Team Failure Quotes

When you have a bad season, 75 percent is the responsibility of the players, I really think so.

You can be the best manager in the world, but if the players don't trust you, it will never work.

Losing has to be awful. You can never get used to losing. That's one of the biggest downfalls to a lot of teams.

Del Bosque was axed by Madrid for failing to retain the Champions League in 2003 but his sacking triggered the start of a spell when they won nothing for four years and failed to get beyond the Champions League's last 16.

Every team requires unity. A team has to move as one unit, one force, with each person understanding and assisting the roles of his teammates. If the team doesn't do this, whatever the reason, it goes down in defeat. You win or lose as a team, as a family.

My God... What are the headlines going to be like on Monday if the Yankees don't make the playoffs?

I feel I let my team down today. My heart is bleeding for everybody else. I felt like I should have gotten it done today. That's how it is. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

The tragedy in sports is seeing a team beaten not by a better team, but by themselves.

We were so bad last year, the cheerleaders stayed home and phoned in the cheers.

There's been so many stories throughout the league where teams have started off poorly and ended up in the Finals. Or teams starting out great and not making the playoffs.

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.

And then I screwed up and the Colonel screwed up and Takumi screwed up and she slipped through our fingers.

On any given day a team can have a bad result.

No matter how much money you have or what kind of cocoon you live in, the reality is that you have lost a game of football and let England's fans down. We are bothered.

Most young quarterbacks are on the field because their team stinks.

If you buy too many bad players, you don't last in this game.

In college football, fans wallow in a culture of failure. Unless you root for Miami, you sadly wait for disaster to strike your team in a manner not seen outside of Fenway Park.

You have to make shots to win basketball games and we didn't do that. You also have to get back on defense, so it was a double-whammy.

It all relies on teamwork. We could be running fifth all day, and we come down pit road for the last stop and the pit crew messes up, then we all go down and not just them.

If things don't go well, the manager is on his way because it's such a blow if you drop into the lower divisions.

There has to be a certain amount of love just in order for you to survive together. I think a lot of groups have gone down the tubes because they were not able to relate to one another.

We, as a team, failed with 'Mister,' as the film failed in many aspects. I clearly know that my fans were deeply hurt, and that is the reason I told them during the audio launch that I will only do films that suit my age and image.

I believe all teams choke in certain situations.

You can have successful teams where people hate but deeply respect each other; the opposite (love but not respect among team members) is a recipe for disaster.