and people could really say, 'Oh, there's the firefighters, there's the team of cops, there's the grandpa' - so that you can really relate with them.

It's always hard - if you're not the best player on your team, how can you be the best player in college?

I'm privileged and grateful to lead The Walt Disney Company and our talented, dedicated team at this exciting time.

As for football in L.A., it's going to take a loooong time before another team comes here.

We all like to hear a man speak out on his convictions and principles. But at the same time, you must understand that when you're running on a ticket, you're running with a team.

I had a great editor, Rebecca Corbett, from the time I was a city reporter right through to the years I worked on the 'Sun's' enterprise reporting team.

I was on the speech team, we called it forensics.

Now we're getting a whole generation of kids who have never had a football team in L.A., so they don't miss it and don't ask for it. It becomes self-perpetuating. They don't know what they're missing.

I can let the team do the talking for me.

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

When I started finishing games and coming off the field shaking hands, it was a beautiful thing. I mean, you start seeing that you're an important part of the team.