For me, it was a dream to play in the Premier League. I always wanted to be here because this league is very good, it has very good teams, and Manchester United is the best team in England.
I think I like the artistry of the game. I still get a lot of pleasure watching the good-quality teams play, where the movements of the players are coordinated. It’s almost ballet-like, although ‘ballet-like’ is a bit of an exaggeration.
It’s funny, but when there are dominant teams, there are a number of people who rail about the fact that they’re always seeing the Dallas Cowboys or the San Francisco 49ers or the Green Bay either in the playoffs or in the Super Bowl.
And I watch ‘Saturday Night Live’ religiously, I have since I was a little boy. I watch it basically like one of my favorite sports teams.
I was recruited by every school in the country for football and basketball. And an incident happened in high school, and all that was taken away. No other teams, no other schools were recruiting me anymore.
My best memories are because I was on teams I love – even going back to being a kid. Not just in the NBA.
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At the World Cup, most teams changed their style when they played us and maybe were more defensive. In the final, we didn’t know if Holland were going to do the same, but the important thing was we beat them in the end.
The real good teams and the real great teams find a way to win.
I played soccer when I was a kid. I started when I was 8 and played for 8 more years. I was pretty good. I used to train with Atletico Nacional, which is one of the most important teams in Colombia. I used to train every day.
From my experience, playing on some really good teams in the past, that’s No. 1, to pitch well and play defense.
I think that a lot of players and a lot of teams don’t think of contact lenses as being a part of that essential gear but it truly is. You want every competitive advantage you can find and obviously having great vision is one of those advantages.
That seemed to be the case with most of the teams based in the smaller towns – the fans were more rabid, and they wanted to literally kill the opposition.
The theatre always seems to be in trouble but always thriving. It’s deeply comical to me that we agonize about our crap football teams and indifferent Test sides when in front of our noses is a great world success story that no one’s interested in apart from those who work in it.
Teams do not make their debut in the first XI – individuals do – but it is the team that enables the individual to get the best out of himself. Football IQ, I call it, understanding roles and the team structure.
I feel like you always learn different things from different teams.
If I needed to know about a security exploit, I preferred to get the information by accessing the companies’ security teams’ files, rather than poring over lines of code to find it on my own. It’s just more efficient.
Obviously, the big teams create the bigger atmosphere around the stadiums.
Even the best teams can fail. Celebrities can fade. There is only One in whom your faith is always safe, and that is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And you need to let your faith show!
I don’t want to over generalize, but I believe that women are typically drawn to leadership styles that focus on consensus building, effective listening and working in teams. That’s certainly been my leadership style, and I think it’s been very successful.
All those teams I was on that were successful were the ones that everyone had love for each other and had fun. Things that seem minuscule – joking around, laughing, conversing, all those things that seem childish – that is what builds camaraderie.
There is hard work involved, and maybe many people wouldn’t like that. But for the best teams in the world who can do that without losing too many points, then it’s just great.
All of us that have teams want to pick the right people. I’ve thought a lot about that. In the NFL, we’ve got 13 scouts traveling the country. We’re trying to pick 22 year-olds coming out of college who will be successful in the NFL. It’s very hard to do. What I’ve learned is it’s always character first.
That desire to win is something that’s drummed into you at an early age in my country. In Argentina, you grow up watching great teams and important victories.
I participated on debating teams and in student government, and served as senior class president.
When I’m playing the 1-guard, teams do a great job of just loading up and preparing for my drives and preparing for my three-point shots.
Even companies like Baidu and Google, which have amazing AI teams, cannot do all the work needed to get us to an AI-powered society. I thought the best way to get us there would be creating courses to welcome more people to deep learning.
I ended up staying 10 years in Boston. It was nine as GM but 10 years there. That seemed about right: long enough to try to make a difference and try to contribute to winning teams and some championships.
My favorite teams are the Dallas Cowboys and the New York Jets.
I know of a few writers who are husband and wife teams.
I’m trying to look natural and not painted. I’m typically fighting hair and makeup teams because I’m always saying, ‘Can I wear less? Can I look natural and fresh?’
You realize it’s a business and that teams are going to do what’s best for them. That’s how it is. That’s what we sign up for as a Major League Baseball player.
That’s what good teams do right there: We come together – and go boom!
Just as sports teams recognize the potentially game-changing benefit of calling time-outs, failing to do so in matters of warfare is a surefire way to continue losing.
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When United play at home, they get some advantage that other teams don’t get. I think when you go to United, Madrid, Barcelona, or Milan, when the referees referee these kind of games, it’s always difficult to go against these kind of teams.
When I started doing improv in Chicago, for every five teams, one or two would have one woman.
Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams… but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.
A lot of people talk about the Fab Five, and they were wonderful, one of the best teams you’ll ever see in college basketball. But the ’89 team is the best one to ever play at Michigan in my opinion because they won the national championship. Winning a championship is winning a championship.
In Georgia it’s a little different because of the East Cobb program. It’s such a strong program that we see a lot of kids that come through here on a lot of different teams from across the country that come here to play in tournaments.
Over the years, I really focused on doing the best job I could, working hard, getting great results, and working with my teams.
It wasn’t like it is now. But for the types of teams we had, the fans were very good here. On some Thursday afternoon games, we’d get 25,000 fans. That was remarkable. This has always been a great Red Sox city.
For a long time, I was an assistant in the NFL to George Allen, and George was paranoid that other teams were cheating on him… that they were offering bounties, that they were wiring our locker room, that they were putting food poisoning into the pregame meal of the other team’s stars, stuff like that.
Baseball and its teams are proud of the sport’s long-standing role as a change agent in American culture and society.
I have to experience the Nokia products. I’m a major contributor to the design and the quality of the devices. I have a lot of feedback to provide the teams on that. But also I have to carry competitive devices. You have to understand the competition.
Horrible bosses may be one of the reasons why we decide to leave a company, but they can also teach us how not to lead teams when we have that responsibility.
Equalising performance between teams runs completely counter to the idea of F1 and would be very unfair for us.
I ran the Iditarod twice. I finished once. I came in 42nd or 43rd place out of 70 plus teams the first time, and I scratched 80 miles from Nome the second time. You can read about my experience in the race in my books ‘Woodsong’ and ‘Winterdance.’
We don’t have any kind of sponsors. The players invest themselves. They need money. They need resources… That’s why, in sports and teams, they have sponsors – in soccer, in the NFL. Everyone has sponsors who invest and help to pay daily expenses.
Growing up on an all-boys’ team wasn’t the easiest thing. I’d have guys come after me on the ice and just hit me because I’m a girl. I’d have parents heckling me from the stands, other parents not wanting me on the team, not making certain teams just because I was a girl.
First of all, I think it is not easy to win a title in the Premier League, as you have really good teams here.
I tell people in their careers, ‘Look for growth. Look for the teams that are growing quickly. Look for the companies that are doing well. Look for a place where you feel that you can have a lot of impact.’
