David Mamet Quotes

Baseball is not a sport you can achieve individually.

Team playing, that's what I see when I'm out there watching the WNBA games. All the girls play as a team, and they have each other's backs, and that's great.

You can have a bunch of individually good players, but it doesn't matter. You gotta learn to play like a team.

I don't like it when a player says, 'I like freedom; I want to play for myself.' Because the player has to understand he is part of a team with 10 other players. If everyone wants to be a jazz musician, it will be chaos. They will not be a team, and nothing will be possible.

Football is an honest game. It's true to life. It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life.

Acting is not about competing. Acting is about cooperating. Acting is about collaboration. It's about your utility, your usefulness, your capacity to add to the work that has already been done and will be done. You're just part of a team. I never feel competitive about acting.

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.

The reason of football is not to be the best but to be the best team

Good teams don't care about who scores. Good teams just care about scoring; they don't care who does it.

The purpose of a team is not goal attainment but goal alignment.

I was always about the team, regardless of our relationship wasn't working out or didn't work out.

When you choose to become part of a team, you cease to exist as an individual.

Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.

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

You can't win if you don't play as a unit.

One of the many things I like about baseball is how it combines individual talent and teamsmanship.

The team came together. We're looking forward to the next race.

We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves.

Some actors don't want to, but I prefer to. I like to collaborate. Sometimes you have to keep it to yourself, and people want to do their own thing.

For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.

So I think we got together as the Academy to give ourselves that sort of responsibility and to play well.

We're all just playing our own game. I don't see it as a rivalry. We're just trying to play our best.

Sports teaches you to understand the meaning of a team. You need to be able to work with everybody; you don't have to be their best friend. You can experience the fun of competition and driving toward a common goal without pushing to bond in some major way with each individual on a project.

I love how the Mariners function as a team. That feeling is important to me.

Competition is for everyone.