Teammates Quotes

“There is immense power when a group of people with similar interests gets together to work toward the same goals.”
― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

“I’ve worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down, and I will not let myself down.”
― Mia Hamm

“In middle school I played against you once. And lost. I was so frustrated that I continued practicing even after I retired... And then when I entered high school, hell yeah, I laughed. The guy I vowed to defeat no matter what was standing right in front of me as one of my own teammates. But now it's pointless to hold a grudge. Rather, I wanted to make you recognize me. (Takao Kazunari)”
― Tadatoshi Fujimaki

“We had grown into one another somewhere along the way. We were officially a team.”
― Shannon A. Thompson, Take Me Tomorrow

“Out ahead of them, Arkady began something very like a marching song, chanting lines answered by the other ferals, their voices ringing out across the sky, each to each. Temeraire added his own to the chorus, and little Iskierka began to scrabble at his neck, demanding, "What are they saying? What does it mean?"

"We are flying home," Temeraire said, translating. "We are all flying home.”
― Naomi Novik, Black Powder War

“Teamwork doesn't happen without good teammates.”
― Lance Loya

“Teammates...were fine things. Piling onto the bus before the game, edgy with shared nerves, egging one another on with the genial, meaningless phrase C'mon, you guys!, collapsing back into the same seats for the ride home—the sense of striving in accord had been a sweet part of high school. Possibly the sweetest. But the camaraderie had not survived graduation, or even the off-seasons. Her teammates, passing in the school corridors in winter or spring, were downshifted to nodding acquaintances who had once been close, that past connection floating off like cotton candy on the tongue.”
― Jean Hanff Korelitz

“Selfishness sinks ships: friendships, partnerships, relationships, championships, even leaderships. Like an iceberg tearing through the hull of an ocean liner, selfishness will inevitably send all of those ships plummeting to the depths of the abyss. Selfishness sinks ships.”
― Lance Loya

“However, more important to all of that: the players played the game as a true team. There are many teams in baseball, but not all play as a team. Many merely play as a group of talented athletes, which is a huge difference over the course of a long season.”
― Michael Delaware, The Art of Sales Management: Lessons Learned on the Fly

“When we cuss each other out, call each other the vilest names on earth, and put each other down with thoughtless cruelty, it is the only way we know and the only language we have to express our ardent love for each other.”
― Pat Conroy, A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life

“Always work enthusiastically.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Live by the team mean you trusted your team with your life.”
― Cindy Skaggs, Live By The Team

“My team." A Spiritual Humanist cleaner, an old mobster, an addled swamp rat, and an angry food columnist.
"We'll get 'em next time," Garth said between coughs.
"Wasn't all your fault," Joey said, trying to get his shirttail up to his eyes.
Go team, Shane thought, and pointed them in the direction of the Defender.”
― Jennifer Crusie, Agnes and the Hitman

“It is challenging to fly with eagles when you have been walking with turtles.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“My partner and I fully support one another. Lifting each other up to evolve into the highest versions of ourselves. We are the best teammates.”
― Robin S. Baker, Esotericism With an Unconventional Soul: Exploring Philosophy, Spirituality, Science, and Mysticism

“So, yes, they fought, but I never imagined consequences. Parents didn't split up back then. They worked it out. They stayed on the team.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day