If we sit here and think about what other teams are doing and the points game and all that, we’re going to go crazy, and it’s not going to help our game.
If I could change the science system, my prescription for changing the whole thing would be organising it around big goals and building teams to do it.
I don’t like to compare clubs or players from way back. It’s different today. Your ballparks are better. In the days when I played, we had eight teams in each league. Now you have more.
F1 is about the best drivers competing against each other for the best teams producing the best cars they can.
I want to inspire kids, and yeah, if that helps with expansion teams – in the MLS or anything like that – but my main goal is just to inspire. Try and inspire our youth.
Since we travel a lot as a team, I spend a lot of time on a plane where I like to play ‘Football Manager.’ I have been a soccer fan since I was 5 years old, so to be able to manage soccer teams is a lot of fun.
Man City are a top team, but there are a lot of top teams in this division because the Premier League is the best league in Europe.
Belgium have a very good team. There are dozens of teams that say we want to become the world champions.
The Florida State League was considered the top A-league back then. You played in the spring training parks of major league teams, traveled throughout some great cities in Florida, and the pay was the best in A-ball.
While most philanthropists tend to flock together and build their teams around friends, family, or others who happen to be retired or with a lot of free time on their hands, a great entrepreneur knows that success is directly related to the quality and talents of their team.
I’m a good special teams coach, and I can recruit.
In the teams I’ve been at, I’ve been really well received.
Instead of focusing the traditional planning cycles where companies benchmark their businesses against existing competition, teams need to be developed to foster internal change and disruption. Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.
Good third-down teams are teams that usually have success in this league.
F1, we have all sorts of teams with different characteristics. They operate in different countries, under different legislation and with their own ways of working.
People tend to work in teams, in a collaborative way, in an informal network. If you create an environment like that, it’s much more effective and much more efficient.
When you have a script, and you’re discussing what it can be, and who going to play what role, that’s a kind of like a fantasy football game. You can imagine these different dream teams interpreting these characters that only exist in your head.
When you play on bad defensive teams, you get labeled as a bad defender.
Who says a center can’t make the pass into the post? Michael Jordan, effectively, was a post player and you saw with the championship teams players able to do multiple things.
When there were just eight teams in each of the big leagues, I was always told, ‘It’s hard to come up, but it’s just hard to stay in the big leagues.’ That’s because there’s always somebody. The Cardinals had so many minor league clubs and had so many good ballplayers.
Among directing teams, you find a high percentage of brothers. You need the ability to compromise. With siblings, you’ve grown up with a pattern that, yeah, every once in a while you have to give in for the greater good, for the family collective.
I can do it all, and I want to do it all. Put me on special teams. Ask me to block. Hand off. Catching passes.
I think we have got the wood on South Africa, but that does not mean they are not a good team. They intimidate a lot of teams but we intimidate them. There is no disrespect for South Africa; they are a very good team.
You don’t have to find out what someone’s mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I’ve seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren’t happy.
I grew up watching the great Milan teams with the Dutch players.
I was the girl who got out of my athletic requirement by managing the boys’ sports teams. Which is pretty ingenious, because when I was a sophomore, I got a prom date out of it. That was really strong planning on my part.
Of course African teams are underachieving when you think of what their potential is.
I think on special teams… I want to be sound.
I wish there was a bar I could send opposing teams to and get them hammered or something – I could tell my buddies in New York to leave their places open or something. Playing for the Yankees, guys come at you extremely hard. I have to be ready or I’ll be embarrassed.
Shaquille and I kind of joke we were the Christopher Columbus of social media. We’re kind of out on a boat by ourselves going through these uncharted waters. But it’s become more understood, embraced and accepted, and now it’s pretty much expected by fans for athletes, leagues and teams to be there.
Teams ask me about my character, but until you sit down and talk to me directly, you might have image that’s portrayed in stories or headlines. But I love the game, I’m up front and honest, I know exactly what I’m about, and that’s the most important thing.
My father was a really good athlete, so his pop-ups really were sky high. Eventually I learned how to judge them properly and catch them well. It was great training for when I started to play on teams, which I did all through school.
Barcelona is one of the best teams in the world… so far, nothing has come to me, because if anything comes, it comes to my manager.
Too often in this world, the things you root for – whether sports teams or spouses to recover from horrible diseases – don’t quite pan out.
When I started playing, there were no teams and no structure, so I had to play with the boys. I get very emotional when I think about the humiliation that I’ve suffered playing football.
In my career, I played for four different teams in a lot of different systems, and it’s like learning another language.
United fans don’t care if the team only has 40 per cent possession as long as they are watching an attacking team. My experience was that the supporters understood that even our best teams, even the teams with Peter Schmeichel or Edwin van der Sar in goal, were going to concede goals.
People talk about you won four national championships. Well, I feel like we’ve had good enough teams to win eight. So I feel like we failed four times. I feel like I failed four times.
There will be ups and downs. Other teams will adapt to us, but everything will be OK in the end. We know we have to learn everything perfectly for this to work.
I basically apply with my teams the lean startup principles I used in the private sector – go into Silicon Valley mode, work at startup speed, and attack, doing things in short amounts of time with extremely limited resources.
It’s always tough to play against teams that bunker or ‘park the bus’ inside the 18-yard box, but we always try to focus on our game and how we can overcome the obstacles that the game presents to continue to get better and score goals.
Every player wants to play on the biggest stages in football. I have played for big teams. I know what it takes.
The Premier League is difficult. The small teams can beat the big teams.
What’s interesting about Laurel and Hardy is that in most comedy teams, there’s a straight man, and then there’s the funny guy. And with Laurel and Hardy, they’re both the funny guy.
The thing with NBA teams, a lot of times they just want to get you back on the floor to play, so as a player you’ve got to be very, very smart.
I have so many fond memories of the Tied Test, and I can’t wait to come back to Brisbane. One thing that stands out is that both teams stayed at the same hotel. We got to know each other so well. Some of my best cricketing friends were in that Australian team.
A lesson learned, both in the SEAL teams and as an entrepreneur, is that failure is sometimes a critical component of success.
A few years, there are teams that are just dominant over everyone. Those years are few and far.
The experience of shooting a film is about the script, the captain of the ship who is the director, and the way they push their actors and teams to give their best. It’s not about the language and the region.
If you look at the teams that mix and match their starting lineup a great deal, that sort of inconsistency frequently leads to inconsistency in performance.
I have memories of watching the Champions League as a kid in France. We all supported different teams and they were intense moments. Great memories.
Every team has problems. Championship teams have problems and whatnot.
You learn from playing against the best players and the best teams, and we’re going to keep fighting and figuring out ways to beat them.
I’ve seen teams where there are bad relationships in the locker room, but they can leave that aside and win on the field. For me, I’m not satisfied with any part of that.
I do my own analysis on the teams I am refereeing. I will know some of the personalities, the players who could be difficult customers in a scrum situation, the ones I am going to have to really work hard on early in the game to get what I want.
