59 Team Quotes

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

I'm basically a very lazy person who likes to get credit for things other people actually do.

If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don't particularly like.

Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

'Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success.'

A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.

As the original Mary Poppins budget of five million dollars continued to grow, I never saw a sad face around the entire Studio. And this made me nervous. I knew the picture would have to gross 10 million dollars for us to break even. But still there was no negative head-shaking. No prophets of doom. Even Roy was happy. He didn't even ask me to show the unfinished picture to a banker. The horrible thought struck me - suppose the staff had finally conceded that I knew what I was doing.

'When someone is made the head of an office in the Ogilvy & Mather chain, I send him a Matrioshka doll from Gorky. If he has the curiosity to open it, and keep opening it until he comes to the inside of the smallest doll, he finds this message: If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.'

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.

No one person can take credit for the success of a motion picture. It's strictly a team effort. From the time the story is written to the time the final release print comes off the printer, hundreds of people are involved - each one doing a job - each job contributing to the final product. And - if the picture wins an award, the feeling of satisfaction... can rightfully be shared by each and everyone.

They are real fighters. We can improve our team play. We can do better at home (Premiership), better in Europe and better in the Worthington Cup.

We were very frustrated last year. We have shown a lot of strength to come back here - beating Liverpool and Newcastle on the way.

We were considering him (Ruud van Nistelrooy) and Francis Jeffers and, in the end, we went for Jeffers.

Consistency is the quality of the Champions and that's what we want to be. To win like we did today against a team like Leeds shows that we are really up for it and hungry.

I believe that this team has a great future, and I'm sure we will show it next; if not this season.

Gentlemen, you have fought like lions and been led by donkeys.

Costly followers are not to be liked; lest while a man maketh his train longer, he make his wings shorter.

'Four old ladies are still rockin' away.'

I have made it a team rule that my players behave as gentlemen and dress as gentlemen. I wanted to end the popular conception that professional athletes were a bunch of roughnecks.

The Quakers have an excellent approach to thinking through difficult problems, where a number of intelligent and responsible people must work together. They meet as equals, and anyone who has an idea speaks up. There are no parliamentary procedures and no coercion from the Chair. They continue the discussion until unanimity is reached. I want you guys to do that. Get in a room with no phones and leave orders that you are not to be disturbed. And sit there until you can deal with each other as individuals, not as spokesmen for either organization.

In order to win victory now, we want the vote of every Republican - of every Grant Republican, and every anti-Grant Republican, in America - of every Blaine man and every anti-Blaine man. The vote of every follower of every candidate is needed to make success certain. Therefore I say, gentlemen and brethren, we are here to take calm counsel together, and inquire what we shall do.

I know nobody on that team has more points in the National Hockey League than me. So if they want to go that way, good luck... [t]o not have the opportunity to go back one more time and try and win the gold is obviously, in my opinion, very disrespectful.

You have to admit that it's difficult to misplace the Perl sources. :-)

Without infinite patience it is impossible to get the people to do any work.

Gentlemen, there is nothing sweeter than success, and you boys have got it!

She was a tigress surrounded by hamsters.

A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant--and that applies fully as much to the manager's boss as it applies to the manager's subordinates. -- Managing for the Future: The 1990's and Beyond (1992)

'You see the stuff he plays through, and you can't have anything but respect for him. It makes you want to play harder, play through stuff.'

It's awesome. Out of all the teams he's had, it's an honor to play in the game where he gets the record.

That's good for us, because teams won't be able to key on one receiver. They're going to have to play all of us.

If ye are seeking Rob Roy, he's ken'd to be better than half a hunder men strong when he's at the fewest.

I can't choose just one! Real Madrid only has great players. Raul, David Beckham, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Ronaldo... The one that impressed me the most after having actually played together is Cannavaro. He's sturdy and lithe and his attitude when he faces a match is exceptional too. I think he's the best center-back in the world.

Different ideas had been talked about, that we could do the background music or even write a new song or something, but this became the perfect vehicle because we always had a thing between the four of us that if any one of us wasn't in it, we weren't.

I can see the Beatles sticking together forever, really. We've been together a long time.

Don Wilson: I don't think you know how much it means to me to do the commercial. After all I'm not a funny man. I can't sing or dance. I don't lead a band. What are you paying me for?

'I'm just saying, Hey Mona Lisa/Come home, you know you can't Rome without Caesar'

You know how I'm smart? I got people around me who know more than I do.

An army of sheep, led by a lion, is better than an army of lions, led by a sheep.[1]