The A Team Quotes

When the year starts the objective is to win it all with the team, personal records are secondary.

No big league team is having a gathering like this 2 days before the season

We have to play as a team at our best every night.

After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.

A pitching coach is a manager's best friend. He's handling 12 out of the 25 players on the team.

When playing against big teams, it's the small details that count.

Offside killed my team. They are not God. They made a mistake and I understand. I don't want three points, I just want 'sorry.'

It's a different thing when you play on a team that has to win, that doesn't consider it a good year unless you win the championship

A great team doesn’t mean that they had the smartest people. What made those teams great is that everyone trusted one another. It can be a powerful thing when that magic dynamic exists.

I tend to stick to my team guys, the guys I train with here at Greg Jackson's, because when they're in there, I feel like I'm in there.

I don't believe a team can lead itself. I'm a big believer in vision.

There is no "I" in "Team," but there is an "E" for "Everyone." A team achieves more when everyone contributes.

I was fortunate enough to have baseball to teach me the values relative to success. The sport gifted me with leadership and team building skills that translate in a relatable way in the world.

Napoleon didn't take Moscow, the Nazis got within 21 miles in 1943, but in a war of a different kind, Team Canada conquered Moscow.

A truly intelligent person is the dumbest person on the team he is leading.

Having a great idea is important. But having a great team is also important.

Team guts always beat individual greatness.

If you're doing something radically new, you need a team that's willing to go on a ride that's very different from anything they've encountered before.

Someone in the England team will have to grab the ball by the horns.

I am not a supporter of buying a national team.

But when you get into a situation where you can acquire a proven leader, a proven quality player, an unselfish player, a guy who taken a team to the Super Bowl, I think you do it.

I grew up in team sports. I think I understand the psyche of America. I think when children sign up to play, it's got to be team.

I love it when the team scores... the lads are always giving me stick because of it, but I'm just so happy I can't help it.

The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.

In Jamaica High School in New York, my coach was Larry Ellis, and he said I could probably make the Olympic team. He gave me something to shoot for.

My goal is to get on the national team. People joke that we'll be able to go to Beijing in 2008, but it's just jokes right now. Hopefully I'll be able to make it a reality.

A man stands alone at the plate. This is the time for what? For individual achievement. There he stands alone. But in the field, what? Part of a team.

I am not taking legal action against any team-mate.

The more people we have on our team. the less room there is in the elevator and the more complicated everything gets.

People thought I was dead. But I wasn't. I was just directing "The A-Team."

Arsenal are a great team. But we lifted the trophy eight times in 11 years.

Awards, they come and go. The main thing is it's all about team.

When I retire and I'm back at home with me kids, they're not going to care that I smiled too much on the field. They're not going to care what kind of team player I was.

What the other teams do is something that I can never control, so I just keep focussed on my direction.

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.

Either you can lie down or you can stand up and say, 'I'm going to be a man about it, go out and deal with the pain and help my team win.'

Great talent stands in line to join your team because the culture becomes the stuff of legend.

Life is a game - sometimes serious, sometimes fun - but a game that must be played with true team spirit.

The number one ranked team is playing the number 10 ranked team. That's the reality.

Basketball is sort of an interesting sport that, you know, the top player on your team makes so much more of an impact than the top player in any other sport.

That's the nature of sport, if you look at how Europe has performed they have found a way to win but golf is cyclical and there's not much between the teams.

I don't want to say [the teams] are mirror images of each other, ... but there's a lot of similarities on both sides of the ball.

Anytime you have any opportunity to be with the national team it's an honor and a challenge, and it is something I am looking forward to.

I like the team effort of everyone pulling together to make one good project.

I didn't realize how slow my four-year-old MacBook was until the web team wanted to start using it as the benchmark for a slow computer experience.

Some of the most flowery praise you hear on the subject of teams is only hypocrisy. Managers learn to talk a good game about teams even when they're secretly threatened by the whole concept.

What we are looking for is managers who are awake enough to alter the world as they find it, to make it harmonize with what they and their people are trying to accomplish.

Building a team is the nucleus for every piece of success.

What makes this mentality dangerous is that when the team is held together by careerism and mindless partisanship, individual members are punished for thinking for themselves.

I was still very invested in the team, very invested in how we were doing. I realized I needed to take a step back and start focusing on myself, my head and my eye, try to get my health back.